Soil Degradation.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction / Julia Krümmelbein., Rainer Horn and Marcello Pagliai -- CHAPTER I SOIL STRENGTH, SOIL DEFORMATION AND SOIL REGENERATION -- Assessing soil degradation by using a scale-spanning soil mechanical approach: A review / Wibke Baumgarten and Rainer Horn -- Impact of Anthropogenic Load on Rheological Properties of Typical Chernozems (Kursk region, Russia) / Dolgor Khaydapova, Eugeny Yurevich Milanovskiy and Eugeny Victorovich Shein -- Elasto-Plastic Behaviour of Soil Aggregates and the Soil Matrix as a Function of Soil Structure and Clay Content in three Soils of Central Chile / Ignacio Fuentes, Oscar Seguel and Manuel Casanova -- Mean Weight Diameter and Distribution of Aggregates of a Constructed Soil in a Coal Mining Area in Southern Brazil, Cultivated with Different Gramineae Species / Lizete Stumpf, Eloy.A. Pauletto, L.F.S. Pinto, F.F. Fernandes, L.E.A.S. Suzuki, C.L.R. de Lima, L.C. Timm, T.S. da Silva and K.C. Haering -- Degradation Effects on Organic Carbon and Mechanical Strength within Aggregates from a Stagnic Luvisol Depending on Tillage Intensity / Anneka Mordhorst, Stephan. Peth and Rainer Horn -- Soil Susceptibility to Deformation in Different Agricultural Management Practices: Assessment from Water Retention Curve Characteristics at Low Suction / Guy J. Levy and Amrakh I. Mamedov -- Verification of Subsoil Compaction on Cable Construction Sites / Alexander Zink, Heiner Fleige, Stephan Gebhardt and Rainer Horn -- Evolution of Structural Properties of an Arable Soil after Compaction under Different Regeneration Pathways / Peter Weisskopf, Hans-Rudolf Oberholzer, Jan Rek and Thomas Keller -- Cycle of Soil Structure / Julia Krümmelbein and Rainer Horn -- CHAPTER II SOIL EROSION INDUCED DEGRADATION.

Assessment of Topsoil Structure Degradation in a Compost-Amended Silty Clay Loam Soil under Simulated Rainfall / Sergio Pellegrini, Maria Costanza Andrenelli, Stefania Simoncini and Nadia Vignozzi -- Arable Land Degradation with Special Focus to Water Erosion: A Serious Threat in the Czech Republic / Bořivoj Šarapatka, Patrik Netopil, Marek Bednář and František Pavlík -- CHAPTER III REGIONAL SOIL DEGRADATION STUDIES UNDER VARIOUS CLIMATIC AND LANDUSE SYSTEMS -- Salinity Levels of Soil and Water in a Mediterranean Coastal Wetland: the Pego-Oliva Marsh (Spain) / Eugenia Gimeno-García, Juan Antonio Pascual-Aguilar, José Luís Rubio and Vicente Andreu -- Soil Characteristics and Nutrient Distribution after 27 Years of Grazing Exclusion in Widou Thiengoly, Senegal / Sylvie Drahorad, Cécile Guillet, Sabine Miehe, Peter Felix-Henningsen -- Changes in the Physical Quality of an Andosol under Different Management Intensities in Southern Chile / José Dörner, Dorota Dec, Felipe Zúñiga, Rainer Horn, Ignacio López, Cesár Leiva and Jaime G. Cuevas: -- Soil Physical Capacity and Intensity Properties for Achieving Sustainable Agriculture in the Subtropics and Tropics: a Review / Douglas Rodrigo Kaiser, Miriam Fernandes Rodrigues, José Miguel Reichert, Dalvan José Reinert, Rainer Horn, Heiner Fleige and André Anibal Brandt.

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