Research Article
Soil Quality Assessment Strategies for Evaluating Soil Degradation in Northern Ethiopia
Table 7
Dataset selection, scoring function, and indexing method comparisons for eight LUSMS in the Mai-Negus catchment of northern Ethiopia.
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denotes minimum dataset chosen using principal component analyses (PCA). denotes minimum dataset chosen by expert opinion (EO). IL: Liebig method LSF; IIL: Homothetic transformation method of LSF; IIIL: Glover method LSF; IN: CurveExpert method NLSF; IIN: Glover method NLSF; S: Sensitivity analysis; LSF: linear scoring function; NLSF: nonlinear scoring function. |