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Data description paper
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Data description paper |
| 27 Jan 2023
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Harmonized Soil Database of Ecuador (HESD): data from 2009 to 2015
Daphne Armas
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Departamento de Agronomía, Edif. CITEIIB, Universidad de
Almería, Almería, Spain
Centro Andaluz para la Evaluación y Seguimiento del Cambio Global
(CAESCG), Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
Mario Guevara
Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Campus Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico
Fernando Bezares
Departamento de Agronomía, Edif. CITEIIB, Universidad de
Almería, Almería, Spain
Fundación Cesefor, Soria, Spain
Rodrigo Vargas
Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Delaware, Newark,
DE, USA
Pilar Durante
Departamento de Agronomía, Edif. CITEIIB, Universidad de
Almería, Almería, Spain
Centro Andaluz para la Evaluación y Seguimiento del Cambio Global
(CAESCG), Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
Agresta Sociedad Cooperativa, 28012 Madrid, Spain
Víctor Osorio
Facultad de
ingeniería Marítima y Ciencias del Mar, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Wilmer Jiménez
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, Dirección de
Generación de Geoinformación Agropecuaria, Quito, Ecuador
Cecilio Oyonarte
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Departamento de Agronomía, Edif. CITEIIB, Universidad de
Almería, Almería, Spain
Centro Andaluz para la Evaluación y Seguimiento del Cambio Global
(CAESCG), Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
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The global need for updated soil datasets has increased. Our main objective was to synthesize and harmonize soil profile information collected by two different projects in Ecuador between 2009 and 2015.The main result was the development of the Harmonized Soil Database of Ecuador (HESD) that includes information from 13 542 soil profiles with over 51 713 measured soil horizons, including 92 different edaphic variables, and follows international standards for archiving and sharing soil data.
The global need for updated soil datasets has increased. Our main objective was to synthesize...
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