Soil Functions

Soil functions are general capabilities of soils that are important for various agricultural, environmental, nature protection, landscape architecture and urban applications. Six key soil functions are:,

  1. Food and other biomass production
  2. Environmental Interaction: storage, filtering, and transformation
  3. Biological habitat and gene pool
  4. Source of raw materials
  5. Physical and cultural heritage
  6. Platform for man-made structures: buildings, highways

Read more about Soil Functions:  Mapping Soil Functions, See Also

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