Soil Physical Measurement and Interpretation for Land Evaluation

Soil physical measurements are essential for solving many natural resource management problems. This operational laboratory and field handbook provides, for the first time, a standard set of methods that are cost-effective and well suited to land resource survey. It provides:

• practical guidelines on the soil physical measurements across a range of soils, climates and land uses;
• straightforward descriptions for each method (including common pitfalls) that can be applied by people with a ru...