James G. Bockheim Libri

The book provides a comprehensive examination of soil distribution, utilizing National Resources Conservation Service databases to explore eight diagnostic epipedons and 19 subsurface horizons. Each chapter focuses on a specific horizon, detailing its taxonomic significance and the factors influencing its formation. Aimed at students and professionals in soil geography, ecology, and geology, it serves as both a textbook and a reference guide, enhancing understanding of soil genesis and its applications in mapping and classification.

Focusing on the unique soil characteristics of the Great Lakes region, this book explores soil formation, taxonomy, and geography, highlighting the area's pedodiversity. It emphasizes the significance of these soils for the 33 million residents and key industries reliant on the Great Lakes, which hold a substantial portion of the world's freshwater. Additionally, it addresses the urgent need for soil protection amid climate change and environmental threats, drawing on extensive research and USDA databases to provide a comprehensive inventory of the region's soils.

This is the first book solely devoted to Cryopedology, the study of soils of cold regions. The analysis treats Cryosols as a three-part system (active layer, transition layer, permafrost). The book considers soil-forming factors, cryogenic processes, and classification and distribution of Cryosols. Cryosols of the Arctic, Antarctica, and the high mountains are considered in detail. The chapters address cryosols and earth-system science, cryosols in a changing climate, cryosols databases and their use, and management of cryosols. The book is rich in color photographs and highlights the author’s 43 field trips to Antarctica, the Arctic, and alpine areas.

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive report on the soils of Wisconsin, a state that offers a rich tapestry of soils. It discusses the relevant soil forming factors and soil processes in detail and subsequently reviews the main soil regions and dominant soil orders, including paleosols and endemic and endangered soils. The last chapters address soils in a changing climate and provide an evaluation of their monetary value and crop yield potential. Richly illustrated, the book offers both a valuable teaching resource and essential guide for policymakers, land users, and all those interested in the soils of Wisconsin.