Lacunarity of the Spatial Distributions of Soil Types in Europe.

Caniego Monreal, Francisco and San Jose Martinez, Fernando and Ibáñez Martí, Juan José and Pérez Gómez, Rufino (2013). Lacunarity of the Spatial Distributions of Soil Types in Europe.. "Vadose Zone Journal", v. 12 (n. 3); pp. 1-9. ISSN 1539-1663. https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2012.0210.

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Title: Lacunarity of the Spatial Distributions of Soil Types in Europe.
Author/s:
  • Caniego Monreal, Francisco
  • San Jose Martinez, Fernando
  • Ibáñez Martí, Juan José
  • Pérez Gómez, Rufino
Item Type: Article
Título de Revista/Publicación: Vadose Zone Journal
Date: July 2013
ISSN: 1539-1663
Volume: 12
Subjects:
Faculty: E.T.S.I. Agrónomos (UPM) [antigua denominación]
Department: Matemática Aplicada a la Ingeniería Agronómica [hasta 2014]
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

Lacunarity as a means of quantifying textural properties of spatial distributions suggests a classification into three main classes of the most abundant soils that cover 92% of Europe. Soils with a well-defined self-similar structure of the linear class are related to widespread spatial patterns that are nondominant but ubiquitous at continental scale.

Fractal techniques have been increasingly and successfully applied to identify and describe spatial patterns in natural sciences. However, objects with the same fractal dimension can show very different optical properties because of their spatial arrangement. This work focuses primary attention on the geometrical structure of the geographical patterns of soils in Europe. We made use of the European Soil Database to estimate lacunarity indexes of the most abundant soils that cover 92% of the surface of Europe and investigated textural properties of their spatial distribution. We observed three main classes corresponding to three different patterns that displayed the graphs of lacunarity functions, that is, linear, convex, and mixed. They correspond respectively to homogeneous or self-similar, heterogeneous or clustered and those in which behavior can change at different ranges of scales. Finally, we discuss the pedological implications of that classification.

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Item ID: 26388
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/26388/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:26388
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0210
Official URL: https://www.soils.org/publications/vzj/abstracts/1...
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 25 Jun 2014 17:19
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2017 09:42
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