Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BIOYA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BIOYA, 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 BIOYA were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BIOYA 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 BIOYA 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 BIOYA 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 BIOYA 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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Competing Series

Soil series competing with BIOYA 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 BIOYA 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 BIOYA 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.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BIOYA, 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. NV-2012-05-09-06 | Elko County, Central Part - November 1997

    General soil map units representative of those on a semibolson that is an externally drained intermontane basin. The units are as follows: 1—Devilsgait-Woofus-Moranch; 4—Orovadal-Bioya-Puett; 5—Hunnton-Wieland-Bilbo; 6—McIvey-Stampede-Betra; 7—Donna-Stampede-Bilbo; 17—Cleavage-Quarz-Loncan; 18—Cotant-McIvey-Lerrow; and 10—Sumine-Cleavage-Hapgood (Soil Survey of Elko County, Nevada, Central Part; November 1997).

  2. NV-2012-05-09-10 | Lander County, North Part - May 1992

    Typical relationship of general soil map units and landscapes: Sonoma-Rixie-Paranat (3); Orovada-Broyles-Shabliss (7); Buffaran-Allor-Chiara (11); Bioya-Chiara-Cortez (12); Robson-Akerue-Buffaran (16); Sumine-Chen-Rock outcrop (19); and Quarz-Walti-Glean (21) (Soil Survey of Lander County, Nevada, North Part; May 1992).

Map Units

Map units containing BIOYA 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
Bioya-Puett-Shabliss association203406125193892qj9pnv61219681:24000
Bioya-Chiara-Cortez association202355625193872qj9mnv61219681:24000
Bioya-Wieland-Kleckner association23614255477179j0jwnv76319861:24000
Bioya-Trunk-Alley association2355040477178j0jvnv76319861:24000
Shabliss-Hunnton-Bioya association13504850477060j0f1nv76319861:24000
Bioya-Bilbo-Chiara association2333190477176j0jsnv76319861:24000
Bioya-Shabliss-Puett association203187626338352rgm8nv76319861:24000
Chiara-Bioya association37112725114482q905nv76420211:24000
Bioya-Orovada association232115870478843j28knv76719861:24000
Orovada-Bioya-Haybourne association49028850478937j2clnv76719861:24000
Hunnton-Wieland-Bioya association48923268478936j2cknv76719861:24000
Chiara-Bioya association3713884478892j2b4nv76719861:24000
Bioya-Chiara-Cortez association20239255479513j2z5nv77519851:24000
Bioya-Shabliss-Puett association2033723479514j2z6nv77519851:24000
Chiara-Bioya association37160226339852rhh9nv78019901:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BIOYA 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 .