Quantifying tacit knowledge about soil organic carbon stocks using soil taxa and official soil series descriptions

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1711-1723

  Wills, Skye ^a   Seybold, Cathy ^a   Chiaretti, Joe ^a   Sequeira, Cleiton ^b   West, Larry ^a  

^a USDA NRCS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA OF INTEREST; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; IMPLICIT RELATIONSHIPS; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STOCKS; TEMPERATURE REGIMES;

SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS;

TAXONOMIES;

DATABASE; ORGANIC CARBON; PEDON; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL SURVEY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884858655     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2012.0168     Document Type: Article

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