- Soil functions
Soil functions are general capabilities of
soil s that are important for various agricultural, environmental, nature protection,landscape architecture and urban applications. Six keysoil functions are: [cite book | author = Blum, WEH | date = 1993 | title = Soil Protection Concept of the Council of Europe and Integrated Soil Research | work = Soil and Environment Vol 1 | editor = HJP Eijsackers and T Hamers | pages = 37 - 47 | publisher = Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht] , [cite book | author = DETR | date = 2001 | title = (title unknown) ]#Food and other
biomass production
#Environmental Interaction: storage, filtering, and transformation
#Biological habitat andgene pool
#Source of raw materials
#Physical andcultural heritage
#Platform for man-made structures: buildings, highwaysMapping soil functions
Soil map s can depict soil properties and functions in the context of specific soil functions such as agricultural food production, environmental protection, and civil engineering considerations. Maps can depict functional interpretations of specific properties such as critical nutrient levels, heavy-metal levels or can depict interpretation of multiple properties such as a map oferosion risk index.Mapping of function specific soil properties is an extension of
soil survey , using maps of soil components together with auxiliary information (includingpedotransfer function s and soil inference models) to depict inferences about the specific performance of soil mapping units.See also
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Digital soil mapping
*Pedotransfer function References
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