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Soils of Cerrados, the Brazilian Savannas
Cerrados are the savanna-like vegetation of central Brazil. The first accounts on Cerrado soilsCerrado soils date back to the 1950´s, but increasing...
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The Legacy of Pre-Columbian Fisheries to Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in the Modern Amazon
The relevance of local ecological knowledge to conservation and development agendas is gaining momentum, and the Amazon biome features as one of the...
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The Geological, Geomorphological, Climatic, and Hydrological Background of Tropical Regoliths and Hostile Subsoils: The Brazilian Landmass
In this chapter, we first describe the global nature of tropical regoliths, showing the remarkable differences with temperate latitudes counterparts....
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Soils from Brazilian Amazonia
The Brazilian Amazonia region can be conveniently separated into 11 sectors, which represent large pedoenvironments at a continental scale. In a...
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The Making of Brazilian Soilscapes: A Geosystemic Vista on Neotropical Pedology
We present an integrated overview of how soils in Brazil are interwoven with the geological and geomorphological aspects at the most important...
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Tropics with Year-Round Rain
The tropics with year-round rain surround the equator northward and southward, extending roughly to the Tropic of Cancer (23°N) and the Tropic of...
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Soils of Pampa Gaúcho, the Mixed Prairies of Southern Brazil
The Mixed PrairiesPrairies soils region of southern Brazil, popularly known as “Pampa Gaúcho”, constitutes one of the most important and exceptional...
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The Soil Regions: A Framework for Stratifying the Brazilian Soilscapes
We defined the basic soil regions that will be treated in each individual book chapter, encompassing a division based on general landforms, climate,...
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Soils of Pantanal: The Largest Continental Wetland
The Pantanal is a large tectonic depression located between the Andean slopes and the Brazilian Central PlateauBrazilian Central plateau, and the...
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Semi-arid Soils of the Caatinga Biome of Northeastern Brazil
Northeastern Brazil possesses a wide variety of environments, soils, substrates, and climates, although semi-arid conditions prevail in the core area...
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Soil–landscape relationship in a sandstone-gneiss topolithosequence in the State of Amazonas, Brazil
The soil position in the landscape reveals its formation history. Landscapes combine surface features and subsurface components (parent material) of...
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Introduction
The WRB is an international soil classification system. It is edited by the Working Group WRB of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS). The...
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Soils of the Coastal Tablelands Under Atlantic Forest (Tabuleiros Costeiros)
The Coastal Tablelands (CT) or Tabuleiros Costeiros are formed by the extensive coastal sedimentary strip, along a north–south direction, with a...
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Soil Development in the Eastern Hardveld
Variations in the nature and properties of soilsSoil (pedodiversity) on the Late Neogene hilly dryland and QuaternaryQuaternary erosional and...
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Soils of Campos Rupestres (Rupestrian Grasslands) of the Old Brazilian Mountain Ranges
Although there is a large difference in substrate and climate, all Campos Rupestres share common characteristics, which allow them to be grouped as a...
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The Po Plain Loess Basin (Northern Italy): Scientific Values, Threats, and Promotion Opportunities
Geoheritage studies periodically propose assessment methodologies addressed to quantify the value of sites of interests towards geoconservation...
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Zonal Vegetation of the Tropical Zone with Summer Rain
In the tropics with summer rain that have a pronounced dry period during the cooler season, a mosaic of trees, shrubs and grassland (savannas)...
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Soil properties and geomorphic processes influence vegetation composition, structure, and function in the Cerrado Domain
BackgroundThe Cerrado of central Brazil—the world’s largest Neotropical savanna – is comprised of a mosaic of highly heterogeneous vegetation growing...
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Soils and landscapes of Marajó island, Brazilian Amazonia: Holocene evolution, geoarchaeology and climatic vulnerability
The Brazilian territory has a very extensive coastline, with more than 7500 km, and the largest and complex fluvio-marine archipelago on the planet,...
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The Middle-Upper Jurassic unconformity in the South Iberian Palaeomargin (Western Tethys): a history of carbonate platform fragmentation, emersion and subsequent drowning
A wide diversity of processes occurred during the fragmentation of the shallow carbonate platform of the Middle Jurassic in the South Iberian...
