| SOCSuit {soilassessment} | R Documentation |
A function for assessing soil carbon suitability requirements for certain crops and trees
Description
This function determines the suitability classes for soil organic carbon requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees
Usage
SOCSuit(value, crop)
Arguments
value |
Input soil organic carbon content in percent. |
crop |
The crop of interest for which soil organic carbon suitability class is sought. |
Details
The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of soil organic carbon in percent
Value
The output is SOC suitability class for the crop. The output is an integer value for suitability class: 1- highly suitable; 2 - moderately suitable; 3 - marginally suitable; 4 - currently not suitable; 5 - not suitable
Author(s)
Christian Thine Omuto
References
Sys, C., Van Ranst, E., Debaveye, J. and Beerneaert, F.1993. Land evaluation: Part III: Crop requirements. Development Cooperation, Belgium.
Naidu, L.G.K., Ramamurthy, V., Challa O., Hegde, R. and Krishnan, P. 2006. Manual, Soil-site Suitability Criteria for Major Crops, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, ICAR, Nagpur, India
FAO Crop Suitability Requirements: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home
See Also
depthSuit, carbonateSuit, suitability
Examples
library(sp)
soc1=nutrindicator["soc"]
soc1$pyrethrum=SOCSuit(soc1$soc,"pyrethrum")
summary(soc1$pyrethrum)
spplot(soc1["pyrethrum"])