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Acknowledgments
This chapter is based on the fi nancially supported programs by National
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) No.41171177 ‘Impact of
land-use change on pedodiversity and analysis of its eco-environmental
effect’, No.40171044 ‘Soil spatial variability based upon pedodiversity
methodology’, No.40541003 ‘Indices set-up to show the pedodiversity
change induced by the land-use change in the Yangtze delta area’ and
No.40671012 ‘Regional pedodiversity dynamic change and its implication
to the evolvement of soil spatial patterns under the intensive urbanization
process’. Our colleagues Dr. Duan J.L, Dr. Tan M.Z, ...