Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BECIDA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BECIDA, and applied along 1-cm thick depth slices. Solid lines are the slice-wise median, bounded on either side by the interval defined by the slice-wise 5th and 95th percentiles. The median is the value that splits the data in half. Five percent of the data are less than the 5th percentile, and five percent of the data are greater than the 95th percentile. Values along the right hand side y-axis describe the proportion of pedon data that contribute to aggregate values at this depth. For example, a value of "90%" at 25cm means that 90% of the pedons correlated to BECIDA were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRALab IDPedon IDTaxonnameCINSSL / NASIS ReportsLink To SoilWeb GMap
57UMN0429S1962MN111429Becida1Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.507118,-95.2210883
57UMN0428S1962MN159428Becida2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.5154234,-95.1322184
57UMN0408S1963MN111408Becida2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.5144226,-95.1645341
57UMN0491S1963MN111491Becida1Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.4850842,-95.1896245
5782P0064S1981MN153004Becida7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.2672234,-95.0030594
57UMN3511S1981MN153004 (3511)Becida3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.2672234,-95.0030594

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BECIDA soil series. Monthly precipitation (PPT) and potential evapotranspiration (PET) have been estimated from the 50th percentile of gridded values (PRISM 1981-2010) overlapping with the extent of SSURGO map units containing each series as a major component. Monthly PET values were estimated using the method of Thornthwaite (1948). These (and other) climatic parameters are calculated with each SSURGO refresh and provided by the fetchOSD function of the soilDB package. Representative water storage values (“AWC” in the figures) were derived from SSURGO by taking the 50th percentile of profile-total water storage (sum[awc_r * horizon thickness]) for each soil series. Note that this representation of “water storage” is based on the average ability of most plants to extract soil water between 15 bar (“permanent wilting point”) and 1/3 bar (“field capacity”) matric potential. Soil moisture state can be roughly interpreted as “dry” when storage is depleted, “moist” when storage is between 0mm and AWC, and “wet” when there is a surplus. Clearly there are a lot of assumptions baked into this kind of monthly water balance. This is still a work in progress.

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Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the BECIDA series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot , parsed OSD records and snapshot of SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the BECIDA series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the BECIDA series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Small Shannon entropy values suggest relatively consistent geomorphic association, while larger values suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records .

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There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with BECIDA share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records and snapshot of the SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the BECIDA series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the BECIDA series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Shannon entropy values close to 0 represent soil series with relatively consistent geomorphic association, while values close to 1 suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records .

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There are insufficient data to create the 3D hills figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BECIDA, arranged according to family differentiae. Hovering over a series name will print full classification and a small sketch from the OSD. Source: snapshot of SC database .

Block Diagrams

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  1. MN-2010-09-08-23 | Otter Tail County - 2001

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Blowers-Paddock-Cathro association (Soil Survey of Otter Tail County, Minnesota; 2001).

Map Units

Map units containing BECIDA as a major component. Limited to 250 records.

Map Unit Name Symbol Map Unit Area (ac) Map Unit Key National Map Unit Symbol Soil Survey Area Publication Date Map Scale
Paddock-Becida, stony, complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes132179803974772sxm7mn00519941:20000
Paddock-Becida, stony, complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes7032313977562sxm7mn02119931:20000
Becida fine sandy loam, morainic, 0 to 2 percent slopes, stony4884766436665gnczmn05719981:24000
Paddock-Becida, stony, complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes13211544365312sxm7mn05719981:24000
Paddock-Becida, stony, complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes1321176224356102sxm7mn11119961:20000
Paddock-Becida, stony, complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes703327134285672sxm7mn15319851:20000
Paddock-Becida, stony, complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes793143674288092sxm7mn15919871:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BECIDA soil series. To learn more about how this distribution was mapped, or to compare this soil series extent to others, use the Series Extent Explorer (SEE) application. Source: generalization of SSURGO geometry .