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Editors of soils articles
New participants, simply add your name to this list using the template: (add me)

Active WikiProject Editors
(Source)
 * soil scientist

Active Subject-Area Editors in 2019
(Source)

In the hopper
April 24, 2019


 * 2.40.6.202
 * 24.241.60.176
 * 80.4.144.52
 * Akrasia25
 * Boghog
 * Franciseauze
 * Gah4
 * GeoWriter
 * Iztwoz
 * Jfponge
 * MethanoJen
 * Otto S. Knottnerus
 * Paleorthid
 * Prometheus720
 * Selaginellaa
 * Shellwood
 * Srich32977
 * Vsmith

Recently Active 3/28/19

 * --- - 2019: vandalized carbon sink
 * --- - 2019: vandalized Peat.
 * - 2019: atterberg limits, soil mechanics, hydraulic conductivity
 * - 2019: carbon cycle, deep Earth water cycle
 * soil scientist - 2019: soil horizon, International Union of Soil Sciences. 2018: talk:Umbrisol, FAO soil classification
 * soil biology, soil science. FR - 2019: soil. 2018: soil, Friedrich Albert Fallou
 * soil science. JP - 2019: soil
 * - prolific WP Soil editor
 * - 2019: groundwater recharge
 * - 2019: Orovada (soil)
 * - 2019: renewable resource, carbon cycle. 2018: bog, soil, biogeochemical cycle, humic substance, clay

Active in Project in 2019

 * - 2019: Soil acidification
 * --- blocked until 2020-01-15 - 2019: vandalized nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle
 * - 2019: nitrogen fixation
 * - 2019: soil contamination
 * --- blocked - 2019: vandalized sulfur cycle
 * - 2019: soil acidification. 2018: Invasive earthworms of North America, Cid (soil). 2016: soil pH. 2014: Olympic (soil)
 * - 2019: mycorrhizal fungi and soil carbon storage, glomalin
 * - 2019: Septic drain field
 * - 2019: Carbon cycle
 * --- - 2019: prolific edit patroller
 * - 2019: acid rain, fertilizer, nitrogen cycle
 * --- - add WP Soil tags
 * - 2019: soil. 2016: paleosol
 * soil scientist - 2019: soil horizon, International Union of Soil Sciences. 2018: talk:Umbrisol, FAO soil classification
 * - 2019 soil liquefaction. 2018: soil, soil moisture sensor, soil type, soil classification
 * - 2019: tillage
 * --- - 2019: ce cites on silt
 * - 2019: root nodule, nitrogen fixation
 * - 2019: added WP Limnology and Oceanography tags
 * soil biology, soil science. - 2019: soil. 2018: soil, Friedrich Albert Fallou
 * --- - 2019: prolific editor
 * DE - 2019: prolific editor. 2018: subsoil, soil horizon, pedogenesis
 * - 2019: nitrogen cycle
 * --- - 2019: prolific editor
 * - 2019: project banner, ammonia category.
 * --- - 2019: prolific editor
 * --- - 2019: Draft:Crop Science Society of America
 * - 2019: runoff curve number, porosity, 2018: water content, permeability (earth sciences), soil aggregate stability
 * - 2019: adding short descriptions. 2018: erosion,aeolian processes, loess, loam, Gully
 * - 2019: prolific editor
 * --- - 2019: vandalized dirt, mud
 * - 2019: soil functions
 * - 2019: soil acidification
 * - 2019: pioneer species
 * ---- 2019 (new)
 * - 2019: clay. 2018: clay
 * --- - 2019: prolific editor
 * scientist, naturalist. - 2019: septic tank, 2018: soil organic matter
 * - 2019: renewable resource,carbon cycle. 2018: bog, soil, biogeochemical cycle, humic substance, clay
 * - 2019: phosphorus cycle
 * - 2019: sulfur cycle

Last active in Project in 2018

 * - 2018: climate change mitigation
 * - 2018: permeability (earth sciences)
 * - 2019. 2018: agricultural soil science, index of soil-related articles, edaphology, environmental soil science, soil contamination
 * - 2019. 2018: pedology, pedogenesis, Clorpt, SCORPAN, pedometrics, pedometric mapping
 * - 2019. 2018: terra preta,septic drain field
 * - 2019. 2018: biogeochemical cycle, erosion, sand
 * - 2019. 2018: soil, organic matter
 * soil scientist DE-3 - 2019. 2018: Luvisol, talk:umbrisol, rendzina, cation-exchange capacity
 * - 2018: subaqueous soil
 * - 2019. 2018: terra preta, soil liquefaction
 * soil scientist, CSSS past president - 2018: podzol, chernozem, soil, soil science, Canadian Society of Soil Science
 * - 2019. 2018: biogeochemical cycle,terrestrial biological carbon cycle
 * - 2018: soil fertility
 * - 2018: soil classification, USDA soil taxonomy, Category:Soil science journals, V.V. Dokuchaev Central Museum of Soil. 2017: Polish Soil Classification, Soil Science Society of Poland
 * - 2019. 2018: biogeochemical cycle, nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle
 * 2018: soil salinity

prior participants
-- most recent year active -- most recent year with soil article edits --
 * - 2015: Alfred Hartemink
 * - 2019. 2017: User:Alandmanson/CEC_draft, soil pH. Interested in improving humus, soil, soil organic matter, and soil sodicity.
 * - 2016. 2014: pedogenesis
 * - 2014. no soil activity
 * - 2011. 2007 soil contamination
 * - 2018. soil activity prior to 2009
 * - 2019. 2015: soil, clay
 * - 2018. 2017: soil mechanics
 * - 2014: talk:laterite
 * - 2015. 2012: soil fertility
 * - 2016. 2012: rock glacier
 * - 2016. 2015: erosion
 * - 2017: Mineralization (soil science)
 * - 2015. 2011: soil morphology
 * - 2008. 2007: clay
 * - 2014. 2012: soil conditioner
 * soil scientist - 2011: Pedogenesis
 * - 2019. 2010: soil classification, soil quality
 * - 2018. 2008: No-till farming
 * soil scientist? - 2008: Australian Soil Classification
 * - 2010: WPSOIL. No actual soil article edits
 * soil scientist? - 2009: WPSOIL. No actual article edits
 * - 2009
 * soil scientist - 2006: USDA soil taxonomy, Pedalfer
 * WP:COPYEDITORS - 2019. 2017: Humus
 * - 2018. 2016: WPSOIL
 * - 2013: Selman Waksman, Soil science
 * - 2007: Cecil (soil)
 * - 2016. 2012: Leaching (agriculture)
 * - 2009
 * - 2014: Soil governance
 * - 2009. 2008: pedometrics, 2007:pedodiversity
 * - 2015: soil degradation
 * soil scientist - 2010: talk:pedology
 * - 2009
 * - 2015. No actual soil edits
 * - 2007. 2006: Podzol, Dokuchaev
 * 2018. 2008: Collaborated on waste-related articles peripheral to soils
 * DE - 2019. 2014: soil
 * 2017. Blocked. see Sockpuppet_investigations/Wolfkeeper/Archive. 2016: soil.

Archive

 * environmental issues, mapping, admin
 * soil chemistry, admin
 * citations, admin
 * civil engineering, int'l perspective, admin
 * geology and geography
 * geoscience, environmental engineering esp. water, wetlands, erosion, P cycle
 * editor
 * agronomy
 * geography
 * soils, int'l perspective
 * soils
 * biochemistry
 * ecology, biology, botany, and water quality
 * soil physics
 * mycology
 * meteorology
 * permaculture
 * organic farming
 * biology. + 05:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Others

 * 08DEC2005

Cat Policy
See WP:CAT, Help:Category, WP:CG and Categorization FAQ

Categories do not form a tree
Each Wikipedia article can appear in more than one category, and each category can appear in more than one parent category. Multiple categorization schemes co-exist simultaneously. In other words, categories do not form a strict hierarchy or tree structure, but a more general directed acyclic graph (or close to it, see below).

Nevertheless, parts of the category graph will be tree-like, and it may be convenient to think of parts of the category graph as being like multiple overlapping trees. When applying the guidelines above, consider each tree to be independent of the overlapping trees. A person browsing through a hierarchy should find every article that belongs in that hierarchy. This can lead to a good deal of debate as to what the hierarchies actually are. To clarify the structure of the hierarchy and help people browse through it, you can add a classification to each category. For more about this, see Classification.

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Although the MediaWiki software does not prevent cycles (loops), these usually should be avoided. Cycles can be confusing to some readers, they can challenge some automated searching processes and they can grow quite large. For example, in January 2006 a 22-member category cycle was discovered and eliminated.

However, acceptable loops also exist. Self-referencing systems such as the meta- fields naturally create cycles that provide many examples. This type of cycle involves making a category one of its own subcategories. A real-world example of a self-referencing system is “education about education,” such as:
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The cat main template
In many cases, a category will have a "main article" or "overview", which describes the subject of that category. In these cases the category and the article often have the same name. If this is the case, do the following: For such a category/article pair, the guidelines for what other categories the "main article" should be in are still being worked out. Normally articles should not appear both in a category and a "parent" of that category. Some editors feel that an exception should be made for the "main article" of a category&mdash;that in many cases the category system makes more sense if each main article appears in some or all of the categories that the equivalent category appears in. Others suggest that the main article should occur only in its like-named category and no others. The latter may be optimal if the category structure is in flux, but it is not optimal for browsing, where the user has to keep bouncing back an forth between the categories of "main" pages and other pages.
 * Add the "" tag in the category, after any description of the material covered by that category.
 * Arrange for the article to appear at the top of the list of articles in the category, by putting a vertical bar and a space after the category name in the Category: tag (e.g. ).

If the subject has count, then make the category name plural and create a redirect of that same, plural name, redirecting back to the singular name. For instance City and Category:Cities. That is, create a page called "Cities" and add the line


 * 1) REDIRECT City

This helps to prevent confusion by blocking others from creating a competing page that overlaps in scope and you will be able to use the cat main template without specifying any additional parameters.

In theory, if a main article is categorized correctly in its corresponding category, the use of the cat main template is redundant.
 * I understand this to mean it is redundant if category and article name are the same, if the category has an informative intro and the main articles sorts to the beginning of the article list. -- Paleorthid 22:39, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Source: Categorization_FAQ

Articles by Category
Bold articles are have soil as their primary category. (Infers that article cleanup falls on ediors maintaining soils-related articles.)

Category:Soil science (87)
expand intro. 87 articles as of 2019-01-09
 * 1) Soil science
 * Index of soil-related articles
 * 1938 USDA soil taxonomy
 * Albeluvisols <consider recat to soil type
 * Amplitude domain reflectometry
 * Arid
 * List of state soil science associations
 * Bevameter
 * Biosolarization
 * Börde
 * Catena (soil) <consider deleting toposequence
 * Defoliant <consider recat \
 * Drainage equation
 * Drainage research
 * Dryland salinity
 * Duplex soil
 * Earth's critical zone
 * Edaphology
 * Eluvium
 * Erosion dupe. category:environmental soil science.
 * Erosion index
 * Factors affecting permeability of soils
 * Ferrallitisation <what is it?
 * 1) Soil functions needs image. consider mv mapping section to soil survey and digital soil mapping.
 * Gäu <what is it?
 * Growing region
 * Haplocambids
 * History of soil science
 * 1) Humin
 * 2) Humus unreferenced. wikify.
 * Hydrological transport model
 * Hydropedology
 * Immobilization (soil science)
 * Kerogen unreferenced. needs image.
 * Latosol
 * Leaching (pedology)
 * Leaching model (soil)
 * Maas–Hoffman model <what is it?
 * Mineralization (soil science)
 * Needle ice <what is it?
 * Newmark's influence chart <what is it?
 * OU Citizen Science Soil Collection Program
 * Pedodiversity
 * Pedology
 * Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
 * Phosphate rich organic manure
 * Plaggen soil
 * Pore space in soil
 * Quick condition <what is it?
 * Residuum (geology)
 * Rhizotron
 * Salinity in Australia
 * Salt tolerance of crops
 * Saprolite
 * Sodium adsorption ratio
 * Soil aggregate stability
 * Soil biodiversity
 * Soil bioengineering
 * Soil biomantle
 * Soil carbon
 * Soil color
 * Soil compaction
 * Soil governance
 * Soil health
 * Soil biology
 * Soil management
 * Soil physics
 * Soil resilience
 * Soil salinity
 * Soil salinity control
 * Soil stabilization
 * Soil steam sterilization
 * Soil texture
 * Soil value
 * Soil water (retention)
 * Soil zoology
 * Stone line
 * Suffosion <what is it?
 * Thaw depth
 * Thickness (geology)
 * Throughflow
 * Tilth
 * Tree throw
 * USDA soil taxonomy
 * Van Genuchten–Gupta model <what is it?
 * Void ratio
 * Worm cast

- - previous - -
 * Land Allocation Decision Support System dupe category:environmental soil science
 * 1) Linear aeration unreferenced. potential copyvio. consider mv to category:edaphology. 
 * 2) List of State Soil Science Associations needs intro. poorly referenced. 
 * 3) List of State Soil Science Licensing Boards completed
 * 4) Organic material unreferenced.
 * 5) Plaggen soil unreferenced stub. wikify. consider mv to category:pedology.
 * 6) Rill unreferenced sci stub.
 * 7) Soil major cleanup in progress per WikiProject Science
 * 8) Soil Science Society of America organization-related stub
 * Soil conservation dupe. category:environmental soil science
 * 1) Soil test unreferenced, needs to be expanded.

Category:Soil biology (35)
add intro. 35 articles as of 2006-06-13
 * 1) Soil life cleanup. coordinate w/ soil biology.
 * 2) Soil biology cleanup.
 * Actinobacteria
 * Arbuscular mycorrhiza
 * Biogeology unreferenced ecology stub and geology stub.
 * 1) Bulk soil completed. 
 * Carbon cycle dupe category:soil chemistry. (completed.)
 * Compost unreferenced. (Red58bill (talk) 19:24, 17 March 2009 (UTC))
 * 1) Soil crust exp to incl other POV. poss merge w/ cryptobiotic soil.
 * 2) Cryptobiotic soil exp to incl other POV. poss merge w/ soil crust.
 * Denitrifying bacteria dupe category:nitrogen metabolism.
 * Earthworm unreferenced.
 * 1) Soil ecology complete
 * Entomopathogenic nematode
 * Mycorrhizal fungi
 * 1) Glomalin unreferenced science stub.
 * Glomeromycota
 * Micromonosporaceae
 * Effective Microorganisms
 * Mycorrhiza
 * Nitrate fixation dupe category:nitrogen metabolism.
 * Nitrification dupe category:nitrogen metabolism.
 * Nitrogen cycle consider move or dupe to category:soil chemistry.
 * Nitrogen fixation dupe category:nitrogen metabolism.
 * Nitrosomonas
 * Phosphorus cycle dupe to category:soil chemistry.
 * Rhizobia
 * Rhizobiales
 * 1) Rhizosphere (ecology) expand.
 * Root
 * Root nodule
 * Fibrous root system
 * Taproot
 * 1) Soil food web biology stub.
 * Sulfur cycle dupe to category:soil chemistry.

Category:Nitrogen metabolism (31)
good intro. 31 articles as of 2006-06-13
 * Amino acid
 * Ammonia expand section on effects on water quality, humans, fish, livestock, w/references. expand fertilizer use content.
 * Anammox unreferenced.
 * Blood urea nitrogen
 * Denitrification unreferenced.
 * Denitrifying bacteria unreferenced.
 * Diazotroph micro-stub proteobacteria-stub horticulture-stub. needs cite.php
 * Essential amino acid unreferenced.
 * Fabaceae unreferenced.
 * Fertilizer dupe category:agricultural soil science
 * Guano unreferenced. expand fertilizer use content. consider mv to category:agricultural soil science
 * Nitrate expand section on effects on water quality, humans, fish, livestock, w/references
 * Nitric oxide
 * Nitrification unreferenced.
 * Nitrite expand section on effects on water quality, humans, fish, livestock, w/references
 * Nitrogen assimilation expand. unreferenced.
 * Nitrogen cycle dupe to category:soil chemistry
 * Nitrogen deficiency dupe category:physiological plant disorders
 * Nitrogen fixation unreferenced. merge with nitrate fixation.
 * Nitrogen narcosis
 * Nitrogenase
 * Nitrosamine unreferenced.
 * Nitrous acid inorganic-compound-stub. unreferenced.
 * Nitrous oxide
 * Nucleic acid
 * Rhizobia dupe category:soil biology
 * Root nodule dupe category:soil biology
 * Urea unreferenced. expand fertilizer use content. consider mv to category:agricultural soil science
 * Urea cycle unreferenced.
 * Uremia med-stub. unreferenced.
 * Uric acid expert cleanup-date(October 2005). unreferenced.

Category:Soil chemistry (21)
note - add intro to cat -- 05:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC) 21 articles as of 2006-06-17
 * 1) Soil chemistry chem stub.
 * Calcareous
 * Carbon cycle completed.
 * 1) Cation exchange capacity chem stub.
 * 2) Clay minerals
 * Dopplerite 'dupe category:pedology
 * Fertilizer 'dupe category:agricultural soil science
 * Organic geochemistry
 * 1) Glomalin sci-stub
 * 2) Humic acid organic-chem-stub
 * Integrated Pest Management
 * 1) Liming agri-stub
 * Organosulfur compounds
 * 1) Soil pH tagged for cleanup and references
 * Phosphorus cycle
 * Redox
 * Reducing environment
 * 1) Soil acidification chem-stub
 * Soil contamination dupe
 * Sulfur cycle
 * Weathering

Category:Edaphology (6)
Good intro. 6 articles as of 2006-06-13
 * 1) Edaphology sci-stub High importance to WP Soil
 * 2) Soil conditioner agri-stub
 * Liming dupe
 * Nutrient
 * Plant nutrition
 * 1) Soil correcting salinity merge w soil salination

Category:Agricultural soil science (20)
Add intro to cat -- 06:23, 9 June 2006 (UTC) 20 articles as of 2006-06-13
 * 1) Agricultural soil science agri-stub High importance to WP Soil
 * Agroecology
 * 1) Available water capacity physics-stub. consider mv to category:edaphology.
 * Contour plowing
 * Cover crop
 * Crop rotation
 * 1) Drainage unreferenced. consider mv to category:edaphology. 
 * 2) Fertile soil agri-stub
 * 3) Fertilizer
 * Irrigation
 * Lynchet
 * 1) Moisture stress unreferenced. biol-stub. consider mv to category:edaphology. 
 * 2) No-till farming
 * Nutrient budgeting
 * Nutrient management
 * Open field system
 * Precision agriculture
 * Ridge and furrow
 * Rothamsted Experimental Station
 * 1) Tillage Unreferenced

Category:Environmental soil science (56)
Add intro to cat -- 17:22, 10 June 2006 (UTC) 56 articles as of 2006-06-13
 * 1) Environmental soil science sci-stub High importance to WP Soil
 * 2) International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils Unreferenced org-stub
 * Bay mud dupe to category:soil science
 * Biodiversity
 * Biofilm
 * Biofilter
 * Bioremediation
 * Biosolids
 * Bioswale
 * Biotope
 * Carbon dioxide sink
 * Climate change and agriculture
 * 1) Soil conservation High importance to WP Soil
 * 2) consider mv to category:edaphology. duped in category:soil science
 * 3) note possible cat cycling of articles related to category:conservation
 * Constructed wetland
 * 1) Soil contamination
 * 2) Derelict soil environment-stub
 * Desertification
 * Downhill creep
 * 1) Erosion consider mv to category:edaphology. High importance to WP Soil
 * 2) Erosion control engineering-stub agriculture-stubconsider mv to category:edaphology. 
 * 3) Erosion prediction consider mv to category:edaphology. 
 * Eutrophication
 * Greywater
 * Gully
 * Hardscape
 * Humanure
 * Impervious surface
 * Land Allocation Decision Support System
 * 1) Land degradation consider mv to category:edaphology. 
 * 2) Land reclamation consider mv to category:edaphology.
 * 3) Land rehabilitation consider mv to category:edaphology.
 * Landscape ecology consider mv to category:edaphology.
 * Landslide
 * Leachate consider mv to category:edaphology.
 * Soil liquefaction
 * Mass wasting
 * Night soil
 * Polder
 * Prairie Restoration
 * Restoration ecology
 * Riparian zone
 * Riprap
 * Schmutzdecke
 * Sediment
 * 1) Septic drain field industry-stub
 * Sewage treatment
 * Slow sand filter
 * 1) Soil salination Unreferenced consider mv to category:edaphology.
 * 2) Soils retrogression and degradation fact consider mv to category:edaphology.
 * Storm water
 * Surface runoff
 * 1) Terra preta consider mv to category:edaphology.
 * Terrestrial ecoregion
 * Wastewater
 * Wastewater quality indicators
 * Water pollution

Category:Physiological plant disorders (9)
Add intro to cat 9 articles as of 2006-06-13 For further information see '''Physiological plant disorders. add to cat'''
 * Boron deficiency (plant disorder)
 * Calcium deficiency (plant disorder)
 * Chlorosis (plant disorder)
 * Iron deficiency (plant disorder)
 * Magnesium deficiency
 * Manganese deficiency
 * Nitrogen deficiency
 * Phosphorus deficiency
 * Potassium deficiency (plants)

Category:Pedology (97)
Add intro to cat done 18:22, 8 June 2006 (UTC) 97 articles as of 2006-06-17
 * 1) Pedology (soil study) High importance to WP Soil
 * 2) Acrisol unreferenced, agri-stub
 * 3) Active layer unreferenced
 * 4) Alcrete unreferenced, agri-stub
 * 5) Alfisols geol-stub
 * 6) Alluvial desert geol-stub (strange little article)
 * 7) Andisols
 * International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils dupe [:category:edaphology]
 * 1) Aridisols geo-term-stub
 * 2) Biorhexistasy
 * 3) Bog
 * 4) Brown earth
 * 5) Brown podzolic
 * 6) Caliche (Mineral)
 * 7) Cecil (soil) sci-stub
 * 8) Chernozem geol-stub
 * 9) FAO soil classification
 * 10) Soil classification
 * 11) Clay
 * 12) Claypan geol-stub
 * 13) Clorpt
 * 14) Cryoturbation Unreferenced
 * 15) Digital soil mapping
 * 16) Dopplerite botany-stub
 * 17) Entisol
 * 18) Eolian Unreferenced
 * 19) Fen
 * 20) Frost heaving
 * 21) Fuller's earth
 * 22) Gelisols
 * 23) Gley soil Unreferenced geol-stub
 * 24) Grain size
 * 25) Gypsisols Unreferenced geol-stub
 * 26) Hardpan Unreferenced cleanup
 * 27) Histosol
 * 28) Soil horizonUnreferenced expansion
 * 29) Hydric soil 
 * Hydrophobic soil dupe in category:pedology
 * 1) Kalkaska Sand
 * 2) Laterite
 * 3) Loam geol-stub
 * 4) Loess
 * 5) Soil map
 * 6) Marsh Unreferenced
 * 7) Mollisols
 * 8) Soil morphology
 * 9) Muck (soil)
 * 10) Muskeg
 * 11) Orthent Unreferenced
 * 12) Oxisol 
 * 13) Paleopedological record
 * 14) Paleopedology
 * 15) Paleosol
 * 16) Palygorskite
 * 17) Parent material geol-stub
 * 18) Peat Unreferenced
 * 19) Pedalfer geol-stub
 * 20) Pedocal geol-stub
 * 21) Pedogenesis
 * 22) Pedometrics
 * 23) Pedosphere
 * Pedotransfer function dupe in category:soil physics
 * 1) Permafrost
 * 2) Podsol
 * 3) Port Silt Loam sci-stub
 * 4) Psamment Unreferenced
 * 5) Pygmy forest topography-stub
 * 6) Rendzina sci-stub Unreferenced

Current progress

 * 1) Saltmarsh
 * 2) Sand
 * 3) Saprolite geol-stub
 * 4) Scorpan
 * 5) Silt
 * 6) Soil inference system
 * 7) Soil production function
 * 8) Soil profile
 * 9) Soil survey
 * 10) Solonetz
 * 11) Soil structure
 * 12) Stuttgart (soil)
 * 13) Subsoil
 * 14) Swamp
 * 15) Talik
 * 16) 1938 USDA soil taxonomy
 * 17) USDA soil taxonomy
 * 18) Soil texture classification
 * 19) Soil texture
 * 20) Topsoil
 * 21) Soil type
 * 22) List of U.S. state soils
 * 23) Udic moisture regime
 * 24) Ultisols
 * 25) Ustochrept
 * 26) Vertisol
 * 27) Wind Erosion on European Light Soils
 * 28) World Reference Base for Soil Resources 

Category:Soil physics (43)
Add intro to cat 43 articles as of 2006-06-17
 * 1) Soil physics
 * Atterberg Limits
 * 1) Bulk density
 * 2) Capillary fringe
 * 3) Curve number physics-stub geology-stub agriculture-stub
 * Darcy's law
 * 1) Deep drainage
 * 2) Depression storage capacity
 * 3) Disc permeameter
 * Ecohydrology
 * 1) Field capacity
 * 2) Gas diffusion in soil
 * Horton overland flow
 * 1) Hydraulic conductivity
 * 2) Hydrophobic soil
 * 3) Infiltration (hydrology)
 * 4) Infiltration capacity
 * 5) Infiltrometer
 * Integral energy
 * Liquid limit
 * 1) Macropore
 * 2) Mariotte's bottle
 * 3) Moisture equivalent
 * 4) Soil moisture
 * 5) Nonlimiting water range
 * 6) Optimum water content for tillage wikify
 * 7) Pedotransfer function
 * 8) Perc test
 * 9) Permanent wilting point
 * 10) Permeability (soil science)
 * Plasticity index
 * 1) Porosity
 * 2) Slope stability
 * 3) Soil plant atmosphere continuum sci-stub
 * Sorptivity
 * 1) Tensiometer
 * 2) Soil thermal properties
 * Thixotropy
 * 1) Vadose zone
 * 2) Water content
 * Water cycle
 * 1) Water potential
 * 2) Water retention curve

Category:Soil scientists (17)
17 articles as of 2006-06-13
 * 1) List of soil scientists
 * 2) Hugh Hammond Bennett
 * C. Fred Bentley
 * 1) Lyman James Briggs
 * Edgar Buckingham
 * Humphry Davy
 * 1) Vasily V. Dokuchaev
 * 2) Eugene W. Hilgard
 * Robert E. Horton
 * 1) Hans Jenny (pedologist)
 * 2) John R. Philip
 * Franklin Hiram King
 * Bernard Palissy
 * Lorenzo A. Richards
 * 1) Pedro Sanchez
 * Selman Waksman
 * 1) Sergei Winogradsky

Selected for WikiProject Soil

 * 1) Soil acidification
 * 2) Acrisol
 * 3) Active layer
 * 4) Agricultural soil science
 * 5) Alcrete
 * 6) Alfisols
 * 7) Alluvial desert
 * 8) Andisols
 * 9) Aridisols
 * 10) International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils
 * 11) Available water capacity
 * 12) Hugh Hammond Bennett
 * 13) Soil biology
 * 14) Biorhexistasy
 * 15) Bioturbation 
 * 16) Bog
 * 17) Brown earth
 * 18) Brown podzolic
 * 19) Lyman James Briggs
 * 20) Bulk density
 * 21) Bulk soil 
 * 22) Caliche (Mineral)
 * 23) Capillary fringe
 * 24) Cation exchange capacity
 * 25) Cecil (soil)
 * 26) Soil chemistry
 * 27) Chernozem
 * 28) FAO soil classification
 * 29) Soil classification
 * 30) Clay
 * 31) Clay minerals
 * 32) Claypan
 * 33) Clorpt
 * 34) Soil conditioner
 * 35) Soil conservation
 * 36) Soil contamination
 * 37) Soil crust
 * 38) Cryptobiotic soil
 * 39) Cryoturbation
 * 40) Curve number
 * 41) Deep drainage
 * 42) Digital soil mapping
 * 43) Disc permeameter
 * 44) Vasily V. Dokuchaev
 * 45) Dopplerite
 * 46) Drainage
 * 47) Soil ecology
 * 48) Edaphology
 * 49) Entisol
 * 50) Environmental soil science
 * 51) Eolian
 * 52) Erosion
 * 53) Erosion control
 * 54) Erosion prediction
 * 55) Fen
 * 56) Fertile soil
 * 57) Fertilizer
 * 58) Field capacity
 * 59) Frost heaving
 * 60) Fuller's earth
 * 61) Soil functions
 * 62) Gas diffusion in soil
 * 63) Gelisols
 * 64) Glomalin
 * 65) Gley soil
 * 66) Grain size
 * 67) Glomalin
 * 68) Gypsisols
 * 69) Hardpan
 * 70) Eugene W. Hilgard
 * 71) Histosol
 * 72) Soil horizon
 * 73) Humic acid
 * 74) Humin
 * 75) Humus
 * 76) Hydraulic conductivity
 * 77) Hydric soil
 * 78) Hydrophobic soil
 * 79) Infiltration (hydrology)
 * 80) Infiltration capacity
 * 81) Infiltrometer
 * 82) IUSS
 * 83) Hans Jenny (pedologist)
 * 84) Kalkaska Sand
 * 85) Land degradation
 * 86) Land reclamation
 * 87) Land rehabilitation
 * 88) Laterite
 * 89) Soil life
 * 90) Liming
 * 91) Linear aeration
 * 92) List of State Soil Science Associations
 * 93) List of State Soil Science Licensing Boards
 * 94) List of Universities with Soil Science Curriculum
 * 95) List of soil scientists
 * 96) Loam
 * 97) Loess
 * 98) Macropore
 * 99) Soil map
 * 100) Mariotte's bottle
 * 101) Marsh
 * 102) Soil moisture
 * 103) Moisture equivalent
 * 104) Moisture stress
 * 105) Mollisols
 * 106) Soil morphology
 * 107) Muck (soil)
 * 108) Muskeg
 * 109) No-till farming
 * 110) Nonlimiting water range
 * 111) Optimum water content for tillage
 * 112) Organic material
 * 113) Orthent
 * 114) Oxisol
 * 115) Paleopedological record
 * 116) Paleopedology
 * 117) Paleosol
 * 118) Palygorskite
 * 119) Parent material
 * 120) Peat
 * 121) Pedalfer
 * 122) Pedocal
 * 123) Pedogenesis
 * 124) Pedology (soil study)
 * 125) Pedometrics
 * 126) Pedosphere
 * 127) Pedotransfer function
 * 128) Perc test
 * 129) Permafrost
 * 130) Permanent wilting point
 * 131) Permeability (soil science)
 * 132) Plaggen soil
 * 133) Porosity
 * 134) Soil pH
 * 135) John R. Philip
 * 136) Soil physics
 * 137) Podsol
 * 138) Port Silt Loam
 * 139) Psamment
 * 140) Pygmy forest
 * 141) Rendzina
 * 142) Rhizosphere (ecology)
 * 143) Rill
 * 144) Soil salination
 * 145) Soil correcting salinity
 * 146) Saltmarsh
 * 147) Pedro Sanchez
 * 148) Sand
 * 149) Saprolite
 * 150) Scorpan
 * 151) Septic drain field
 * 152) Silt
 * 153) Slope stability
 * 154) Soil
 * 155) Soil food web
 * 156) Soil inference system
 * 157) Soil plant atmosphere continuum
 * 158) Soil production function
 * 159) Soil profile
 * 160) Soils retrogression and degradation
 * 161) Soil science
 * 162) Soil Science Society of America
 * 163) Soil survey
 * 164) Soil test
 * 165) Solonetz
 * 166) Soil structure
 * 167) Stuttgart (soil)
 * 168) Subsoil
 * 169) Swamp
 * 170) Talik
 * 171) 1938 USDA soil taxonomy
 * 172) USDA soil taxonomy
 * 173) Tensiometer
 * 174) Terra preta
 * 175) Soil texture classification
 * 176) Soil texture
 * 177) Soil thermal properties
 * 178) Tillage
 * 179) Topsoil
 * 180) Soil type
 * 181) List of U.S. state soils
 * 182) Udic moisture regime
 * 183) Ultisols
 * 184) Ustochrept
 * 185) Vadose zone
 * 186) Vertisol
 * 187) Water content
 * 188) Water potential
 * 189) Water retention curve
 * 190) Wind Erosion on European Light Soils
 * 191) World Reference Base for Soil Resources
 * 192) Sergei Winogradsky

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 * 1) Soil acidification
 * 2) Acrisol
 * Actinobacteria
 * 1) Active layer
 * 2) Agricultural soil science
 * Agroecology
 * 1) Alcrete
 * 2) Alfisols
 * 3) Alluvial desert
 * Amino acid
 * Ammonia
 * Anammox
 * 1) Andisols
 * Arbuscular mycorrhiza
 * 1) Aridisols
 * 2) International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils
 * Atterberg Limits
 * 1) Available water capacity
 * Bay mud
 * 1) Hugh Hammond Bennett
 * C. Fred Bentley
 * Biodiversity
 * Biofilm
 * Biofilter
 * 1) Soil biology
 * Biogeology
 * Bioremediation
 * 1) Biorhexistasy
 * Biosolids
 * Bioswale
 * Biotope
 * 1) Bioturbation 
 * Blood urea nitrogen
 * 1) Bog
 * Boron deficiency (plant disorder)
 * 1) Brown earth
 * 2) Brown podzolic
 * 3) Lyman James Briggs
 * Edgar Buckingham
 * 1) Bulk density
 * 2) Bulk soil 
 * Calcareous
 * Calcium deficiency (plant disorder)
 * 1) Caliche (Mineral)
 * 2) Capillary fringe
 * Carbon cycle
 * Carbon dioxide sink
 * 1) Cation exchange capacity
 * 2) Cecil (soil)
 * 3) Soil chemistry
 * 4) Chernozem
 * Chlorosis (plant disorder)
 * 1) FAO soil classification
 * 2) Soil classification
 * 3) Clay
 * 4) Clay minerals
 * 5) Claypan
 * Climate change and agriculture
 * 1) Clorpt
 * Compost
 * 1) Soil conditioner
 * 2) Soil conservation
 * Constructed wetland
 * 1) Soil contamination
 * Contour plowing
 * Cover crop
 * Crop rotation
 * 1) Soil crust
 * 2) Cryptobiotic soil
 * 3) Cryoturbation
 * 4) Curve number
 * Darcy's law
 * Humphry Davy
 * 1) Deep drainage
 * Denitrification
 * Denitrifying bacteria
 * Desertification
 * Diazotroph
 * 1) Digital soil mapping
 * 2) Disc permeameter
 * 3) Vasily V. Dokuchaev
 * 4) Dopplerite
 * Downhill creep
 * 1) Drainage
 * Earthworm
 * Ecological land classification
 * 1) Soil ecology
 * Ecosystem ecology
 * Entomopathogenic nematode
 * Ecohydrology
 * 1) Edaphology
 * 2) Entisol
 * 3) Environmental soil science
 * 4) Eolian
 * 5) Erosion
 * 6) Erosion control
 * 7) Erosion prediction
 * Essential amino acid
 * Eutrophication
 * Fabaceae
 * 1) Fen
 * 2) Fertile soil
 * 3) Fertilizer
 * 4) Field capacity
 * 5) Frost heaving
 * Frost line
 * 1) Fuller's earth
 * 2) Soil functions
 * 3) Gas diffusion in soil
 * 4) Gelisols
 * Organic geochemistry
 * 1) Glomalin
 * Glomeromycota
 * 1) Gley soil
 * 2) Grain size
 * Greywater
 * 1) Glomalin
 * Guano
 * Gully
 * 1) Gypsisols
 * 2) Hardpan
 * Hardscape
 * 1) Eugene W. Hilgard
 * 2) Histosol
 * 3) Soil horizon
 * Robert E. Horton
 * Horton overland flow
 * Humanure
 * 1) Humic acid
 * 2) Humin
 * 3) Humus
 * 4) Hydraulic conductivity
 * 5) Hydric soil
 * 6) Hydrophobic soil
 * Impervious surface
 * 1) Infiltration (hydrology)
 * 2) Infiltration capacity
 * 3) Infiltrometer
 * Integral energy
 * Integrated Pest Management
 * Irrigation
 * Iron deficiency (plant disorder)
 * 1) IUSS
 * 2) Hans Jenny (pedologist)
 * 3) Kalkaska Sand
 * Kerogen
 * Franklin Hiram King
 * Land Allocation Decision Support System
 * 1) Land degradation
 * 2) Land reclamation
 * 3) Land rehabilitation
 * Landscape ecology
 * Landslide
 * 1) Laterite
 * Leachate
 * Leaching
 * 1) Soil life
 * 2) Liming
 * 3) Linear aeration
 * Liquid limit
 * 1) List of State Soil Science Associations
 * 2) List of State Soil Science Licensing Boards
 * 3) List of Universities with Soil Science Curriculum
 * Soil liquefaction
 * 1) List of soil scientists
 * 2) Loam
 * 3) Loess
 * Lynchet
 * 1) Macropore
 * Magnesium deficiency
 * Manganese deficiency
 * 1) Soil map
 * 2) Mariotte's bottle
 * 3) Marsh
 * Mass wasting
 * Micromonosporaceae
 * Effective Microorganisms
 * 1) Soil moisture
 * 2) Moisture equivalent
 * 3) Moisture stress
 * 4) Mollisols
 * 5) Soil morphology
 * 6) Muck (soil)
 * 7) Muskeg
 * Mycorrhiza
 * Mycorrhizal fungi
 * Night soil
 * Nitrate
 * Nitric oxide
 * Nitrification
 * Nitrite
 * Nitrogen assimilation
 * Nitrogen cycle
 * Nitrogen deficiency
 * Nitrogen fixation
 * Nitrogen narcosis
 * Nitrogenase
 * Nitrosamine
 * Nitrosomonas
 * Nitrous acid
 * Nitrous oxide
 * 1) No-till farming
 * 2) Nonlimiting water range
 * Nucleic acid
 * Nutrient
 * Nutrient budgeting
 * Nutrient management
 * Open field system
 * 1) Optimum water content for tillage
 * 2) Organic material
 * Organosulfur compounds
 * 1) Orthent
 * 2) Oxisol
 * 3) Paleopedological record
 * 4) Paleopedology
 * 5) Paleosol
 * Bernard Palissy
 * 1) Palygorskite
 * 2) Parent material
 * 3) Peat
 * 4) Pedalfer
 * 5) Pedocal
 * 6) Pedogenesis
 * 7) Pedology (soil study)
 * 8) Pedometrics
 * 9) Pedosphere
 * 10) Pedotransfer function
 * 11) Perc test
 * 12) Permafrost
 * 13) Permanent wilting point
 * 14) Permeability (soil science)
 * 15) Plaggen soil
 * Plant nutrition
 * Plasticity index
 * Polder
 * 1) Porosity
 * 2) Soil pH
 * 3) John R. Philip
 * Phosphorus cycle
 * Phosphorus deficiency
 * 1) Soil physics
 * 2) Podsol
 * 3) Port Silt Loam
 * Potassium deficiency (plants)
 * Prairie Restoration
 * Precision agriculture
 * 1) Psamment
 * 2) Pygmy forest
 * Redox
 * Reducing environment
 * 1) Rendzina
 * Restoration ecology
 * Rhizobia
 * Rhizobiales
 * 1) Rhizosphere (ecology)
 * Lorenzo A. Richards
 * Ridge and furrow
 * 1) Rill
 * Riparian zone
 * Riprap
 * Root
 * Root nodule
 * Fibrous root system
 * Rothamsted Experimental Station
 * 1) Soil salination
 * 2) Soil correcting salinity
 * 3) Saltmarsh
 * 4) Pedro Sanchez
 * 5) Sand
 * 6) Saprolite
 * Schmutzdecke
 * 1) Scorpan
 * Sediment
 * 1) Septic drain field
 * Sewage treatment
 * 1) Silt
 * 2) Slope stability
 * Slow sand filter
 * 1) Soil
 * 2) Soil food web
 * 3) Soil inference system
 * 4) Soil plant atmosphere continuum
 * 5) Soil production function
 * 6) Soil profile
 * 7) Soils retrogression and degradation
 * 8) Soil science
 * 9) Soil Science Society of America
 * 10) Soil survey
 * 11) Soil test
 * 12) Solonetz
 * Sorptivity
 * 1) Soil structure
 * Storm water
 * 1) Stuttgart (soil)
 * 2) Subsoil
 * Sulfur cycle
 * Surface runoff
 * 1) Swamp
 * 2) Talik
 * Taproot
 * 1) 1938 USDA soil taxonomy
 * 2) USDA soil taxonomy
 * 3) Tensiometer
 * 4) Terra preta
 * Terrestrial ecoregion
 * 1) Soil texture classification
 * 2) Soil texture
 * 3) Soil thermal properties
 * Thixotropy
 * 1) Tillage
 * 2) Topsoil
 * 3) Soil type
 * 4) List of U.S. state soils
 * 5) Udic moisture regime
 * 6) Ultisols
 * Urea
 * Urea cycle
 * Uremia
 * Uric acid
 * 1) Ustochrept
 * 2) Vadose zone
 * 3) Vertisol
 * Selman Waksman
 * Wastewater
 * Wastewater quality indicators
 * 1) Water content
 * Water cycle
 * Water pollution
 * 1) Water potential
 * 2) Water retention curve
 * Weathering
 * 1) Wind Erosion on European Light Soils
 * 2) World Reference Base for Soil Resources
 * 3) Sergei Winogradsky

Soil Series of the USA

 * Antigo (soil)
 * Bama (soil)
 * Casa Grande (soil)
 * Cecil (soil)
 * Cid (soil)
 * Downer (soil)
 * Drummer (soil)
 * Greenwich (soil)
 * Guelph soil
 * Hilo (soil)
 * Houdek (soil)
 * Houston black (soil)
 * Jory (soil)
 * Kalkaska sand
 * Menfro
 * Miami (soil)
 * Myakka (soil)
 * Narragansett (soil)
 * Natchez silt loam
 * Olympic (soil)
 * Orovada (soil)
 * Paxton (soil)
 * Port Silt Loam
 * San Joaquin (soil)
 * Scobey (soil)
 * Seitz (soil)
 * Stuttgart (soil)
 * Tanana (soil)
 * Threebear (soil)
 * Tifton (soil)
 * Windsor (soil)

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references related to World Reference Base for Soil Resources
[http://www.isric.org/ISRIC/webdocs/docs/major_soils_of_the_world/set2/at/anthroso.pdf Major Soils of the World. ISRIC, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 2001]

IUSS Working Group WRB: World Reference Base for Soil Resources]] 2014, Update 2015. World Soil Resources Reports 106, FAO, Rome 2015. ISBN 978-92-5-108369-7. (PDF 2,3 MB).