Development of biological soil quality indicator system for subtropical China

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 126, Issue , 2013, Pages 112-118

  Li, Ping ^a   Zhang, Taolin ^b   Wang, Xingxiang ^b   Yu, Dongsheng ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Minimum data set; Principal component analysis (PCA); Soil quality index; Soil quality indicators

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOILS;

BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MINIMUM DATA SET; PEARSON CORRELATION ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; SOIL QUALITY INDEX; SOIL QUALITY INDICATORS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84867781901     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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