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Subaqueous soils: A pedological approach to the study of shallow-water habitats |
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| Authors: | G P Demas M C Rabenhorst J C Stevenson |
| Institution: | 1. United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Service, 301 Bank Street, 21863, Snow Hill, Maryland 2. Department of Agronomy H. J. Patterson Hall, University of Maryland, 20742, College Park, Maryland 3. Horn Point Environmental Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies, P. O. Box 775, 21613, Cambridge, Maryland |
| Abstract: | Science-based management of shallow-water habitats is limited by information on the spatial distribution of properties of sediments. This limitation in part stems from the lack of an adequate model or system to classify and delineate subaqueous soil types (sediments). Present classification systems are inadequate because the existing paradigm does not actually consider them as “soils” but merely as “sediments”. Field observations suggest that these sediments could be better understood as “soils”, and the present paradigm could be modified to incorporate a new one—a pedological paradigm. We propose the application of a pedological paradigm for subqueous soils of subtidal habitats to develop ecological interpretations of subaqueous soil types and apply an inventory of subaqueous soil resources for management of estuarine shallow-water habitats. *** DIRECT SUPPORT *** A01BY074 00009 |
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