Variability of soil properties in a tropical Alfisol used for shifting cultivation

Soil Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 187-197

  Mapa, Ranjith B ^a,b   Kumaragamage, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Kriging; Shifting cultivation; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

ALFISOL; CULTIVATION; SOIL PH; SOIL PROPERTIES; TROPICAL SOIL;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0030222743     PISSN: 09333630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3630(96)00015-3     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Anonymous. 1991. National environmental action plan for 1992-1996. Ministry of Environment and Parliamentary Affairs. Government of Sri Lanka, 88 pp.
2. Bauer, A. and Black, A.C., 1994. Quantification of the effect of soil organic matter content on soil productivity. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 58: 185-193.
3. Bingham, F.T., 1962. Chemical tests for available Phosphorus. Soil Sci., 94: 87-95.
4. Burges, T.M. and Webster, R., 1980. Optimal interpolation and isothermic mapping of soil properties. I. The semi-variogram and punctual kriging. J. Soil Sci., 31: 315-332.
5. Crutcher, H.L., 1975. A note on the possible misuse of the Kolmogrov-Smirnov test. J. Appl. Meteorol., 14: 1600-1603.
6. de Alwis, K.A. and Panabokke, C.R., 1972. Soils of Sri Lanka. J. Soil Sci. Soc. Sri Lanka, 2: 21-52.
7. Dhillion, N.S., Samara, J.S., Sadana, U.S. and Nielsen, D.R., 1994. Spatial variability of soil test values in a Typic Ustochrept. Soil Technol. 7: 163-171.
8. FAO-UNESCO., 1973. Irrigation drainage and salinity. An international source book. FAO-UNESCO/Hutchinson, London.
9. Gee, G.W. and Bauder, J.W., 1986. Particle size analysis. In: ed. A. Klute, Methods of Soil Analysis, part I, 2nd Ed., Agronomy 9. SSSA, USA, pp. 383-411.
10. Gonzalez, O.J. and Zak, D.R., 1994. Geostatistical analysis of soil properties in a secondary tropical dry forest, St. Lucia, West Indies. Plant Soil, 163: 45-54.
11. Hillel, D., 1980. Applications of Soil Physics. Academic Press, New York, 380 pp.
12. Hudson, B.D., 1994. Soil organic matter and available water capacity. J. Soil Water Conservation, 49: 189-194.
13. Journal, A.G. and Huijbregts, C.H., 1978. Mining Geostatistics. Academic Press, New York, 600 pp.
14. Landon, J.R., 1984. Booker tropical Soil Manual. Booker Agricultural International Limited. Pitman Press, Bath, England, 450 pp.
15. Lascano, R.J. and Hartfield, J.L., 1992. Spatial variability of evaporation along two transacts of a bare soil. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 56: 341-346.
16. Lillifors, W.G., 1967. On the Kolmogrov-Smirnow test for normality when mean and variance is unknown. Am. Statist. Assoc. J., 62: 99-402.
17. Mapa, R.B. and Pathmarajah, S., 1995. Contrasts in the physical properties of three soils of an Alfisol catena in Sri Lanka, Soil Use Manag., 11: 21-28.
18. Mapa, R.B., 1992. Clay mineralogy of Sri Lanka soils in relation to weathering sequence. J. Geolog. Soc. Sri Lanka, 4: 45-47.
19. McLean, E.O., 1982. Soil pH and lime requirement. In: ed. A.L. Page, R.H. Miller and D.R. Keeney, Methods of Soil Analysis, part 2, 2nd Ed., Agronomy 9. SSSA, USA, pp. 199-273.
20. Metson, A.J., 1961. Methods of chemical analysis for soil survey samples. New Zealand Dept of Sci. Ind. Res. Soil. Bur. Bull 12. Govt. Printing Office, Wellington, New Zealand.
21. Nalson, D.W. and L.E. Sommers., 1982. Total Carbon, organic Carbon and organic matter. In: ed. A.L. Page, R.H. Miller and D.R. Keeney, Methods of Soil Analysis, part 2, 2nd Ed., Agronomy 9. SSSA, USA, pp. 539-577.
22. Olson, S.R. and L.E. Sommers., 1982. Phosphorus. In: ed. A.L. Page, R.H. Miller and D.R. Keeney, Methods of Soil Analysis, part 2, 2nd Ed., Agronomy 9. SSSA, USA, pp. 403-430.
23. Pearson, R.W., 1975. Soil acidity and liming in the humid tropics. Cornell Int. Agricult. Bull., 30. Ithaca. New York.
24. Rao, P.V., Rao, P.S.C., Davidson, J.L. and Hammond, C.L., 1979. Use of goodness-of-fit test for characterizing the spatial variability of soil properties. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 43: 274-278.
25. Rhoades, J.D., 1982. Soluble salts. In: ed. A.L. Page, R.H. Miller and D.R. Keeney, Methods of Soil Analysis, part 2, 2nd Ed., Agronomy 9. SSSA, USA, pp. 167-178.
26. Richter, D.D. and Babbar, L.I., 1991. Soil diversity in the tropics. Adv. Ecol. Res., 21: 315-389.
27. Robert, P.C., Rust, R.H. and Larson, W.E., 1993. Soil specific crop management. Special Publ. Amer. Soc. Agronomy, 406.
28. Russo, D., 1984. Spatial variability considerations in salinity management. In: ed. I. Shainberg and J. Shalhvet, Soil Salinity Under Irrigation. Springer-Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Tokyo, pp. 198-216.
29. Snedecor, G.W. and Cochran, W.G., 1967. Statistical Methods. Iowa State University Press, Iowa, 475 pp.
30. Soil Survey Staff., 1992. Keys to Soil Taxonomy. Soil Management Support Services, Tech. Monograph 19, 5th Ed. Pocahoutas Press, Blackspring, Virginia, USA. 232 pp.
31. Sokal, R.R. and Rohlf, F.J., 1981. Biometry. 2nd Ed., W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, 398 p.
32. Trangmar, B.B., 1982. Benchmark soils news. 6,4-5. Benchmark Soils Project, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA.
33. Trangmar, B.B., Yost, R.S. and Uehara, G., 1984. Application of geo-statistics to spatial studies of soil properties. Adv. Agronomy, 3: 45-94.
34. Trangmar, B.B., Yost, R.S., Wade, M.K, Uehara, G. and Dudjadi, M., 1987. Spatial variation of soil properties and rice yield on recently cleared land. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 51: 668-674.
35. Uehara, G. and Gillman, G., 1981. The Mineralogy, Chemistry, and Physics of tropical Soils with variable Charge Clays. Westview Press, Colorado, 170 pp.
36. Viera, S.R., Nielsen, D.R. and Biggar, J.W., 1981. Spatial variability of field measured infiltration rate. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 45: 1040-1048.
37. Warrick, A.W. and Gardner, W.R., 1983. Crop yield as effected by spatial variations of soil and irrigation. Water Resource Res., 19: 181-186.
38. Warrick, A.W., Myers, D.E. and Nielsen, D.R., 1986. Geostatistical methods applied to soil science. In: ed. A. Klute, Methods of Soil Analysis, part I, 2nd Ed. Agronomy 9. SSSA, USA, pp. 53-80.
39. Yates, S.R. and Yates, M.V., 1990. Geo-statistics for waste management. A user manual for the GEOPACK (Version 1.0) Geostatistical Software System. United Sates Environmental Protection Agency, 66 pp.