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Soil mapping, classification, and pedologic modeling: History and future directions
Eric C. Brevik,Constanza Calzolari,Bradley A. Miller,Paulo Pereira,Cezary Kabała,Andreas Baumgarten,Antonio Jordán +6 more
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There are still many significant needs in the area of soil mapping, classification, and pedologic modeling going into the future, and a more universal soil classification system would facilitate international communication of soils information.About:
This article is published in Geoderma.The article was published on 2016-02-15. It has received 214 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil map & Soil survey.read more
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SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning
Tomislav Hengl,Jorge Mendes de Jesus,Gerard B. M. Heuvelink,Maria Ruiperez Gonzalez,Milan Kilibarda,Aleksandar Blagotić,Wei Shangguan,Marvin N. Wright,Xiaoyuan Geng,Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger,Mario Guevara,Rodrigo Vargas,R. A. MacMillan,Niels H. Batjes,Johan G. B. Leenaars,Eloi Ribeiro,Ichsani Wheeler,Stephan Mantel,Bas Kempen +18 more
TL;DR: Improvements in the relative accuracy considering the amount of variation explained, in comparison to the previous version of SoilGrids at 1 km spatial resolution, range from 60 to 230%.
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Heavy metal accumulation related to population density in road dust samples taken from urban sites under different land uses
Juan Manuel Trujillo-González,Marco Aurelio Torres-Mora,Saskia Keesstra,Eric C. Brevik,Raimundo Jiménez-Ballesta +4 more
TL;DR: The geoaccumulation index indicated that the commercial sector was moderately to strongly polluted while the other sectors fell into the unpolluted category, and using the ecological risk index theCommercial sector fell intoThe considerable category while theother sectors classified as low risk.
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Assessment and Monitoring of Soil Degradation during Land Use Change Using Multivariate Analysis
Yones Khaledian,Yones Khaledian,Farshad Kiani,Soheila Ebrahimi,Eric C. Brevik,Jacqueline A. Aitkenhead-Peterson +5 more
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Soil ecosystem services, sustainability, valuation and management
TL;DR: The type, quantity or quality of soil ecosystem services (ES) depends on the specific environmental characteristics that will determine soil properties and functions and the valuation of soil ES depends on natural features and management type as discussed by the authors.
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The Impact of Heavy Grazing on Soil Quality and Pasture Production in Rangelands of SW Spain
Manuel Pulido,Susanne Schnabel,Joaquín Francisco Lavado Contador,Javier Lozano-Parra,Francisco González +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of an excessive number of animals on soil quality and pasture production on privately owned farms dedicated to extensive ranching were analyzed during a period of three years (2008-2011).
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TL;DR: The World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) as mentioned in this paper is a reference base for soil resources developed by the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) for soil correlation.
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TL;DR: In this article, a nomenclatura das classes, bases e criterios, conceito e definicao das classifications do 1o nivel categorico (ordens), Classificacao dos solos ate o 4o and o 4-nivel categico, Argissolos, Cambissolsos, Chernossolos; Evodossolous; Chernossolsos; Estevetsolos), Espodossolis; Gleissolous, Latossols, Neossols; Ne
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A typology for the classification, description and valuation of ecosystem functions, goods and services
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Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change
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