Progress in soil geography I: Reinvigoration

Miller, Bradley A.; Brevik, Eric C.; Pereira, Paulo; Schaetzl, Randall J.

doi:10.1177/0309133319889048

Cited by 8 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 173 publications

(250 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…132 The quality of our maps depends on the sampling design used to gather information, methods used, the models used to project point data across a 2-or 3-dimensional mapping product, and the skill and training of those who create the maps. 98,[133][134][135] Therefore, additional research is needed to investigate best soil mapping practices including data collection, analysis, manipulation, and display. 136…”

Section: Future Needs In Soil Pollution and Human Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soil and Human Health: Current Status and Future Needs

Brevik

Slaughter

Singh

et al. 2020

Air, Soil and Water Research

Self Cite

201

109

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Soil influences human health in a variety of ways, with human health being linked to the health of the soil. Historically, emphasis has been placed on the negative impacts that soils have on human health, including exposures to toxins and pathogenic organisms or the problems created by growing crops in nutrient-deficient soils. However, there are a number of positive ways that soils enhance human health, from food production and nutrient supply to the supply of medications and enhancement of the immune system. It is increasingly recognized that the soil is an ecosystem with a myriad of interconnected parts, each influencing the other, and when all necessary parts are present and functioning (ie, the soil is healthy), human health also benefits. Despite the advances that have been made, there are still many areas that need additional investigation. We do not have a good understanding of how chemical mixtures in the environment influence human health, and chemical mixtures in soil are the rule, not the exception. We also have sparse information on how most chemicals react within the chemically and biologically active soil ecosystem, and what those reactions mean for human health. There is a need to better integrate soil ecology and agronomic crop production with human health, food/nutrition science, and genetics to enhance bacterial and fungal sequencing capabilities, metagenomics, and the subsequent analysis and interpretation. While considerable work has focused on soil microbiology, the macroorganisms have received much less attention regarding links to human health and need considerable attention. Finally, there is a pressing need to effectively communicate soil and human health connections to our broader society, as people cannot act on information they do not have. Multidisciplinary teams of researchers, including scientists, social scientists, and others, will be essential to move all these issues forward.

show abstract

Section: Future Needs In Soil Pollution and Human Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soil and Human Health: Current Status and Future Needs

Brevik

Slaughter

Singh

et al. 2020

Air, Soil and Water Research

Self Cite

201

109

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Despite this, it was only relatively recently (in the 19th and 20th centuries) that the foundations of modern soil science were laid by the Russian school of landscape studies [7]. Soil geography-a branch of soil science that includes geostatistics-deals with the spatial variability and distribution of soil properties, the patterns and causes of soil distributions, and their relationship with humans [8]. It also involves the identification and classification of soils, the assessment of the human and natural factors that impact pedogenesis and soil distribution, and uses soil mapping as a basic methodological tool [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges in the Geo-Processing of Big Soil Spatial Data

Liakos

Panagos

2022

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study addressed a critical resource—soil—through the prism of processing big data at the continental scale. Rapid progress in technology and remote sensing has majorly improved data processing on extensive spatial and temporal scales. Here, the manuscript presents the results of a systematic effort to geo-process and analyze soil-relevant data. In addition, the main highlights include the difficulties associated with using data infrastructures, managing big geospatial data, decentralizing operations through remote access, mass processing, and automating the data-processing workflow using advanced programming languages. Challenges to this study included the reproducibility of the results, their presentation in a communicative way, and the harmonization of complex heterogeneous data in space and time based on high standards of accuracy. Accuracy was especially important as the results needed to be identical at all spatial scales (from point counts to aggregated countrywide data). The geospatial modeling of soil requires analysis at multiple spatial scales, from the pixel level, through multiple territorial units (national or regional), and river catchments, to the global scale. Advanced mapping methods (e.g., zonal statistics, map algebra, choropleth maps, and proportional symbols) were used to convey comprehensive and substantial information that would be of use to policymakers. More specifically, a variety of cartographic practices were employed, including vector and raster visualization and hexagon grid maps at the global or European scale and in several cartographic projections. The information was rendered in both grid format and as aggregated statistics per polygon (zonal statistics), combined with diagrams and an advanced graphical interface. The uncertainty was estimated and the results were validated in order to present the outputs in the most robust way. The study was also interdisciplinary in nature, requiring large-scale datasets to be integrated from different scientific domains, such as soil science, geography, hydrology, chemistry, climate change, and agriculture.

show abstract

“…), climatic/bioclimatic maps, and administrative units (states, regions, etc.) in order to permit scientifically sound comparisons (see Ibáñez and Bockheim and references therein; Ibáñez, 2017; Miller, Brevik, Pereira, & Schaetzl, 2019). Such analyses have also been conducted for landforms, vegetation, etc., at the landscape level (e.g., Ibáñez et al 2005a, b; Ibáñez & Effland, 2011; Magurran, 2004; San‐José Martínez & Caniego, 2013; among others).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the scaling law of geographical space: Gaussian versus Paretian thinking

Ibáñez

Ramírez‐Rosario

Fernández‐Pozo

et al. 2020

European J Soil Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A debate has occurred concerning the laws of scale and the fractal nature of geographical space. Biodiversity and pedodiversity studies show the emergence of fractal structures such as taxa‐area relationships. Biodiversity and pedodiversity are natural resources, although some consider pedotaxa to be artificial. The studies carried out to date emphasize that many pedodiversity and biodiversity spatial patterns converge at the same regularities. Many of these studies used natural resources maps and their digital databases. Information is extracted from the taxa types contained in each polygon and the areas covered. However, the structure of the maps (number, area, fragmentation, etc.) has rarely been a matter of study. When map structure was studied, intriguing similarities were observed in pedodiversity and biodiversity analyses. To understand whether these similarities also appear in other types of spatial entities that are more artificial, a review of geospatial analyses that studied topics such as urban maps, land system maps, etc., was undertaken. The main variables in these maps are manmade and/or combinations of natural resources data layers. Regularities detected in the geospatial information of these latter topics also seem to conform to results obtained when analysing natural resources maps such as soils, rock types, landforms, plant communities, etc. Thus, some geographers consider the idea that there are far more small things/objects than larger ones across several orders of magnitude in geographic space to be a law. Some geographers also contend that the classical “Gaussian thinking” and its statistical tools should be replaced by a “Paretian thinking” and its related statistical tools. This paper analyses the above topics as well as the lack of adequate data and types of cognitive maps we use in our modern scientific society, supporting the conjecture that that we should include Paretian thinking in our research at least in the same way we use Gaussian thinking. Highlights Long tail distributions, power laws and fractal‐like structures are ubiquitous in geospatial analysis. Scale invariance of natural and artificial map structures seem to be the rule. The Paretian approach appears to be more appropriate than the Gaussian approach for many purposes. Our cognitive maps and brain processing follow Paretian thinking in many instances.

show abstract

Progress in soil geography I: Reinvigoration

Cited by 8 publications

References 173 publications

Soil and Human Health: Current Status and Future Needs

Soil and Human Health: Current Status and Future Needs

Challenges in the Geo-Processing of Big Soil Spatial Data

Exploring the scaling law of geographical space: Gaussian versus Paretian thinking

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About