Fertility capability soil classification: A tool to help assess soil quality in the tropics

Geoderma

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 157-185

  Sanchez, Pedro A ^a,c   Palm, Cheryl A ^a   Buol, Stanley W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy; Integrated natural resource management; Organic carbon saturation; Soil attributes; Soil taxonomy; Tropical soils

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL QUALITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0038713416     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7061(03)00040-5     Document Type: Article

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