Steps towards an ecology of landscape: The pedo-stratigraphy of anthropogenic dark earths

Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 33-83

  Arroyo Kalin, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9031-8_3     Document Type: Chapter

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