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This book examines the effects that land-use changes (notably agricultural intensification, logging, soil erosion, urbanisation and mining) have on soil characteristics and processes in tropical and savannah environments. It covers a range of geographical regions and environments as impacts of land use change are often site specific. The effects of land use change on various aspects of the soil ecosystem from both a chemical and biological perspective will be examined.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Land-use change impacts on soil processes in tropical and savannah ecosystems: an introduction. 2. Microbial responses to land-use change 3. Effects of changing land use on biochemical and microbial parameters in soils of the humid tropics. 4. Evaluating the impact of oil palm agriculture on soil microbial communities. 5. Dynamics of microbial diversity, composition, and distribution in soil and rhizosphere as potential bioindicators of tropical forest conversion to soybean cultivation in Brazil. 6. How does conversion to oil palm affect soil microbial community responses to drought? 7. Change in soil chemical properties under plantation crops 8. Changes in soil properties of a tropical island with sugar cane cropping. 9. Soil properties under Acacia mangium plantations in Sabah. 10. Below ground carbon storage in young Tectona grandis plantations in Western Panama. 11. Regional and vertical distribution of soil carbon stocks in secondary tropical dry forests. 12. Soil erosion and/or changes in soil fertility following land-use change 13. Erosion and sedimentation effects on soil. 14. Acidification of tropical soils under forest and continuous cropping. 15. Soil fertility changes in agricultural plantations in the tropics. 16. Pastoralism and soil quality in the Kalahari. 17. Urbanisation and soil nutrient fluxes: challenges and opportunities for African cities 18. Other land-use changes 19. Evidence of gold-mining mercury contamination of Amazonian soils: anthropogenic versus natural origin, accumulation, and mobility of mercury in French Guyana soils. 20. Synthesis: Land-use change impacts on soil processes in tropical and savannah ecosystems: a synthesis
About the author
Francis Q. Brearley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Andrew D. Thomas, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Summary
This book examines the effects that land-use changes (notably agricultural intensification, logging, soil erosion, urbanisation and mining) have on soil characteristics and processes in tropical and savannah environments. It covers a range of geographical regions and environments as impacts of land use change are often site specific.
