[see responsibilities under ‘Impressum’]

Barbara Wick

Humboldt University Berlin

Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture

Institute of Crop Science

Department of Soil Science and Site Science

e-mail:  Barbara.wick@agrar.hu-berlin.de

phone: +49-30-2093 8915

The online course is meant to:

1. support the students’ independent studies
   
2. to provide text-based computer-supported learning environments
   
3. to provide cross-media learning tools for students (online teaching, videos, texts, CD-ROM)
   
4. to acquaint students with e-learning techniques
   
   • web-based tutorials and chat rooms
     
   • provide links to other WebPages
     

The chapters presented here constitute the conceptional framework of the lecture and provide a basis for continuative discussions on land use and management strategies. The soil classification and description follows the ‘Lecture Notes on the Major Soils of the World’ (World Soil Resources Reports 94, FAO, 2001) as reference

1. Use of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB)
   
2. Mineral Soils conditioned by Parent Material
   
   • Andosols
     
   • Arenosols
     
   • Vertisols
     
3. Mineral Soils conditioned by Topography
   
   • Fluvisols
     
   • thionic Fluvisols (or acid sulfate soils)
     
4. Mineral Soils conditioned by a wet (sub) Tropical Climate
   
   • Ferralsols
     
   • Alisols
     
   • Nitisols
     
   • Acrisols
     
   • Lixisols
     
5. References and Material used