Soil management

Opterećenje: 45(P) + 0(L) + 15(A) + 0(PK) + 0(S) + 0(TJ) + 0(SJ) + 8(T)

Sadržaj predmeta: Lectures: 1. The roles and importance of soil in the management of terrestrial ecosystems. 2. Soil classifications; History of development and principles of soil classification. Soil classification in Croatia. American soil classification. WRB soil classification. 3. Automorphic soils; Physiographic and ecological-economic features undeveloped and humus-accumulating soils. 4. Physiographic and ecological-economic features of cambic, eluvial illuvial, anthropogenic and technogenic soils. 5. Hydromorphic soils; Physiographic and ecological-economic features pseudogley and fluvial and fluvial-humus and gley soils. 6. Physiographic and ecological-economic features of peatland i anthropogenic hydromorphic soils. Physiographic and ecological-economic features of halomorphic and subaquatic soils. 7. Soil geography; Pedon and elementary areas of the soil. Soil mapping. Pedogeographic characteristics of Croatia. Soil zonation on Earth. 8. Soil in the management of terrestrial ecosystems; Soil in spatial planning. Forest land management. Soil in agricultural production. Soil in landscaping, sports and recreation surface. 9. Soil and land productivity; Assessment of soil and land. 10. Increasing land productivity - tillage and water regime 11. Increasing land productivity - improvement of chemical properties soil; Fertilization - fertilizers and improvers. 12. Soil degradation and its protection measures; Anthropogenic soil erosion - introductory. 13. Soil degradation and its protection measures; Gravity, water, aeolian, tillage and harvesting soil erosion. 14. Soil degradation and its protection measures; Chemical degradation soil features. 15. Soil degradation and its protection measures; Soil compaction. Impact of fire on the ground. Soil protection in regulations. Soil monitoring. Laboratory exercises: 1. Determination of the granulometric composition in the mineral part of the soil (standard ISO 11277) 2. Determination of stability of structural microaggregates (Škorić, 1982) 3. Determination of soil plasticity (in accordance with ASTM D4318-10, 2010) 4. Determination of the share of organic and total carbon (in accordance with ISO 10694, 1995) and total nitrogen (according to ISO 13878, 1998) dry burning 5. Determination of cation exchange capacity (in accordance with ISO 11260, 1994) 6. Extraction of trace elements soluble in gold ore (in accordance with ISO 11466, 1995) 7. Determination of macro- and micronutrients in the soil by the extraction method Mehlich-3 8. Determination of water retention characteristics of the soil (in accordance with ISO 11274, 1998) 9. Determination of water permeability of the soil (filtration of water through the soil) Field work: 1. Characteristic soil associations and their features in integral management of the area (e.g. forest administration, county, watershed area, protected nature area, etc.)