Question

what is difference between pedology and edaphology

Answer 1

Edaphology mainly focuses on how soil influences living things especially plants. Edaphology involves the study of how soil affects the way human nature uses the land for growing plants. Edaphology also involves the general use of land by humankind. Several subfields exist within edaphology, and this includes environmental soil science and agricultural soil science. Some regions across the globe refer to agricultural soil science as agrology.


Pedology, on the other hand, involves the study of soil classification, pedogenesis, and soil morphology. In some countries such as Russia, pedology and edaphology are considered to be the same thing, but other nations differentiate the two with regards to agrochemistry and agrophysics.