Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the PLOVER soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of PLOVER, 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 PLOVER 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
90A80P0058S1979WI073003Plover4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.8302758,-89.2700754

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the PLOVER 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 PLOVER 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 PLOVER 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 PLOVER 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 PLOVER 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 PLOVER 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 PLOVER 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with PLOVER, 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 PLOVER 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
Aftad-Plover complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes2-25A12628404412v44fmn03520091:24000
Plover fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesC87A144616735071t5f3mn06520061:12000
Aftad-Plover complex, 0 to 3 percent slopesC86A93216735061t5f2mn06520061:12000
Aftad-Plover complex, 0 to 3 percent slopesC86A10216764071t8fnmn09520061:12000
Plover fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesC87A7516764081t8fpmn09520061:12000
Plover fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes337A954448258h1fywi01320041:12000
Plover silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesPv1618421570g4p1wi01719851:15840
Plover very fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesPoA1250431915ghfrwi01919941:20000
Plover fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes337A1115903691qcx7wi03120051:12000
Plover sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesPo2293431409ggxfwi07319981:20000
Plover fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesPvA2413421112g468wi08519881:20000
Plover fine sandy loam, ice-walled lake plain, 0 to 3 percent slopesPvA1615421204g497wi09519781:15840
Plover fine sandy loam, outwash plain, 0 to 3 percent slopes338A24624277062mh73wi09519781:15840
Plover fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes337A385625170nzjswi10720061:12000
Plover fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes337A81625848p07nwi11320061:12000
Plover loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesPvA771422702g5vkwi11519811:15840
Plover fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes337A48435196glvlwi11920021:12000
Plover fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes337A872435496gm58wi12920021:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the PLOVER 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 .