About the Soil Health Gap
The Soil Health Gap is the soil health status in managed lands, including croplands, as compared to native, undisturbed sites in the same ecological region. Comparing the data from your managed land to that of undisturbed sites, the Soil Health Gap of your land begins to take shape and informs your management decisions.
For more information about the soil health gap concept to benchmark soil health management, please see Maharjan et al. 2022.
How to Use This Map
This website presents the land of Nebraska classified into small units (CREU; cropland reference ecological unit) accounting for edaphic and climatic variations and covering areas with presumably similar soil health potential, as explained in Das and Maharjan (2022).
To establishes the soil health gap in your land, sets soil health targets, and informs soil health management:
Locate your managed land by navigating on the map or inserting coordinate
Determine a CREU your land belongs to.
Access soil health data for a reference site in that CREU.
Compare and contrast the soil health of the land of interest against the reference site.