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Original research article
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07 Jun 2016
Original research article |
| 07 Jun 2016
Arctic soil development on a series of marine terraces on central Spitsbergen, Svalbard: a combined geochronology, fieldwork and modelling approach
W. Marijn van der Meij
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V., Institute of Soil Landscape Research, Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Arnaud J. A. M. Temme
Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Institute for Alpine and Arctic Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Christian M. F. J. J. de Kleijn
Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Tony Reimann
Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Gerard B. M. Heuvelink
Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Zbigniew Zwoliński
Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Grzegorz Rachlewicz
Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Krzysztof Rymer
Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Michael Sommer
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V., Institute of Soil Landscape Research, Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- The role of forest fire severity on vegetation recovery after 18 years. Implications for forest management of Quercus suber L. in Iberian Peninsula M. Francos et al. 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.07.016
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Short summary
This study combined fieldwork, geochronology and modelling to get a better understanding of Arctic soil development on a landscape scale. Main processes are aeolian deposition, physical and chemical weathering and silt translocation. Discrepancies between model results and field observations showed that soil and landscape development is not as straightforward as we hypothesized. Interactions between landscape processes and soil processes have resulted in a complex soil pattern in the landscape.
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