Soil Diversity as Affected by Land Use in China: Consequences for Soil Protection

Figure 3

Soil orders (a) and soil map units at lower taxonomic levels (b) per grid in China based on soil map and soil orders (c) and soil classes at lower taxonomic levels (d) per grid in China based on soil profiles. Each grid is 100 km × 100 km in area. (The taxonomic level of the soil map is shown in Figure 1.)

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