lessivage-in-florida-soils

Determining the depth and degree of lessivage in Florida soils using the NRCS-NCSS Soil Characterization Database

https://github.com/dcolopietro/lessivage-in-florida-soils

Science Score: 44.0%

This score indicates how likely this project is to be science-related based on various indicators:

  • CITATION.cff file
    Found CITATION.cff file
  • codemeta.json file
    Found codemeta.json file
  • .zenodo.json file
    Found .zenodo.json file
  • DOI references
  • Academic publication links
  • Academic email domains
  • Institutional organization owner
  • JOSS paper metadata
  • Scientific vocabulary similarity
    Low similarity (4.7%) to scientific vocabulary
Last synced: 10 months ago · JSON representation ·

Repository

Determining the depth and degree of lessivage in Florida soils using the NRCS-NCSS Soil Characterization Database

Basic Info
  • Host: GitHub
  • Owner: DColopietro
  • License: mit
  • Language: R
  • Default Branch: main
  • Homepage:
  • Size: 8.63 MB
Statistics
  • Stars: 1
  • Watchers: 1
  • Forks: 0
  • Open Issues: 0
  • Releases: 0
Created almost 2 years ago · Last pushed over 1 year ago
Metadata Files
Readme License Citation

README.md

Lessivage-in-Florida-Soils

Determining the depth and degree of lessivage (clay translocation) in Florida soils using the NRCS-NCSS Soil Characterization Database and the USDA Soil Taxonomy definiton of an argillic horizon.

To differentiate textural changes made from distinct depositional events from pedogenically-induced changes called lessivage, we used the uniformity index (UI) created by Creemans and Mokma (1986). To further support the UI analysis, we looked at the sand size distribution by horizon for each profile which was described as having an argillic horizon. If no depositional event occurred, then the difference between the sand size distribution should be small, since quartz is highly resistant to weathering and the sand fraction is immobile.

The depth of lessivage was defined as the top of the argillic horizon (illuvial zone).

The degree of lessivage was calculated with a modified I/E Index (Cremeens & Mokma, 1986) on the basis the profile developed from a single parent material.

Random forest classification and regression was used with the implementation of the R package ‘randomForest’ version 4.7-1.1 (Liaw & Wiener, 2022) in the base environment of R version 4.1.0 (R Core Team, 2021).

To investigate the importance of soil properties, the variable importance (VI) was calculated using the R package ‘pdp’ version 0.8.1 (Greenwell, 2022).

The assumption of independence for PDPs was checked and the resultant correlation matrix using Pearson’s correlation was created using the R package ‘corrplot’ version 0.92 (Wei et al., 2021).

Owner

  • Login: DColopietro
  • Kind: user
  • Location: Stephen F Austin State University

Citation (CITATION.cff)

# This CITATION.cff file was generated with cffinit.
# Visit https://bit.ly/cffinit to generate yours today!

cff-version: 1.2.0
title: Lessivage in Florida Soils
message: >-
  If you use this dataset, please cite it using the metadata
  from this file.
type: dataset
authors:
  - given-names: Daniel
    family-names: Colopietro
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0124-5686'
    affiliation: >-
      Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences Department, 
      University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. 
  - given-names: Julio
    family-names: Pachon
    affiliation: >-
      Sydney Institute of Agriculture, School of Life and
      Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney,
      Eveleigh, NSW 2015, Australia
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6378-7168'
  - given-names: Allan
    family-names: Bacon
    affiliation: >-
      Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences Department,
      University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9757-8834'
url: 'https://github.com/DColopietro/Lessivage-in-Florida-Soils'
abstract: >-
  Determining the depth and degree of lessivage (clay
  translocation) in Florida soils using the FSSC database
  and the USDA Soil Taxonomy definiton of an Argillic
  horizon.
keywords:
  - Argillic Horizon
  - Clay Translocation
  - Lessivage
  - Machine Learning
  - Random Forest Modeling
  - Illuvial Zone
  - Eluvial Zone
license: MIT

GitHub Events

Total
  • Watch event: 1
  • Push event: 49
Last Year
  • Watch event: 1
  • Push event: 49