LibGuides: Soil Science: Statistics

Data & Statistics

The Data and Statistics subject guide is a great resource for all things data and statistics, including Canadian and International Data, Geospatial data and lots of exercises and tutorials.

Some data and statistics sources of particular interest for the study of soil science include:

CANSIS: National Soil Database
The NSDB is a collection of geospatial datasets which contain soil, landscape, and climatic data for all of Canada. It serves as the national archive for land resources information that was collected by federal and provincial field surveys, or created by land data analysis projects.
ISRIC World Soil Information Data Hub
Search and download data sets. In collaboration with its partners, ISRIC has been working for over 50 years on compiling and harmonising data on soils and their properties.

FAOSTAT This link opens in a new window
An on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Food Aid Shipments, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, and Agricultural Machinery.
Plants Database This link opens in a new window
A single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information.