Geografų indėlis į Lietuvos dirvožemio mokslą

ENThe present article represents a survey of soil science development in Lithuania before and after World War II. As soil research is closely linked with other natural sciences, the contributions of specialists from other fields of research including geography have always been important for soil science development. The works of geographers can be classified according to the aspects and subjects of research: mapping of the soils based on the old and new classifications, evaluation of the productivity of Lithuanian soils, solution of environmental pollution issues, studies of temperature regime of soils, content of carbonates in morainic formations, etc. After the adoption of the new soil classification, there occurred a problem how to make use of the works based on the old classification. A study has already appeared introducing correlation methods helping to convert the old research data to the new ones.