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BIOL 2110

Forest Soils and Water I

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Canadian Soils: An Introduction to Soil Science, and the Canadian System of Soil Classification (CSSC), 3rd Edition
  • Laboratory : No lab meeting this week
  • The soils around us (text )
  • Intro to soil classification (CSSC )
  • Laboratory Soil sampling on campus: leave from the NRMT Greenhouse
  • Soil formation (text )
  • Physical properties of soil (text ), Soils and water (text )
  • Laboratory : No lab meetings this week: National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is
  • Soil roles in global biogeochemical cycles of water and carbon
  • Soil carbon cycling and organic matter
  • (text )
  • Laboratory : Soil moisture and bulk density part II
  • Soil organic matter and carbon determination
  • Laboratory : Soil organic matter and carbon determination II
  • Soil solution chemistry
  • Laboratory
  • Nutrient cycling in soils (text )
  • Soil biodiversity and ecology (text ) Soil acidification and pollution (text and 16
  • Laboratory : Litter decomposition, Soil respiration and fauna extraction (outdoors)
  • Canadian forest soils: Brunisols, Luvisols, and Podsols (portions of CSSC and text

Readings

  • Digging into Canadian Soils: An Introduction to Soil Science. (2021, edited by Krzic, Walley, Diochon, Paré, and Farrell; ISBN 978-0-88880-668-0). It is an open access open-source text published by the Canadian Society of Soil Science and is available: Note that the instructor is the lead author on Chapter 6 and Lakehead Earth Sciences Prof. Amanda Diochon is one of the book editors.
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