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The “genetic erosion” of the soil ecosystem

2013

Abstract This paper takes into consideration the influence of human activities on the loss of pedodiversity in a Mediterranean area due to large scale farming. In particular it examines the quantitative and qualitative soil changes in a period of 53 years (from 1955 to 2008) evaluating the loss of soil diversity at soil subgroups level of the USDA Soil Taxonomy system. The following indices were used: richness; Shannon’s diversity index; Simpson diversity index; Shannon’s evenness index; Simpson’s evenness index. In this case study, considering what we observed in time, the human intervention in soil transformation could increase the diversity in the landscape in an initial phase, but forwa…

New atlas consisting of some curious astronomical folders and many exquisite very latest land maps over the whole world : first presented according t…

Claudii Ptolomei Cosmographie

Istorie del suo tempo di Mons. Paolo Giovio da Como, vescovo di Nocera; tradotta per m. Lodovico Domenichi, et novissimamente ristampata, et corretta.

Renaissance work about the world known in that time, focusing particularly on italian events, with a geographic table of the mentioned places.The first part covers the period from 1494 to 1517.

Pausaniæ De veteris Græciæ regionibus commentarii.

Latin translation of the Periegesis of Pausanias, in which the topographical description of the Greek regions is narrated with an antiquarian and erudite taste, with long historical and geographical excursuses.