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Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-483-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-483-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
Original research article
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09 Oct 2020
Original research article |  | 09 Oct 2020

Development of a soil biological quality index for soils of semi-arid tropics

Selvaraj Aravindh, Chinnappan Chinnadurai, and Dananjeyan Balachandar

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Soil quality is important for functioning of the agricultural ecosystem to sustain productivity. It is combination of several physical, chemical, and biological attributes. In the present work, we developed a soil biological quality index, a sub-set of the soil quality index (SBQI) using six important biological variables. These variables were computed from long-term manurial experimental soils and transformed into a unitless 10-scaled SBQI. This will provide constraints of soil processes.
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