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Five tonnes of animal life can live in one hectare of soil.

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Obituaries to great soil scientists

Obituaries

Jules D’Hoore (1917-2017)

Jan Frans De Coninck (1926-2017)

Carlos C. Cerri (1946-2017)

Miroslav Kutílek (1927-2016)

Kanwar Lal Sahrawat (1941-2016)

Akira Tanaka (1924-2016)

Pál Stefanovits (1920-2016)

Emil Klimo (1930-2016)

Maria Alfredovna Glazovskaya (1912-2016)

Udo Schwertmann (1927 – 2016)

Fiorenzo Mancini (1922 - 2015)

Nyle C. Brady (1920 - 2015)

Joselito Arocena (1959-2015)

Marcel Jamagne (1931-2015)

Otto Spaargaren (1944-2015)

Gerard (Jerry) Hendrik Bolt (1925-2015)

Dan Hardy Yaalon (1924-2014)

P.H.T. Beckett (1928-2014)

D.J. Greenland (1930-2012)

C. Sys (1923-2009)

L.A. Sarmiento (1927-2009)

K.H. Hartge (1926-2009)

P.H. Nye (1921-2009)

P. Buringh (1918-2009)

P.M. Huang (1934-2009)

D. Righi (1943-2009)

Peter Burrough (1944-2009)

Hans van Baren (1936-2009)

Roel Oldeman (1942-2008)

Peter Bullock (1937-2008)

BT Kang (1932-2008)

A.J. Smyth (1927-2008)

S. Moskal (1921-2008)

Dom Luis Bramo (1909-2007)

G.S. Humphreys (1953-2007)

S.V. Mukherjee (1914-2006)

G. Aubert (1913-2006)

Yoshiaki Ishizuka (1907-2005)

Duncan Scott (1921-2005)

Richard Drees (1941-2005)

Rienk van der Ploeg (1941-2005)

Pavel Jambor (1938-2005)

Anna Romashkevich (1926-2005)

Eduard Muckenhausen (1907-2005)

Joseph Tinsley (1916-2004)

Harry Vine (1917-2004)

Michel Robert (1937-2004)

Wolfgang Flaig (1912-2004)

Ralph McCracken (1921-2004)

Wim Sombroek (1934-2003)

Stephane Henin (1911-2003)

Jan de Geus (1908-2003)

Hassan Hamdi (1912-2003)

Ernest Hallsworth (1913-2002)

S.V. Zonn (1906-2002)

Francis Hole (1914-2002)

Samarn Panichapong (1933-2002)

Regis Simard (1956-2002)

Tamirie Hawando (1944-2002)

Ray Isbell (1928-2001)

Emmanuel Servat (1922-2001)

Dumitra Teaci (1926-2001)

L.D. Vaidyanathan (1908-2000)

Roy Donahue (1908-1999)

Andres Aguilar Santelises (1946-1999)

Vukota Okiljevic (1925-1998)