LEAD CONVENER:
M. BRONNIKOVA – Institute of Geography, Ruussian Academy of Sciences, Department of Soil Geography and Evolution, Moscow, RUSSIA
CO-CONVENERS:
E. SOLLEIRO REBOLLEDO – Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Institute of Geology, Mexico City, MEXICO
F. SCARCIGLIA – Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Arcavacata, ITALY
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Session of the IUSS Comission 1.6 Paleopedology
The motto of the section is “The past creates the present, the present creates the future”. Soil development is dictated by soil forming factors and their changes in time which are usually triggered by climatic change and/or human impacts. Contemporary soils and soil cover cannot be wholly understood without comprehending the history of soils: their heritage based on former developments of environment and soil forming processes. At the same time, the knowledge of the past and understanding of the present of the soils and their environmental backgrounds can contribute to understanding the future of soil systems and their environment both in local and global contexts.
Thus, the section welcomes all the contributions devoted to paleosols or paleofeatures in contemporary soils especially concerned in the explanation of nowadays soils and environments and prognoses of their future developments.
A special focus of this section is the retrospective analysis of soil organic and inorganic carbon with paleoenvironmental change, and its potential contribution to CO2 emission and sequestration in changing environments.
KEYWORDS:
1. paleosols
2. paleofeatures
3. paleoenvironment
4. soil memory
5. soil carbon
