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Humus and Soil Biodiversity Meeting in Sardinia (Cagliari, June 20-24, Italy 2007):

• presentation and discussion around the new key of classification of the humus forms of the Référentiel Pédologique Français 2007;
• observation and description of some typical humus forms in Mediterranean forest ecosystems;
• opening a section of Mediterranean humus forms in the European system of classification;
• creating a reference system for humus forms and soil biodiversity across Europe.

Programm of the Meeting

Organizing staff: Augusto Zanella (Università di Padova – I): augusto.zanella(at)unipd.it
Andrea Vacca and Gianluca Serra (Università di Cagliari – I)

July 2003, first meeting and birth of the Humus group at "Centro di Ecologia Alpina di Trento" (Central Alps, Italy). Goal of the meeting: let speak all together the European specialists of humus in order to find a common reference of classification of the top soil. Creation of the three commissions Classification, Vocabulary and Diffusion.

July 2004: Meeting of the commission Classification at BOKU University, Vienna, Austria. Elaboration of the first draft of European classification of the terrestrial humus forms. Presentation of this classification at the EUROSOIL 2004 Freiburg http://www.bobenkunde.uni-freiburg.de/eurosoil);

July 2005: Meeting of the whole group at Centro Studi per l’Ambiente Alpino (Oriental Alps, Italy). First draft of a European classification of the terrestrial and semiterrestrial humus forms.