Abstract
The extent of soil formation is dependent on local site characteristics. To model the evolution of soil in the landscape, we therefore need to know which factors and processes are important for describing pedogenesis quantitatively. There are several ways to go about it, and in the following the main approaches of how to formalize soil formation are therefore outlined.
“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil … There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together”.
Charles E. Kellogg
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Stockmann, U., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B. (2018). Clorpt Functions. In: McBratney, A., Minasny, B., Stockmann, U. (eds) Pedometrics. Progress in Soil Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63439-5_18
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