These may save you some work entering your citations in papers. Also,
you can search for works of interest. Warning! These are
provided as-is. I am not a reference librarian nor a professional
abstracting service, so I do not
guarantee that all the citations are perfect. As always, you are responsible
for finding the source and reading it yourself. Please
e-mail me with any corrections.
- References on soil survey and soil variability:
BiBTeX file (1.6 Mb);
Search on-line for soil survey related topics.
These can help you build up a bibliography. Ask your library to buy them.
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Soil Science Database (formerly SOILCD) from
CAB International.
A subset of the CAB Abstracts on soils- and environment-related topics.
This provides references and abstracts to the
international literature on soils, fertilizers and land management from
1973 onwards.
Subjects covered include soil science, soil management, crop
management, fertilizers, agricultural meteorology, pollution, land
reclamation, irrigation and drainage, plant nutrition, plant water
relations.
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Dent, D. & Young, A. 1981.
Soil survey and land evaluation.
London: George Allen & Unwin.
Still the only English-language text on these subjects.
A refreshing,
straight-forward and non-ideological presentation.
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Buol, S. W., F. D. Hole, McCracken, R.J.
& Southard, R. J. 1997. Soil genesis and classification.
Ames, IA, The Iowa State University Press.
By far the best explanation of how soils form on the landscape.
Emphasizes geographic aspects; organized around USDA Soil Taxonomy.
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Davidson, D.A. 1992. The evaluation of land resources.
Harlow: Longman Scientific & Technical.
An accessible and well-written book on methods to evaluate land. It
includes a good description of what the land evaluator can extract
from soil maps.
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Ruellan, A. & Dosso, M. 1993.
Regards sur le sol. Paris: Foucher.
A truly beautiful effort to communicate to the general public how soils
occur on landscapes. Available in French, English, Portuguese,
and Spanish.
I've only listed journals with on-line content, either abstracts
or full articles, and which publish papers directly related to soil survey.
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Australian Journal of Soil Research
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Catena
Integrated soils & geomorphology research
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European Journal of Soil Science
Not much on soil geography, unfortunately.
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Geoderma
The journal of choice for digital soil mapping, soil geostatistics, and pedometrics.
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Nature
I've never seen soil survey here, but there are often relevant articles on land use and environment.
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Science of Soils
The first on-line journal of soil science. Dormant since 2001 but archives are intact.
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Science
Occasional article on soils and land use, especially relating to policy.
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Soil Science Society of America Journal
This is the premier soil science journal in the USA.
There are usually several papers from Division S-5 (Pedology)
relevant for soil survey.
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Soil Use & Management
Practical articles aimed at soil managers. Has published influental articles on
soil survey, geostatistics, land evaluation, and use of soil data for modelling.
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Byrd, H. 1991. Speaking out on soil survey (letter to the editor).
Soil Survey Horizons 32, 126-127.
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Zinck , J.A. 1990. Soil survey: epistemology of a vital discipline.
ITC Journal 1990-4: 335-351.
Zinck's inaugural address as Professor of Soil Survey at ITC.
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Hudson, B.D. 1992. The soil survey as paradigm-based science. Soil
Science Society of American Journal 56, 836-841.
This has been heavily criticized, but has had some influence in the USA.
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Avery, B.W. 1987. Soil survey methods: a review. Technical Monograph
No. 18 Soil Survey & Land Resource Centre, Silsoe.
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USDA Soil
Survey Division Staff. 1993. Soil Survey Manual. USDA
Handbook 18. Washington, DC.
Standard practices in the USA.
Also available in Web format
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McKenzie, N. J., P. E. Gessler,
Ryan, P. J., &
O'Connell, D. A.
2000. The role of terrain analysis in soil mapping.
Pages 245-265 In: "Terrain analysis : principles and applications", edited by
J. P. Wilson & J. Gallant. New York, Wiley & Sons
Summarizes the very active research in automated soil mapping from
terrain attributes.
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Bibliography for Predictive Soil Modeling
Excellent reading list, from Karen Holmes of Soil Science Research Group,
UCSB
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Reybold, W.U. & Petersen, G.W. (ed.) 1987. Soil survey techniques.
SSSA Special Publication Number 20 Soil Science Society of America,
Inc., Madison, WI.
This includes some interesting papers on new (in 1987) techniques:
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Doolittle, J.A. 1987. Using ground-penetrating radar to increase the
quality and efficiency of soil surveys. pp. 11-32.
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Grossman, R.B. & Pringle, F.B. 1987. Describing surface soil
properties - their seasonal changes and implications for management.
pp. 57-75.
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Horvath, E.H., Fosnight, E.A., Klingebiel,
A.A., Moore, D.G. & Stone, J.E. 1987. Using a spatial and tabular
database to generate statistics from terrain and spectral data for
soil surveys. pp. 91-98.
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Klingebiel, A.A., Horvath,
E.H., Moore, D.G. & Reybold, W.U. 1987. Use of slope, aspect and
elevation maps derived from digital elevation model data in making
soil surveys. pp. 77-90.
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In the early 1970's the Oxford group published an excellent set of
papers on soil survey technqiues, focusing on cost-effectiveness.
Their basic idea was that soil survey should be judged on its
usefulness to its various users.
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Bie, S.W. & Beckett, P.H.T. 1971. Quality control in soil survey.
Introduction: I. The choice of mapping unit. Journal of Soil Science
22, 32-49.
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Bie, S.W. & Beckett, P.H.T. 1971. Quality control in soil survey.
II. The costs of soil survey. Journal of Soil Science 22, 453-465.
- Burrough, P.A., Beckett, P.H.T. & Jarvis, M.G. 1971. The
relation between cost & utility in soil survey (I-III).
Journal of Soil Science 22, 359-394.
- Beckett, P.H.T. & Burrough, P.A. 1971. The relation between
cost & utility in soil survey. IV. Comparison of the utilities of
soil maps produced by different survey procedures, and to different
scales. Journal of Soil Science 22, 466-480.
- Beckett, P.H.T. & Burrough, P.A. 1971. The relation between
cost & utility in soil survey. V. The cost-effectiveness of
different soil survey procedures. Journal of Soil
Science 22, 481-489.
- Bie, S.W. & Ulph, A. 1972. The economic value of survey
information. Journal of Agricultural Economics
13, 285-297.
- Bie, S.W., Uph, A. & Beckett, P.H.T.
1973. Calculating the economic benefits of soil survey.
Journal of Soil Science 24, 429-435.
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Forbes, T.R., Rossiter, D. & Van Wambeke, A. 1982. Guidelines for
evaluating the adequacy of soil resource inventories, 1987 printing
ed. SMSS Technical Monograph #4 Cornell University Department of
Agronomy, Ithaca, NY.
A straightforward methdology to determine whether a published survey
meets the needs of a particular user. It divides adequacy into four
parts:
On-line version
(9.64 Mb)
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Map scale: "Is the soils map legible, and, in particular, can
it legibly represent the smallest land area of interest to the soil
resource inventory user?"
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Legend: "Does the soils map convey sufficient information on
the properties of the mapped land?"
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Location accuracy: "Can points and areas be accurately located
on the ground or on the map?"
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Ground truth: "How reliable is the map? Does the representation of the
soilscape presented by the map accurately reflect the true soilscape?"
This was written before GPS, inertial navigation systems, and
widely-available GIS and georeferenced remote sensing.
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de Gruijter, J.J. & Marsman, B.A. 1984. Transect sampling for
reliable information on mapping units. Soil spatial variability:
proceedings of a workshop of the ISSS and SSSA, Las Vegas, 150-163.
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van Reeuwijk, L.P. van (ed.). 1998? Guidelines for
Quality Management in Soil & Plant Laboratories. ISRIC/FAO.
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Eyk, J J van der, MacVicar, C N, & Villiers, J M de. 1969.
Soils of the Tugela Basin: a study in subtropical Africa.
Natal (Republic of South Africa): Town & Regional Planning Comission.
An outstanding report, and an example of a survey aimed squarely at
regional planning.
