Digital mapping of soil organic matter for rubber plantation at regional scale: An application of random forest plus residuals kriging approach

Geoderma

Volumn 237-238, Issue , 2015, Pages 49-59

  Guo, Peng Tao ^a   Li, Mao Fen ^b   Luo, Wei ^a   Tang, Qun Feng ^c   Liu, Zhi Wei ^c   Lin, Zhao Mu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Hainan Research Academy of Environmental Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental variable; Predictive soil mapping; Rubber tree; Tropical area

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; INTERPOLATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RUBBER; RUBBER PLANTATIONS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; RUBBER TREE; SOIL MAPPING; STEPWISE LINEAR REGRESSION; TROPICAL AREA; DIGITAL MAPPING; KRIGING APPROACH; RANDOM FORESTS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON CYCLE; DIGITAL MAPPING; FOREST SOIL; KRIGING; PLANTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUBBER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPSOIL; TROPICAL REGION; DATA SET; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REGIONAL PATTERN; SOIL FERTILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTRY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANTATIONS; RUBBER; SOIL; SURVEYS;

CHINA; HAINAN; DANZHOU;

HEVEA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 84906728259     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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