Resources Tagged: Soil Sampling

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  1. Soil Quality Assessment: Why and How

    2020-01-01 Soil quality, also known as soil health, is the capacity of the soil to function – how well it fills the roles we need it to, whether in a natural or managed ecosystem. A variety of measures are used to gauge soil health; although we can use these characteristics as indicators of soil quality,...
    Soil Quality Soil Organic Matter Soil Classification Soil pH Soil Sampling Soil

  2. Understanding spatial patterns of soils for sustainable agriculture in northern Ethiopia’s tropical mountains

    Abstract, PLOSone, 2019 Knowledge of the geographical distribution of soils is indispensable for policy and decision makers to achieve the goal of increasing agricultural production and reduce poverty, particularly in the Global South. A study was conducted to better understand the soilscapes of...
    Geospatial Soil Sampling Ethiopia

  3. A Handbook of Tropical Soil Biology: Sampling & Characterization of Below-Ground Biodiversity

    Key Resource 2008-10-02 This practical handbook describes sampling and laboratory assessment methods for the biodiversity of a number of key functional groups of soil organisms, including insects, earthworms, nematodes, fungi and bacteria. The methods have been assembled and the protocols drafted by a number of...
    Soil Biodiversity Soil biology Soil Sampling