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Status of the World’s Soil Resources. Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Southwest Pacific

Year of publication 2016

Pages 47 p.

Author McKenzie, N. J.;Land and Water Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-109004-6

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This is Chapter 15, "Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in North America," of the report Status of the World’s Soil Resources. The Southwest Pacific region includes the 22 island nations of the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia). The landscapes of the region are very diverse ranging from a large continental land mass through to tens of thousands of small islands across the enormous expanse of the southwest Pacific Ocean. There are extensi ve ancient flat lands through to some of the youngest and most tectonically active landscapes on the planet. Temperature and rainfall ranges are large because of the breadth of latitudes and elevations. As a consequence, the soils of the region are also diverse. The strongly weathered soils in humid tropical areas and the vast expanses of old soils across the Australian continent are particularly susceptible to disturbance and this is where some of the more intractable problems of soil managemen t occur today. Case studies for soil change are given for Australia, New Zealand and Atoll islands in the Pacific.

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Also available: Technical Summa ry of the Status of the World’s Soil Resources.

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