Assessment of soil diversity using soil maps with different scales in Eastern Fennoscandia, Russia

Soil-landscape studies using quantitative methods tackled as pedodiversity recently became popular in soil geography. The experience gained in their application to different territories and at different scales is not plentiful yet, and the regularities revealed are not always evident and unambiguous. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of mapping scale and the classification used for mapping on the pedodiversity indices and...