Plaggen soil or plaggic anthrosol is a type of soil created in parts of northwest Europe in the Middle Ages, as a result of so-called "plaggen" agriculture...

suitable quality and good drainage from the soil. Arable land Plaggen soil Shifting cultivation Soil contamination Soil life Terra preta Cation-exchange capacity...

industrial age, Borne was an agricultural community, characterised by plaggen soil and extensive cattle farming. The main crops were rye and buckwheat....

A soil horizon is a layer parallel to the soil surface whose physical, chemical and biological characteristics differ from the layers above and beneath...

Stickhausen podsol soils predominate, usually in wet locations. They are mostly on hardpan but their yield has been improved by the use of plaggen over the centuries...

Pedodiversity - Pedology - Permeability (earth sciences) - Petrichor - Plaggen soil - Plainfield (soil) - Planosol - Plough pan - Podzol - Pore water pressure - Porosity...

The higher-lying Esch terrain was improved by fertilizing it with plaggen soils taken from the rich pastures. Alongside the keeping of livestock, which...

soils to their soil classification systems including Brazil, Germany, Canada, Poland and China. They are known by many terms including: Plaggen soils...

This was achieved by the regular removal of the turf (a method known as Plaggen), which was used as hay for the pens of the moorland sheep, the Heidschnucken...

heath landscape remained, a countryside that was further devastated by plaggen agriculture. During the 20th century much of the area to the southwest...

could then be extensively cultivated. In addition the cut, grass sods or plaggen were able to be used to fertilise the surrounding fields (Plaggendüngung)...

arose anthropogenically through overexploitation of forests, burning, plaggen cutting and grazing - only exists today in fragments in the area around...

Heidschnucke. Where that is not sufficient, machines are also used in the plaggen cultivation of the heath. Like other parts of the Lüneburg Heath the Südheide...

of Wursten in order to gain turf, firewood, timber and the fertilising plaggen. Thus the demesne expansion posed a massive threat for the material survival...