The East African contribution to the formalisation of the soil catena concept
The East African contribution to the formalisation of the soil catena concept
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东非对土壤链概念正式化的贡献
DOI：
10.1016/j.catena.2019.104291
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Borden R
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作者：
Borden R
土壤链的概念最早由杰弗里·米尔恩（Geoffrey Milne）和他的同事于20世纪30年代在东非明确提出。它已被广泛采用和应用于土壤调查，并继续在土壤和其他领域的科学是非常有价值的概念表征广泛的模式，其中独特的协会土壤和植被始终位于特定的斜坡位置。在土壤研究的主流之外的一个领域的概念的正式化似乎是由于结合了非常明显的红色斜坡土壤俯瞰黑暗的山谷粘土在东非广泛的大草原，再加上一组接受和合作的土壤科学家在一个支持性的制度环境。这个概念通常被认为是该小组的协调员杰弗里·米尔恩提出的，但我们也指出，几位同事和朋友也做出了贡献。我们总结了米尔恩和他的同事在乌干达，肯尼亚和坦噶尼喀地区（现在的坦桑尼亚）的一些早期土壤链的特点。甚至在开始时，人们就认识到，链状结构并不是普遍适用的，母体材料的异质性可以超越链状结构。连环在土壤科学中迅速而广泛地被采用，这种扩散导致了定义的扩大，现在有几种类型的土壤模式被称为连环。这一概念也已经扩展到土壤科学之外，并被生态学家、地貌学家和水文学家等所使用。它仍然是土壤科学和生态学中具有巨大解释力和教育力的范例。
The concept of the soil catena was first explicitly formalised by Geoffrey Milne and his colleagues in East Africa in the 1930s. It has been widely adopted and applied in soil survey and continues to be of great value in soil and other field sciences The concept characterises widespread patterns in which distinctive associations of soils and vegetation are consistently located in specific slope positions. The formalisation of the concept in an area well outside the mainstream of soil research appears to have been due to the combination of highly visible recurrent patterns of red slope soils overlooking dark valley clays in East Africa’s extensive savannahs, together with a group of receptive and collaborative soil scientists working in a supportive institutional environment. The concept is often attributed to Geoffrey Milne, the group’s coordinator, but we show that several colleagues and friends also contributed. We summarise some of the early soil catenas characterised by Milne and his colleagues in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika Territory (now Tanzania). Even at the beginning, it was appreciated that the catena was not universally applicable and that heterogeneity of parent materials can override catenary patterns. The catena was quickly and widely adopted in soil science, and this diffusion has led to some broadening of the definition, and several types of soil pattern are now designated as catenas. The concept has also spread beyond soil science and is used by ecologists, geomorphologists and hydrologists amongst others. It continues to be a paradigm of great explicative and educational power in soil science and ecology.
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发表时间：
1949
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作者：
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DOI：
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