1. Humusica 1, article 5: Terrestrial humus systems and forms ‒ Keys of classification of humus systems and forms
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Nathalie Cools, Bas van Delft, Herbert Hager, Paola Galvan, Roberto Zampedri, Klaus Katzensteiner, Anna Maria Testi, Giuseppe Concheri, Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Nicolas Bernier, Giacomo Sartori, Fabrice Bureau, Diego Pizzeghello, Mauro Tomasi, Jérôme Juilleret, Silvia Obber, Ulfert Graefe, Damien Banas, Andrea Vacca, Ugo Wolf, Sandrine Salmon, Linda Scattolin, Jean-Michel Gobat, Augusto Zanella, Cristina De Nicola, Rein de Waal, G. Nicolini, Fausto Fontanella, Raimo Kõlli, Serenella Nardi, Dylan Tatti, Silvia Chersich, G Serra, Dina Cattaneo, Roberto Menardi, Adriano Garlato, Jean-François Ponge, Vinicio Carraro, Michaël Aubert, Ekart Kolb, Andrea Squartini, Michael Englisch, Lorenzo Frizzera, Bernard Jabiol, Jean Brun, Franco Viola, Anna Andreetta, Alain Brêthes, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), AgroParisTech, MUSE – Science Museum of Trento, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Université de Neuchâtel (UNINE), Étude et compréhension de la biodiversité (ECODIV), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), Universita degli Studi di Cagliari [Cagliari], Chercheur indépendant, Università degli Studi di Firenze [Firenze], Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Bundesamt für Wald, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien [Vienne, Autriche] (BOKU), Office National des Forêts (ONF), ONF, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' [Rome], Institut für Angewandte Bodenbiologie GmbH (IFAB), Institute for Applied Soil Biology, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protection of the Veneto (ARPAV), Centro di Ecologia Alpina (CEALP), Fondazione Edmund Mach - Edmund Mach Foundation [Italie] (FEM), Université de Lorraine (UL), Normandie Université (NU), Servizio Parchi, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TeSAF), Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Unité de Recherches Animal et Fonctionnalités des Produits Animaux (URAFPA), and Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
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Water en Landgebruik ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Earth science ,Bos- en Landschapsecologie ,humus classification ,Soil Science ,Humus ,Humus classification ,Humus forms ,Humus systems ,Humusica ,Terrestrial humus forms ,Ecology ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Soil science ,[SDV.SA.SDS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study ,01 natural sciences ,Soil ,humus forms ,Bodem ,Soil, Water and Land Use ,[SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems ,Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA ,humus systems ,Forest and Landscape Ecology ,Vegetatie ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Vegetation ,Water and Land Use ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,15. Life on land ,humus ,Bodem, Water en Landgebruik ,Homogeneous ,040103 agronomy & agriculture ,Litter ,0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries ,Soil horizon ,Key (lock) ,Environmental science ,Vegetatie, Bos- en Landschapsecologie ,Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology - Abstract
International audience; This article is an as simple as possible key of classification of terrestrial (aerobic, not submerged) topsoils (organic and organic-mineral series of soil horizons). Based on the introduction exposed in Humusica 1, article 1, and using vocabulary and definitions listed in article 4, a classification is proposed for better understanding the biological functioning of the soil, partially disclosing the process of litter digestion. Five types of terrestrial topsoils, called terrestrial humus systems, are described and illustrated with the help of photographs. Within each humus system, 3–4 humus forms are also revealed, corresponding to similar series of soil horizons generated in a relatively homogeneous environment whose range of ecological factors is not so large to overstep and cause the genesis of another different humus system. The article ends with a figure that shows the relationship between Tangel and Amphi humus systems, and a dichotomous key of classification that one can easily print and bring in the field for practicing humus classification.
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- 2018
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