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Klappentext Soils of South Africa is the first book in seventy years that provides a comprehensive account of South African soils. Zusammenfassung Soils of South Africa is the first book in seventy years that provides a comprehensive account of South African soils. It should interest students and researchers in the earth! environmental and biological sciences! as well as environmental practitioners! farmers! foresters and civil engineers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction to the Soil Groups and the Naming of Forms and Families; 1.1 The key to soil groups; 1.2 Description of soil groups; 1.3 Descriptive nomenclature for soil forms and families; Part II. The Soil Groups: Distribution, Properties, Classification, Genesis and Use; 2.1 Organic soils; 2.2 Humic soils; 2.3 Vertic soils; 2.4 Melanic soils; 2.5 Silicic soils; 2.6 Calcic soils; 2.7 Duplex soils; 2.8 Prodzolic soils; 2.9 Plinthic soils; 2.10 Oxidic soils; 2.11 Gleyic soils; 2.12 Cumulic soils; 2.13 Lithic soils; 2.14 Anthropic soils; Part III. Animals in Soil Environments; 3.1 Termites; 3.2 Termite - and ant-eating animals (myrmecophages); 3.3 Earthworms; 3.4 Golden moles; 3.5 Rodents; 3.6 Honey badger; 3.7 Insects and spiders; 3.8 Birds; 3.9 Large herbivores; 3.10 Elephants, trees and termites; Part IV. Profile descriptions and analytical data; References; Glossary; Appendix: Criteria for generating distribution maps for soil groups; Index.
