@conference {51001,
	title = {Spatial variability in dynamic soil properties: sampling requirements for a national database},
	booktitle = {Annual Meeting, Soil Science Society of America},
	year = {2001},
	month = {October 15, 2001},
	pages = {CD-ROM},
	abstract = {Sampling protocols that account for the spatial variability of near-surface dynamic soil properties are required in order to adequately characterize the temporal variability of these properties.  The spatial variability of dynamic properties (e.g., SOC, bulk density and infiltration capacity) is not known for most rangeland soils.  In order to better define sampling  requirements for rangelands, we measured a suite of near-surface dynamic soil properties in paired degraded and relatively undegraded plots located on four different soils representing four different ecological sites in the northern Chihuahuan Desert, southern New Mexico, USA.  We calculated the variance in soil and vegetation properties at three different spatial scales: (1) pedon (shrub-interspace), (2) polypedon of a soil map unit component (i.e., 60m diameter circle), and (3) ecological site. Preliminary results suggest that (1) both the scale and magnitude of  spatial variability are correlated with vegetation type, (2) sampling requirements can be significantly reduced by using stratified random sampling at the pedon (plant-interspace) scale, and (3) analysis costs can be further reduced by varying the number of samples depending on the level of spatial variability for a particular property.},
	author = {Jeffrey E. Herrick and A.J. Tugel and M.D. Remmenga and Laura M. Burkett and Norfleet, L.M. and C. Ditzler}
}
