A quantitative knowledge of natural pedodiversity will ease the task of the person who attempts to rebuild quasi-natural soil systems.
Given the criteria used to distinguish among soil types, biomechanical as opposed to chemical and hydrological effects of trees are indicated.
[6][7] In 2003, Guo et al. used the State Soil Geographic database (STATSGO) to explored quantitative aspects of pedodiversity for the US.
[3] They found that the West USDA-NRCS geographical region has the highest soil taxa richness, followed by the Northern Plains.
The diversity of soils and landforms has hardly received any attention although their spatial and temporal variation may produce important quantitative and qualitative changes in the landscape.
It is only in the last few years that the term diversity has also caught the attention of scientists working on soils and other fields within the earth sciences which creates a forum and research projects on geodiversity.
Pedodiversity, as well as biodiversity, may be considered as a framework to analyze spatial patterns, being recognized as a novel pedometric tool.