What soil parameters?
water holding content, cation exchange capacity, porosity, salinity, pH, etc sir.
There are physical, chemical and microbiological soil parameters (more properly soil properties), such as:
Physical: texture, structure, permeability etc...
Chemical: pH, Salinity (EC)- we measure with pH, Cation exchange capacity etc...
Microbial: soil resporation, enzyme activites etc...
You can read about some methods in our paper:
Article Unexpected results in Chernozem soil respiration while measu...
or a more comprehensive study about the correlations between the properties here:
Article CO2, N2O and CH4 production/consumption potentials of soils ...
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