Scope 

Geoderma - the global journal of soil science - welcomes authors, readers and soil research from all parts of the world, encourages worldwide soil studies, and embraces all aspects of soil science and its associated pedagogy. The journal particularly welcomes interdisciplinary work focusing on dynamic soil processes and functions across space and time. 

Instructions for authors 

Geoderma aims to stimulate cooperation and understanding among workers in the different fields of soil science by bringing together papers from the entire field of soil research rather than emphasizing any single sub-discipline. The journal publishes primary studies, reviews as well as scientific correspondence with respect to all types of soils, including agricultural, forest, and urban soils. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary work focusing on soil processes and functions across space and time. In order to facilitate extrapolation of published results, we strongly encourage our authors to include a soil classification according to the World Reference Base for Soil Resources and, if appropriate, a published national classification system. 

Original research papers (Regular Papers)
Review articles
Short Communication
Letters to editor
Discussions papers

Editors-in-Chief
Jan Willem van Groenigen
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands Email Jan Willem van Groenigen
Yvan Capowiez
French National Institute for Agricultural Research Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Avignon cedex 9, France Email Yvan Capowiez
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Technical University of Munich Research Department Ecology and Eco-System Management, Freising, Germany Email Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
David Laird
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States Email David Laird
Alex McBratney
The University of Sydney, Fac. of Agriculture & Environment, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Email Alex McBratney
Budiman Minasny
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Email Budiman Minasny
Cristine Morgan
Texas A&M University College Station, United States Email Cristine Morgan
Naoise Nunan
National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France Email Naoise Nunan
Associate Editors
Diego Abalos
Aarhus University Department of Agroecology, Tjele, Denmark Email Diego Abalos
Alberto Agnelli
University of Perugia Department of Agricultural Food and Environmental Sciences, Perugia, Italy Email Alberto Agnelli
Barbara Cade-Menun
Swift-Current Research and Development Centre, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, CanadaEmail Barbara Cade-Menun
Mariluz Cayuela
Center for Edaphology and Applied Biology of the Segura River, Murcia, Spain Email Mariluz Cayuela
Kristin Piikki
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Department of Soil and Environment Skara, Skara, Sweden Email Kristin Piikki
Cornelia Rumpel
Environments Transfers and Interactions in Hydrosystems and Soils, Paris, France Email Cornelia Rumpel
Daniel Said-Pullicino
University of Turin Department of Agriculture Forestry and Food, Torino, Italy Email Daniel Said-Pullicino
Jing Song
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Email Jing Song
Cathelijne Stoof
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands Email Cathelijne Stoof
Matthew Tighe
University of New England, Armidale, Australia Email Matthew Tighe
Karen Vancampenhout
KU Leuven Association, Leuven, Belgium Email Karen Vancampenhout
Editorial Board
G. Angst
Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences, ?esk� Bud?jovice, Czech Republic
L.H.C. Anjos
Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, SEROPEDICA, Brazil
D. Arrouays
Info Sol Service Unit, Ardon, France
Y. Audette
University of Guelph School of Environmental Sciences, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
V. Bagarello
University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
A.J. Bento-Gonçalves
University of Minho Department of Geography, Guimaraes, Portugal
R. Bhattacharyya
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
T.F.A. Bishop
The University of Sydney, Fac. of Agriculture & Environment, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
A. Blaud
Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
E. Bonifacio
University of Turin, Department of Agicultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Grugliasco (TO), Italy
O.K. Borggaard
University of Copenhagen Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Frederiksberg, Denmark
D.J. Brown
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States
G. Brown
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Forests, COLOMBO, Brazil
K.R. Brye
University of Arkansas, Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
T.G. Caldwell
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States
M. Camps-Arbestain
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
L. Celi
University of Turin, Torino, Italy
S. Chakraborty
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
V. Chaplot
Institute of Research for Development, Laboratory of Oceanography and Climate, Paris, France
P. C. Chivenge
International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines
G. Corti
Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
E.A.C. Costantini
Research Centre for Soil Science and Agrobiology, Firenze, Italy
I. Cousin
Soil Science Research Unit, Orleans, France
D.D. Davis
Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama, United States
J.A.M. Demattê
University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
J. Dieckow
Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
M. Egli
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
R. Ellerbrock
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Muncheberg, Germany
D. Field
The University of Sydney Institute of Agriculture, Eveleigh, Australia
P.A. Finke
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
B. Foereid
Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway
E. Frossard
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Eschikon, Switzerland
Y. Ge
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
A.S. Gregory
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
A.E. Hartemink
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Soil Science, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
M. M. Hefting
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
G.B.M. Heuvelink
Wageningen University Soil Geography and Landscape, Wageningen, Netherlands
D. Hirmas
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
R. Horn
University of Kiel Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Kiel, Germany
A. Horta
The University of Sydney Institute of Agriculture, Eveleigh, Australia
J.A. Howe
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United States
B. Huang
Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
S. Imhoff
Veterinary Sciences Institute of the Litoral, Esperanza, Argentina
S. Jeffery
Harper Adams University, Newport, United Kingdom
J. Jiménez
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, Zaragoza, Spain
R.G. Jörgensen
University of Kassel Department of Soil Biology and Plant Nutrition, Witzenhausen, Germany
K. Kaiser
Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
M. Kaiser
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
M.B. Kirkham
Kansas State University Department of Agronomy, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
P. Krasilnikov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moskva, Russian Federation
P. Lagacherie
INRA Montpellier Research Centre, Montpellier, France
R.M. Lark
University of Nottingham School of Biosciences, Loughborough, United Kingdom
B. Ludwig
University of Kassel Department of Environmental Chemistry, Witzenhausen, Germany
B. Malone
The University of Sydney Institute of Agriculture, Eveleigh, Australia
B.P. Marchant
British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom
V.L. Mulder
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
L.J. Munkholm
Aarhus University Department of Agroecology, Tjele, Denmark
E.A. Nater
University of Minnesota Department of Soil Water and Climate, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
H.L. Neely
Texas A&M University Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, College Station, Texas, United States
N. Odgers
Landcare Research New Zealand, Lincoln, New Zealand
Y.A. Pachepsky
USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States
Paulo Pereira
Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
J. Pausch
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
X. Peng
Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
O. Pisani
USDA-ARS Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory, Tifton, Georgia, United States
D. Plaza-Bonilla
University of Lleida Department of Vegetable Production and Forest Sciences, Lleida, Spain
L. Poggio
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
M. Pulleman
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
T. Rennert
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
J. Rinklebe
University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
C.R. Robins
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, United States
D.G. Rossiter
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
N. Saby
Info Sol Service Unit, Ardon, France
R. Schaetzl
Michigan State University Department of Geography, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
J. Schellekens
University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
M. Soubrand
Limoges University, Limoges, France
D.L. Sparks
University of Delaware Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, Delaware, United States
S. Spielvogel
University of Kiel Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Kiel, Germany
M. Spohn
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
B. Stenberg
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Department of Soil and Environment Skara, Skara, Sweden
G. Stoops
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
K.A. Sudduth
USDA-ARS Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research Unit, Columbia, Missouri, United States
A.M. Tarquis
Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
A. Thompson
University of Georgia Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Athens, Georgia, United States
J. Triantafilis
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
C. Veen
Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands
B. Velde
University College Paris, Paris, France
M.J. Vepraskas
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
A.A.B. Vieira
University of Minho Department of Geography, Guimaraes, Portugal
R. Wagai
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences Division of Climate Change, Ibaraki, Japan
G. Wang
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
R. Webster
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
H. Wei
South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
D.C. Weindorf
Texas Tech University Department of Plant Soil Sciences, Lubbock, Texas, United States
O. Wendroth
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
B. van Wesemael
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
L. West
Fayetteville, Arizona, USA
B. Whelan
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
M. Wiesmeier
Technical University of Munich, Munchen, Germany
W. Wilcke
Helmholtz Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
L. W. Winowiecki
World Agroforestry Centre Southeast Asia Indonesia, Bogor, Indonesia
L. Yang
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
K. Yoo
University of Minnesota Department of Soil Water and Climate, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
C. Zaccone
University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
G-L. Zhang
Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
J. Zhang
USDA-ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory, El Reno, Oklahoma, United States
R. Zornoza
Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain