Characteristics of the anthropogenic soils in the coastal disaster prevention forests and seaside parks in north-eastern Japan.

Abstract

In recent years, anthropogenic soils in forested lands have been of great interest. This is because the intensity of human influences for natural soil with forested lands is continuously increasing due to better land management, urban and industrial developments, and recovery works from several disasters with devastating damages. Human impacts have been considered a great factor for the formation of soil. Regarding the soil classification systems of natural soil with forested lands in Japan, there are two categories of soils, namely Immature Soils (Immature Soil) and Immature Soils (Eroded Soil). In this paper, we investigate and present the survey results of anthropogenic soils in the coastal disaster prevention forests and seaside parks in north-eastern Japan. We realized that the impacts of human influence like soil materials, construction methods, and contamination of some exotic artefacts for anthropogenic soil morphology were varied. The soil morphological information is useful for evaluating soil function and considering soil geneses in heavily anthropogenic environments.