Soil Clay Minerals and Ecosystem Services

摘要

Information system and its utility in ecosystem services is a step ahead of understanding and managing natural resources including soils/soil minerals. Ecosystem services provide a value on diversity in soils, plants, and animals and the way these natural resources perform various functions. It includes a range of services which are essential to our health and well-being of the society, in general, and environment, in particular. Therefore, georeferenced information system with soil/soil mineral shall help students and planners to protect the mother earth.