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By Costanza Calzolari (auth.), Edoardo A.C. Costantini, Carmelo Dazzi (eds.)
The Soils of Italy is the 1st accomplished ebook on Italian pedology in seventy years. benefiting from the authors’ huge event and of the main up to date details and know-how, this e-book treats the most soil kinds of Italy, their diffusion, their features, ecological use, and the threats to which they're subjected in the course of centuries of in depth administration. It additionally offers with destiny situations of the relationships among soil technological know-how and different disciplines, similar to city improvement, medication, economics, sociology, and archaeology. the outline of the soils is followed by way of a whole set of knowledge, photographs and maps, together with benchmark profiles. components of soil formation also are taken care of, utilising new, unpublished facts and embellishments. The ebook additionally encompasses a historical past of pedological study in Italy, spanning over a century.
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Fig. 7 Precipitation seasonality (1960–2008). 5 Climatic Regions of Italy Following, as a reference, the climatic classification suggested in the georeferenced soil database for Europe11 (Finke et al. 1998) and its most recent updating (Hartwich et al. 2006) in Italy there are 14 of the 35 climatic regions occurring in Europe. 0)’’ is published by the Federal Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), in partnership with the Joint Research Center (JRC, Ispra). 2, Fig. 10). Temperate climates dominate the Alps and the Northern Apennines; they are as follows: T1-temperate continental climate influenced by mountains, T2-temperate subcontinental influenced by mountains, T3-temperate to warm temperate subcontinental, partly arid, T4-temperate mountainous.
The average snow cover duration is 200 days or more, according to the elevation. On the Apennines instead snow pack is between 100 and 350 cm, on average, and the mantle generally persists no more than 100 days, apart from the highest peaks. 22 E. A. C. Costantini et al. 1 Long-term values of characteristic climatic and pedoclimatic parameters for the whole Italian territory Parameter Mean Min. Max. St. Dev. 6 Values obtained from the raster spatialization reported Fig. 3 Long-term mean annual air temperature (1960–2008) 2 Climate and Pedoclimate of Italy 23 Fig.
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