Physical soil quality indicators for monitoring British soils

Corstanje, Ron; Mercer, Theresa G.; Rickson, Jane R.; Deeks, Lynda K.; Newell-Price, Paul; Holman, Ian; Kechavarsi, Cedric; Waine, Toby W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-1003-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-1003-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-1003-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 5

Research article

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28 Sep 2017

Research article |

| 28 Sep 2017

Physical soil quality indicators for monitoring British soils

Ron Corstanje, Theresa G. Mercer, Jane R. Rickson, Lynda K. Deeks, Paul Newell-Price, Ian Holman, Cedric Kechavarsi, and Toby W. Waine

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SC1: 'Figure 4', Antonio Jordán, 21 Nov 2016
- AC1: 'Response to SC1: 'Figure 4', Antonio Jordán, 21 Nov 2016', Theresa Mercer, 21 Feb 2017
RC1: 'physical soil indicators', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Dec 2016
SC2: 'Physical soil quality indicators for monitoring British soils', Linhua Wang, 18 Dec 2016
- AC3: 'Response to: SC2: 'Physical soil quality indicators for monitoring British soils', Linhua Wang, 18 Dec 2016', Theresa Mercer, 21 Feb 2017
RC2: 'Comments on se-2016-153', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Jan 2017
- AC4: 'Response to: RC2: 'Comments on se-2016-153', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Jan 2017', Theresa Mercer, 21 Feb 2017
AC2: 'Response to RC1: 'physical soil indicators', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Dec 2016', Theresa Mercer, 21 Feb 2017

Short summary

This research assessed whether physical soil properties can be used to indicate the quality of British soils in terms of their delivery of ecosystem goods and services. A prioritised list of physical soil quality indicators (SQIs) were tested for robustness, spatial and temporal variability, and expected rate of change. Seven SQIs were selected: soil packing density, water retention characteristics, aggregate stability, rate of soil erosion, soil depth, soil structure and soil sealing.