Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BIDMAN soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BIDMAN, 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 BIDMAN 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
58B81P043881WY009004Bidman8Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.2047234,-104.9702759
58B81P053381WY033001Bidman7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.8155556,-107.0669479
58B90P013890WY005002Bidman4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.246666,-105.6330566
58B90P097490WY005006Bidman8Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.8194427,-105.9191666

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BIDMAN 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 BIDMAN 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 BIDMAN 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 BIDMAN 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.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with BIDMAN 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 BIDMAN 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 BIDMAN 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 mountains figure.

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There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BIDMAN, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing BIDMAN 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
Bidman loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesBmB705527680372s042sd01919701:24000
Bidman-Redig complex, 2 to 9 percent slopesBrB6270353154cvh2sd01919701:24000
Bidman loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesBmA600927680362s041sd01919701:24000
Bidman-Bone loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes2523564349305cqgxwy01119781:24000
Bidman loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes231091927680732s042wy01119781:24000
Bidman-Bone loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes266324349306cqgywy01119781:24000
Bidman loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes22160327680722s041wy01119781:24000
Bidman loam, 6 to 10 percent slopes241070349304cqgwwy01119781:24000
Ulm-Bidman loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes214183349725cqxgwy02719931:24000
Bidman-Slickspots complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes10973349531cqq6wy02719931:24000
Kyle-Shingle-Bidman association3623787152081537vwy04319761:24000
Mughut-Bondman association47221861520925386wy04319761:24000
Bidman-Ulm complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes5263463494542wlqwwy04519841:24000
Parmleed-Bidman loams, 2 to 10 percent slopes703709349477cqngwy04519841:24000
Bidman loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes327393494322v095wy04519841:24000
Bidman-Bone loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes41317349443cqmcwy04519841:24000
Bidman-Slickspots complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes15413316148391r6clwy04519841:24000
Bidman-Parmleed loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes111360353497962v094wy60519951:24000
Bidman-Ulm loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes113266273497982wlqvwy60519951:24000
Bidman loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes10993743497942v095wy60519951:24000
Bidman-Parmleed loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes1128726349797cqzswy60519951:24000
Bidman loam, loamy substratum, 0 to 6 percent slopes1103961349795cqzqwy60519951:24000
Heldt-Bidman complex, saline, 0 to 3 percent slopes1553411349842cr17wy60519951:24000
Ulm-Bidman complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes257127816697482yv7twy60920061:24000
Briggsdale-Bidman complex, rollingBRD8901350815cs1mwy61919711:24000
Bidman-Ulm complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes114146443611052yrymwy63319871:24000
Parmleed-Bidman fine sandy loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes2019153361092d3r4wy63319871:24000
Parmleed-Bidman association, moist, 3 to 9 percent slopes2029092361091d3r3wy63319871:24000
Bidman, moist-Ulm loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes1155207361102d3rgwy63319871:24000
Parmleed-Bidman association, moist, 9 to 25 percent slopes2034450361090d3r2wy63319871:24000
Bidman-Arvada fine sandy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes1122744361103d3rhwy63319871:24000
Bidman-Arvada complex, moist, 0 to 3 percent slopes1131471361104d3rjwy63319871:24000
Ulm-Bidman complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes327111778175112ztzrwy70520031:24000
Bidman-Parmleed loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes25518288175102v094wy70520031:24000
Bidman-Ulm complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes25615248175122yrymwy70520031:24000
Heldt-Bidman complex, saline, 0 to 3 percent slopes155248817540wfq8wy70520031:24000
Parmleed-Bidman fine sandy loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes304223817571wfr8wy70520031:24000
Ulm-Bidman complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes142250503515202yv7twy70919831:24000
Ulm-Bidman loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes23539314278521jxsrwy70919831:24000
Bidman-Ulm loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes25630514279132wlqvwy70919831:24000
Bidman-Ulm complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes23929714278962wlqwwy70919831:24000
Parmleed-Bidman fine sandy loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes623753316040411qv48wy71920131:24000
Ulm-Bidman complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes60971208139792yv7twy71920131:24000
Bidman-Parmleed loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes60866788139292v094wy71920131:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BIDMAN 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 .