The soil management assessment framework: A quantitative soil quality evaluation method

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1945-1962

  Andrews, Susan S ^a   Karlen, Douglas L ^b   Cambardella, Cynthia A ^b  

^a USDA NRCS   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; EROSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL CONSERVATION;

FOCAL POINTS; MINIMUM DATA SETS; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL QUALITY (SQ);

SOILS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 4544359376     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2004.1945     Document Type: Article

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