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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Soil condition monitoring MER 2008: final result matrix

Final results of the NSW soil condition monitoring 2008 baseline establishment for NSW. Soil Condition is the soil's ability to deliver ecosystem services and is rated for each of eight indicators from 5 (at or better than reference, natural or pristine condition) to 1 (very degraded) from a network of permanent sites, which are often paired across land uses. Intermediate ratings are based on functional thresholds for each indicator and are averaged from sites into soil monitoring units. Results are delivered for 124 soil monitoring units which are located in every catchment management region and collectively cover approximately one third of NSW. Indicators include sheet, wind and gully erosion, soil pH, soil carbon, soil structure, soil salinity and acid sulfate soils. The minimal spatial reporting entity is soil monitoring unit to protect site representativeness. These results are also presented and discussed in the Technical Report: OEH (2014), Soil condition and land management in NSW: final results from the 2008-09 monitoring evaluation and reporting program. http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/research-and-publications/publications-search/soil-condition-and-land-management-in-new-south-wales

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Language English
Edition 2
Purpose Summary of soil condition by soil monitoring unit (SMU) for each CMA in 2008-09 to serve as a baseline for soil condition. It should ultimately contribute to improved soil and land management across NSW
Frequency of change Not planned
Keywords soil,SOIL-Erosion,SOIL-Chemistry
Field of Research (optional) Land Capability and Soil Degradation
Metadata Date 2012-01-08
Date of Asset Creation 2012-08-01
Date of Asset Publication 2010-08-19
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 250000
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Record 1
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Geospatial Topic Environment
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Temporal Coverage From 2008-01-01 - 2009-06-30
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2010"