The Architecture and Biology of Soils Life in Inner Space
The unaided human eye and visual cortex are restricted to being able to detect only a relatively narrow waveband of light, and have a lower spatial resolution of the order of one millimetre. Beyond the absolute surface, soils are opaque to such a waveband and hence humans cannot see into, or t...
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CABI
2014
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| Tóm tắt: | The unaided human eye and visual cortex
are restricted to being able to detect only a
relatively narrow waveband of light, and
have a lower spatial resolution of the order of
one millimetre. Beyond the absolute surface,
soils are opaque to such a waveband and
hence humans cannot see into, or through,
the soil matrix. Furthermore, whilst the fresh
biomass in soils typically exceeds many
tonnes per hectare, the greater majority of
such life is microscopic and hence invisible
to the unaided human eye, even when the
soil fabric is disintegrated. David Coleman
captured this notion appositely in the title of
his seminal review 'Through a ped darkly'
(Coleman, 1985), which captures the essence
of the challenge in visualizing soil organisms
whilst in their natural habitat. Visualizing
the spatial organization of soil systems, and
the life therein, requires adoption of particu-
lar techniques and technologies in order to
see through a ped rather less darkly, and pro-
vide forms of looking glass to reveal the
inhabited architecture of the underground. |
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