Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the COPELAND soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of COPELAND, 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 COPELAND 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
155S05_0471969-FL009-S05_047Copeland2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties28.6369743,-80.8223953
155S36_0231981-FL071-S36_023Copeland2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties26.7050648,-81.6064606

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the COPELAND 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 COPELAND 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 COPELAND 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 COPELAND 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 hills figure.

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

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with COPELAND 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 COPELAND 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 COPELAND 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 .

There are insufficient data to create the 2D hillslope position figure.

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

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

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with COPELAND, 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 COPELAND 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
Copeland-Bradenton-Wabasso complex, limestone substratum16773814733021lg2wfl00919901:24000
Copeland fine sandy loam, frequently ponded, 0 to 1 percent slopes45112731028402x9djfl01519821:20000
Copeland fine sandy loam, ponded-Urban land complex, 0 to 1 percent slopes10510530458372x9dkfl01519821:20000
Copeland fine sandy loam, frequently ponded, 0 to 1 percent slopes45598831028392x9djfl07119821:20000
Copeland fine sandy loam, ponded-Urban land complex, 0 to 1 percent slopes10570731028412x9dkfl07119821:20000
Copeland mucky fine sand, depressional4134191245622624fl61820071:15840
Cypress Lake-Riviera-Copeland fine sands, frequently ponded, association, 0 to 1 perent slopes2511547432362752zlf4fl62119891:24000
Riviera, limestone substratum-Copeland fine sand-Urban land association, 0 to 2 percent slopes132832630459022x9g3fl62119891:24000
Cypress Lake-Riviera-Copeland fine sands, frequently ponded-Urban land association, 0 to 1 percent slopes103552632362762zlf3fl62119891:24000
Riviera, limestone substratum-Copeland fine sand association, 0 to 2 percent slopes6497430459242x9g4fl62119891:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the COPELAND 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 .