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SOIL PROTECTION Catalunya - the Balearic Islands / Principality of Andorra

 
 

soil protection (general information)

 

Vienna Soil Declaration

 

soil functions

sustainability criteria

degradation and control processes

soil protection criteria

soil quality indicators

soil maps

what is soil information used fort?

the purpose of soil maps

soil series and correlation

characteristics of a soils map

management and interpretation of soil information on a digital interface

Soil Series and Soil Types catalogue of Catalonia

presentation

criteria

soil Types (> 2010)

soil Series (1993 - 2009)

LINKS OF INTEREST

Sicieties of soil science

Associations

 

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Government institutions

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Publications

Maps

 

Environment

Soil classification

 

Soil morphology

Soil restoration

 

Processes

Analysis tools

 

Soil and arid zones

Edaphology teaching

 
 

  SOCIETIES OF SOIL SCIENCE

 

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Chinese

Mexican

 

Colombian

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  ASSOCIATIONS

Asociación Argentina de la Ciencia del Suelo

Asociación Española de Riegos y Drenajes

Association of Women Soil Scientists

International Fertilizer Industry Association

International Permafrost Association

World Association of Soil and Water Conservation

 

  INSTITUTIONS

Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET-MARM)  Spain

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Institució Catalana d'Estudis Agraris (ICEA)  Spain

Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA)  Spain

International Union of Soil Sciencese (IUSS)

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)  Unites States of America

 

  SOCIETIES

American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS)

American Society of Agronomy (ASA)

Crop Science Society of America (CSSA)

European Society for soil Conservation (ESSC)

International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)

International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMInet)

National Society of Consulting Soil Scientists (NSCSS)

Soil Water Conservation Society (SWCS)

Welcome to Academic Society HomeVillage

 

  GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS

Consejo Superior de Investigación Científica (CSIC)

International Council for Science (ICSU)

International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)

Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino (MARM)

Ministerio de Cultura (MCU)

Oficina Virtual del Espacio Europeo de Investigación y Movilidad

 

  PUBLISHING

Academic Press Trusted Scholarly Excellence

Blackwell Science

Elsevier

Masson

McGraw Hill

Mundi Prensa

Oxford University Press

Pearson

 

  MAGAZINES

Australian Journal of Soil Research

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

European Journal of Soil Science

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Plant and Soil Sciences Journals

Revista Edafologia

Soil and Tillage Research

Soil biology & biochemistry

Science

Soil Science

Soil Survey Horizons

Spanish Journal of Soil Science

 

  ELECTRONIC BOOKS

Alberta Agriculture and Food Home Page

Ciencias de la tierra y el medio ambiente

Desarrollo sostenible de tierras aridas y lucha contra la desertificación  FAO

FESLM An international framework for evaluating sustainable land management   FAO

Field Book for Describing and Sampling Soils  NRCS

Global Soil Resources  NRCS

Lecture Notes on the Major Soils of the World  FAO

National Land and Water Information Service  FAO

 

  PUBLICATIONS

Soil Survey Manual  NRCS

World Soil Resources  NRCS

A framework for land evaluation  FAO

Soil Under a Microscope Evaluating Soils in Another Dimension  NRCS

 

  MAPS

Distribution Maps of Dominant Soil Orders  USDA

European digital archive on soil maps of the world (EuDASM)

Geographic services of Catalonia  ICC

Land Resources, Management, Planning and Use  FAO

World Soil Resources Map Index  NRCS

 

  INFORMATION OF INTEREST

SatCat: Catalonia Satellite Image Server

 

  ENVIRONMENT

Activities of the European Union - Environment

EnviroLink Network

Environmental WebSite

European Comission Environment

European Environment Agency

Geo-Data Portal

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

Natural Resources and Environment

 

  SOIL CLASSIFICATION

Brazilian system of soil classification  SiBCS

Keys to Soil Taxonomy  USDA

Soil classification  Universidad de Granada, Spain

Soil classification  USDA

Soil classification Program  Universidad de Granada, Spain

Soils in Mississippi  Mississippi State University

The Canadian System of Soil Classification (3rd. edition)  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

The Twelve Soil Orders Soil Taxonomy  USDA

 

  SOIL MORPHOLOGY

 

  Soil Formation

  Carbonates in soils  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Soil: Concept and Training  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Soil clay formation  Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

  Soil morphology. Stoniness  Universidad de Extremadura, Spain

  Soil origin  Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

  Products of weathering  Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

  Micromorphology

  Argillo horizons Micromorphology  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Illuvial accumulations cassification  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Mcromorphology  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Soil micromorphology  University of East Anglia

  Soil micromorphology (2nd. part)  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Soil micromorphology references  Texas A&M University

  Soil Micromorphography  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  ¿What is soil micromorphology?  Universidad de Granada, Spain

 

  Soil Profile

  Phyllosilicate clay structure  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Soil profile description  Universidad de Extremadura, Spain

  Soil profiles morphology program  Universidad de Granada, Spain

 

  SOIL RESTORATION

  Land reclamation, rehabilitation and restoration  University of Alberta

  Soil Solarization  Alliant International University

  Restoration Techniques  San Diego State University

  Restoring Degraded Drylands  Convention on Biological Diversity

 

  PROCESSES

 

  Degradation

  Desertificación y Degradación del suelo  CICEANA

  Soil degradation  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Soil degradation  Enciclopedia "Ecología del Perú"

  Soil degradation, a problem incumbent on the society (I)  Entrevista

  The problems of soil degradation  EcoJoven

 

  Salinization

  Seawater intrusion and salinization  CRIE

  Soluble salt contamination  Universidad de Granada, Spain

 

  Contamination

  Contaminants in soil  Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

  Mineralogy and soil pollution processes  Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,
  Spain

  Soil contamination  CICEANA

  Soil contamination  Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

  Soil contamination  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Soluble salt contamination  Universidad de Granada, Spain

  Desertification

  Desertification  FAO

  Desertification  Ecologistas en Acción

  Desertification  Green Facts

  Desertification processes in a global change context  Universitat de València,
  Spain

  La desertificación en el norte de Chile  Universidad Católica del Norte de Chile

  National Program to Combat Desertification  Programagua

  Soil degradation as part of the process of desertification of Fuerteventura
  island
  Universidad de Murcia, Spain

  The desertification of Fuerteventura  Rincones del Atlántico

  ¿What is desertification?  ARIDnet

 

  ANALYSIS TOOLS

Mineralogical study of soil gravels interest  Universidad de Granada, Spain

Microanalysis of electron microscope with dispersive X-ray energy  Universidad de Granada, Spain

Optical mineralogy  Universidad de Granada, Spain

X-Ray diffraction  Universidad de Granada, Spain

 

  SOIL AND ARID ZONES

Desert and Arid Zones concept: Proposal and Reflections

Natural areas of Latin America

Soil and arid regions of the United States and Israel

Soils arid zone, semiarid and desertification

 

  EDAPHOLOGY TEACHING

Universidad de Granada

Universidad de La Laguna

Soil Science Society of America

 

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