Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides
multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to …

Abstract The United Nations effort to define Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's),
emphasizing local goals and capacity building, offers a unique opportunity for soil science to …

Soil security, an overarching concept of soil motivated by sustainable development, is
concerned with the maintenance and improvement of the global soil resource to produce …

Assessment of soil quality index (SQI) using only the surface soil properties provides an
incomplete information as the crop productivity is influenced by both surface and subsurface …

Soil map**, classification, and pedologic modeling have been important drivers in the
advancement of our understanding of soil from the earliest days of the scientific study of …

Many studies convincingly document the importance of soils when dealing with the global
environmental sustainability issues of today, such as food, water and energy security …

This study focuses on soil physical aspects of soil quality and health with the objective to
define procedures with worldwide rather than only regional applicability, reflecting modern …

Among natural resources, soils continue to be poorly represented in ecosystem services
frameworks and decision-making processes. Similarly, the supply of multiple ecosystem …

Capability, a term that has been well defined in welfare economics, can be applied to soil by
defining the intrinsic capacity of a soil to contribute to ecosystem services, including biomass …

Soil survey techniques can integrate observation, map**, and interpretation of information
on soil nutrients and metals, and thus play an important role in basic and applied soil …