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Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments

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? 2022Soil health is a promising lens through which to approach land management, having the potential to serve as a descriptor of biophysical processes and as an effective communication tool across stakeholders. However, this potential has been largely unrealized due to difficulty in quantitatively assessing soil health and linking those assessments to outcomes. Here we discuss many multiple persistent obstacles to quantitative soil health assessment and outline a suite of analyses to help address those obstacles. Specifically, we propose a quantitative approach to developing and selecting soil health indicators that help connect management-induced changes in soil health to specific outcomes (e.g., yield or water quality). To demonstrate the utility of this approach, we perform a small case study using published data from North Carolina and New York cropping systems. Additionally, we outline how this approach is scalable and flexible enough to integrate future soil health metric development. The proposed approach stands to provide a quantitative, empirical basis for future measurement, assessment, and interpretation of soil health.

Latent variable analysisSoil health assessmentSoil health indicatorSoil quality

Wade J.、Culman S.W.、Martin T.K.、Sprunger C.D.、Gasch C.K.、Lazcano C.、Wallenstein M.D.、Maltais-Landry G.、Margenot A.J.、Potter T.S.、Roper W.R.、Ruark M.D.

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School of Environment & Natural Resources Ohio State University

School of Natural Resource Sciences North Dakota State University

Department of Land Air and Water Resources University of California Davis

Department of Soil & Crop Sciences Colorado State University

Soil and Water Sciences Department University of Florida

Department of Crop Sciences University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Department of Crop and Soil Sciences Washington State University

Crop and Soil Sciences Department North Carolina State University

Department of Soil Science University of Wisconsin

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2022

10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108710

Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Soil Biology & Biochemistry

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ISSN：0038-0717
年,卷(期)：2022.170
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