Purpose The sustainable use and management of global soils is one of the greatest
challenges for the future. In the urban ecosystem, soils play an essential role with their …

Soils formed in technogenic parent materials are proliferating, and their pedogenesis
remains inadequately understood. On investigation of soils formed in various technogenic …

Abstract Thermal (< 1000° C) and smouldering (600–1100° C) remediation strategies
potentially remove significant quantities of persistent organic pollutants from contaminated …

Efficient afforestation programs are crucial to limit soil degradation in various arid and semi-
arid ecosystems. However, the success of these programs is dependant to the plant type …

Purpose Pedogenesis is a set of steps which leads to the formation and evolution of soils
under pedogenetic factors and processes (eg, aggregation, weathering, transfer). To …

En 2050, les modèles montrent qu'il faudra nourrir 2, 3 milliards de personnes de plus à
l'échelle planétaire (Guillou et Matheron 2011). Ce défi parait être de taille. Afin d'y parvenir …

E:\TOPICOS 9 - 12 de junho\CAPI Page 1 Tópicos Ci. Solo, 9:1-20, 2015 1 Technosols of
mining areas TECHNOSOLS OF MINING AREAS Guillaume Echevarria(1) & Jean Louis …

The large diversity of metabolic capacities and the high genetic plasticity of microorganisms
allow them to degrade virtually all organic compounds of natural or anthropogenic …

Purpose Cities are hotspots of consumption of matter, energy, and water and hotspots of
production of wastes, which are also secondary resources. Nutrients such as phosphorus …

Le «topsoil» comme outil de restauration écologique des terrains miniers dégradés,
consiste à récupérer la couche de sol naturellement riche en matières organiques …