Hydrostructural pedology / Erik Braudeau, Amjad T Assi, Rabi H Mohtar
- Author
- Braudeau, Erik
- Published
- London : Iste ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Physical Description
- xiv, 166 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Assi, Amjad T. and Mohtar, R. H.
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction to Part 1 -- ch. 2 Inherent Problems of Soil Science -- 2.1.History of pedology -- 2.2.Modeling of water transfers in the soil: supremacy of pedotransfer functions -- 2.3.Absence of a unitary theory of the description of soil -- ch. 3 The Systemic Approach Applied to Pedology -- 3.1.The Bertalanffy project and Le Moigne's general system model -- 3.1.1.The general system theory and Cartesian precepts -- 3.1.2.Systemic representation: Le Moigne's two great ideas -- 3.2.The systemic description of the soil organization -- 3.2.1.Physical definition of a "system" -- 3.2.2.Graduation of spatial axes: the systemic description of soil -- 3.2.3.Systemic modeling of the operating system (OS) on axis III -- 3.2.4.The "Structural Representative Elementary Volume" (SREV) concept required for the systemic description of the pedon -- 3.3.Systemic physics of the organized soil medium defined on axis III -- 3.3.1.The thermodynamic system of the pedostructure -- 3.3.2.Equations of the hydrostructural equilibrium of the pedostructure -- 3.3.3.Determining hydrostructural soil parameters -- 3.3.4.Equations of the hydrodynamic functioning of the pedostructure -- 3.3.5.The Kamel® model of the hydrostructural functioning of a pedon -- 3.4.Systemic mapping of soil in the landscape -- 3.4.1.Hierarchical hydrofunctional mapping units of the landscape -- 3.4.2.The SIRS-Soils -- ch. 4 The General System (GS): General Model of Scientific Disciplines Related to the Study and Management of Natural Areas -- 4.1.The human system, system of study or management of a natural area, isomorphic to the general system -- 4.2.Natural systems, OSs of the GS -- 4.3.Information systems of human systems implemented for the study or management of natural systems -- 4.4.Hydrostructural pedology and its own spatial reference information system: the SIRS-Soils -- ch. 5 Emergence of a New Scientific Discipline: Hydrostructural Pedology -- 5.1.Where hydrostructural pedology fits into the natural sciences -- 5.2.Specificity of the hydrostructural pedology laboratory -- 5.2.1.Hydrostructural characterization of the pedostructure -- 5.2.2.Experimental analysis of the bio-soil association in the soil column -- 5.2.3.Simulation of processes at the scale of the pedon using a lysimeter -- ch. 6 Implications for Agro-environmental Sciences -- 6.1.A unitary theory on the systemic and thermodynamic approaches within the natural environment -- 6.1.1.Modeling in the natural environment and Cartesian precepts -- 6.1.2.Systematization, theoretical basis of the systemic approach -- 6.1.3.Theoretical and applied systemology -- 6.1.4.General Systems theory of the agro-environmental disciplines -- 6.1.5.Systemic thermodynamics -- 6.2.The new challenge to agro-environmental modeling -- ch. 7 Introduction to Part 2 -- ch. 8 Theoretical Recall -- 8.1.Pinpointing the problem -- 8.2.Modeling micro- and macro-water types by the shrinkage curve -- 8.3.New principle for determining the micro-and macro-water types using the retention curve -- 8.3.1.Micro/macro thermodynamic and hydrostructural equilibrium -- 8.3.2.Equations for the retention curve -- 8.3.3.Equations for the pF curve -- 8.3.4.Equations for the shrinkage curve -- 8.3.5.Equations for hydric conductivity -- ch. 9 Methods for Determining the Characteristic Parameters -- 9.1.Soil water retention curve "WRC" -- 9.1.1.Measured using the tensiometer (suction-based method) -- 9.1.2.Measured under air pressure on the porous plate press (pressure-based method), extending the WRC measurement beyond the 1,000 hPa tensiometric limit -- 9.2.The shrinkage curve -- 9.2.1.Case of non-sigmoidal shrinkage curves -- 9.2.2.Case of the sigmoidal shrinkage curves -- 9.3.The hydric conductivity curve of the pedostructure -- 9.3.1.Description of the Excel sheets -- 9.3.2.Procedure -- 9.3.3.Results.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781848219946
1848219946 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 159-163) and index.
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