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GUIDELINES FOR SOIL QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN CONSERVATION PLANN IBD

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04 / 2019
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Sinopsis

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