Classification of Cultivated Soils in Japan
Classification of Cultivated Soils in Japan
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日本耕地的分类
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
0.4
通讯作者:
Y. Amano
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作者:
Y. Amano
Some descriptions on the classification of arable soils are found in a textbook for agricultural practices written by S. Doi early in the 17th century in the Edo period. However, the work of M. Fesca et al., started in 1882, seems to have been the prolog to systematic soil-surveys in Japan. A century has elapsed since the first soil map8 ,22> was published. The survey had covered about eighty percent of Japan by 1920. It laid much emphasis on nature of parent materials, from which survey methods proposed by Aso et al.6> were partly inherited, whereas succeeding pedologists0 , 14l were eager to reflect soil-forming factors and morphology to soil classification. Later, assimilating progress in soil science, a soil survey for the Fertilization-Improvement Program from 1953, 1,ijJ and a soil survey for the Soil Conservation Project from 19593> were carried out by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and prefectural authorities. The surveys had covered five-million hectares, or eighty-five percent of the cultivated land with the soil maps at a scale of one to fifty thousand until 1975. Some of the data were condenced in a soil map at a scale of one to two-million. 13 > A large number of local soil series were being used through the surveys. Necessity for the correlation among these soil series has been increasing among soil-map users. The current classification system 11,1-"l has been prepared to answer to the request. On the above-mentioned background, the objects of the classification are neither soils outside the agriculture nor soils in foreign countries but cultivated soils in J apan.11> Forest soils have another classification system.10> Soil properties reflect combined effects of genetic factors. However, these factors or soil-forming processes themselves are not suitable for use as differentiae. For the differentiation between soils are used morphological features or properties ·which can be observed and measured in the field. This permits greater uniformity to the classification as applied by a number of soil scientists.