Sunday, June 15, 2008

New soil analysis aims to improve land use

Scientists have investigated different components of variation in soil at diverse scales ranging from the nanoscale to entire biomes in order to improve predictions of soil processes and subsequently land use.

Soil variation occurs across multiple geographic scales ranging from vast climatic regions of the Earth to a 50 acre farm field to the molecular world of soil nano-particles in a pinch of soil.
Though many approaches have been used to examine soil variation at these diverse scales, there is a common difficulty among methods in separating out random variations from systematic variations.
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