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Camargo,Flavio A. de Oliveira; Alvarez V.,Víctor Hugo; Baveye,Philippe C.. |
The present essay is meant to provide some background on the evolution of the soil science community in Brazil, since its inception, to describe its current situation, and to outline a number of opportunities and challenges facing the discipline in decades to come. The origin of Brazilian agronomy dates back to the beginning of the 19th century as a subdiscipline of botany, and its association with chemistry would later establish it as a science. In the middle of the 19th century, agricultural chemistry was born as a result of this association, leading to the establishment of edaphology, a branch of Soil Science. Another branch of Soil Science, known as pedology, was established as an applied and scientific knowledge in Brazil during the middle of the 20th... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Edaphology; Pedology; Brazilian Soil Science Society; Retrospective and perspective. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832010000300001 |
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