Guidelines for Soil Quality Assessment in Conservation Planning

By U.S. Department of Agriculture

Soil quality is the capacity of a specific kind of soil to function within natural or managed ecosystem boundaries to: ? sustain plant and animal productivity ? maintain or enhance water and air quality ? support human health and habitation Soil function describes what the soil does. Soil functions are: (1) sustaining biological activity, diversity, and productivity; (2) regulating and partitioning water and solute flow; (3) filtering and buffering, degrading, immobilizing, and detoxifying organic and inorganic materials, including industrial and municipal by-products and atmospheric deposition; (4) storing and cycling nutrients and other elements within the earth

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0359573436
• ISBN13: 9780359573431
• Release Date: April 2019
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• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
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