Pedodiversity and global soil patterns at coarse scales (with discussion)

Retrieval of Soil Moisture Data at Global Scales with Amsr-e

An algorithm for the estimate of the soil moisture content on a global scale from dual-frequency (Cand Xbands) microwave data of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) is presented in this paper. The algorithm is based on the brightness temperature at C-band and uses the Polarization Index at X-band to correct for vegetation effects. The retrieval is obtained by inverting a simplif...

Soil resources influence spatial patterns of denitrifying communities at scales compatible with land management.

Knowing spatial patterns of functional microbial guilds can increase our understanding of the relationships between microbial community ecology and ecosystem functions. Using geostatistical modeling to map spatial patterns, we explored the distribution of the community structure, size, and activity of one functional group in N cycling, the denitrifiers, in relation to 23 soil parameters over a ...

Design Patterns at Different Scales

Global pedodiversity, taxonomic distance, and the World Reference Base

Article history: Received 11 July 2008 Received in revised form 18 March 2009 Accepted 20 April 2009 Available online 26 May 2009

Soil Landscape Models at Different Scales Portrayed