Pedometrics
Editors: McBratney, Alex B., Minasny, Budiman, Stockmann, Uta (Eds.)
- First book of its kind that addresses pedometrics as a new discipline to study soil
- Real-world application for solving soil and environmental problems
- Includes topical issues, such as soil carbon sequestration
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- About this book
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This book presents the basic concepts of quantitative soil science and, within this framework, it seeks to construct a new body of knowledge. There is a growing need for quantitative approach in soil science, which arises from a general demand for improved economic production and environmental management. Pedometrics can be defined as the development and application of statistical and mathematical methods applicable to data analysis problems in soil science. This book shows how pedometrics can address key soil-related questions from a quantitative point of view. It addresses four main areas which are akin to the problems of conventional pedology: (i) Understanding the pattern of soil distribution in character space – soil classification, (ii) Understanding soil spatial and temporal variation, (iii) Evaluating the utility and quality of soil and ultimately, (iv) Understanding the genesis of soil. This is the first book that address these problems in a coherent quantitate approach.
- Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Scope of Pedometrics
Pages 7-39
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Soil Statistical Description and Measurement Scales
Pages 43-57
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Statistical Distributions of Soil Properties
Pages 59-86
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Effective Multivariate Description of Soil and Its Environment
Pages 87-112
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Pedometric Treatment of Soil Attributes
Pages 115-153
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Pedometrics
- Editors
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- Alex B. McBratney
- Budiman Minasny
- Uta Stockmann
- Series Title
- Progress in Soil Science
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-63439-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-63439-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-63437-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-09693-9
- Series ISSN
- 2352-4774
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 720
- Number of Illustrations
- 123 b/w illustrations, 110 illustrations in colour
- Topics
