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Percent sand in conterminous USA soils

Percent sand in conterminous USA soils

Oct 19, 2010 (Last modified Jan 20, 2011)

Created by Dominique Bachelet

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Description: Overlay of 2 sets of % sand in 3 layers of the soil profile, one at 800m and another one at 50km spatial grains, used in two different projects to simulate vegetation dynamics in the conterminous USA.

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Credits: Dominique Bachelet

Use Constraints: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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Tags: usa, vemap, soil, sand

About the Map Author

Dominique Bachelet

climate change scientist with Oregon State University

Dominique received her Master’s degree in 1978 in Lille (France) and her Ph.D. in 1983 from Colorado State University with a thesis focused on biogeochemical cycles in the shortgrass prairie. In 1984 she went to U.C. Riverside as a postdoc simulating nitrogen fixing shrubs in the Sonoran desert then...