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Status of the World’s Soil Resources. Chapter 7: The impact of soil change on ecosystem services

Year of publication 2016

Pages 58 p.

Author 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 7, "The impact of soil change on ecosystem services," of the report Status of the World’s Soil Resources.

Soils are now recognized to be in the ‘front line’ of global environmental change and we need to be able to predict how they will respond to changing climate, vegetation, erosion and pollution. Although only a thin layer of material at the Earth’s surface, soils like many interfaces play a pivotal role in regulating t he flow and transfer of mass and energy between the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. Soils help regulate the Earth’s physical processes such as water and energy balances, and act as the biogeochemical engine at the heart of many of the Earth system cycles and processes on which life depends. All these phenomena are discussed in this chapter.

The full report has been divided into sections and individual chapters for ease of downloading:

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

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