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AGRICULTURAE
CONSPECTUS SCIENTIFICUS
Volume 64, No 3, 1999 (231-241)
REVIEW
Current Global and Local Issues and Problems Related to Pedological
Research
Zoltan RACZ
SUMMARY
In introduction, this
review briefly describes rich heritage of pedology in Croatia and the
late university professors and scientists who gave significant contribution
to this scientific discipline. The second section gives and overview of
the main sectors of fundamental and applied research (Fig. 1), their importance
and hurdles encountered by the pedologists in the recent times. The third
and forth sections discuss current issues of soil classification and standardization
of pedochemical analyses, in connection with the new World Reference Base
for Soil Resources (WRB). Table 1 shows reference soil groups as per WRB
and their correlation with local Croatian types of soil. New insight in
terra rossa genesis and its relict soils are given in more detail which,
in author's opinion, need separate classification. The standardization
problems have been elaborated on examples of different procedures for
determination of total capacity and base saturation of the adsorbent complex
with cations, as used in WRB, ISO standards and the Croatian pedological
practice. Before final selection, intercalibration should be carried out
because there are still new laboratory procedures.
KEY WORDS
pedology, World
Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB), soil genesis, laboratory analysis
standardization
Soil Science
Department
Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb
Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Received: July 20, 1999
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