| Guidelines for Soil Quality Assessment in Conservation Planning Contributor(s): Department of Agriculture, U. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0359573436 ISBN-13: 9780359573431 Publisher: Lulu.com OUR PRICE: $15.68 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Reference |
| Physical Information: 0.1" H x 8.25" W x 11" (0.29 lbs) 48 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 |