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Recent quantifications of soil heterogeneity (e.g., Burgess and Webster 1980, Vieira et al. 1981, Yost et al. 1982, ten Berge et al. 1983, Wollum and Cassel 1984) have established the general validity of geostatistical principles for soil attributes. This means that soil and related properties (e.g., plant growth) are typically not independently distributed but characterized by autocorrelation. Besides the applicability of the use of geostatistical techniques such as kriging, this also has implications for other types of studies that are conducted in the landscape. This chapter addresses in general terms the nature of soil variability and its relation to soil-forming processes. In addition, it discusses sampling designs for various types of studies that are conducted in the landscape and are therefore affected by spatially dependent variance structures.
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van Es, H.M. (1993). The Spatial Nature of Soil Variability and Its Implications for Field Studies. In: Levin, S.A., Powell, T.M., Steele, J.W. (eds) Patch Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 96. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50155-5_3
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