Guidelines for Soil Quality Assessment in Conservation Planning

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

• | Author: U.S. Department of Agriculture
• | Publisher: Lulu.Com
• | Publication Date: Apr 06, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 48 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0359573436
• | ISBN-13: 9780359573431