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SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL
Volume 64, Issue 6, Pages 2046-2056Publisher
SOIL SCI SOC AMER
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2000.6462046x
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Soil-landscape patterns result from the integration of short- and long-term pedogeomorphic processes. A 2-ha hillslope catena in California shows short-distance variation in A horizon depth from 8 to 80 cm and in soil depth from 8 to >450 cm in convex to concave positions. Similar variations in net primary productivity (NPP) and soil C represent significant information often not captured by soil survey maps. Strong correlations between these measured soil-landscape variables and explanatory digital terrain attributes are used to develop quantitative soil-landscape models. We were able to account for between 52 and 88% of soil property variance using easily computed terrain variables such as slope and flow accumulation. Spatial implementation of the models suggest lateral redistribution processes resulting in differential accumulation of C and soil mass in convergent and divergent landscape positions. The models are explicit and quantitative, which enables their use for testing hypotheses about the spatial distribution of fine-scale landscape and ecosystem processes and for parameterizing spatially distributed hydrological and ecosystem simulation models.
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