Evaluating shrub-associated spatial patterns of soil properties in a shrub-steppe ecosystem using multiple-variable geostatistics

Individual soil variables are spatially dependent and the variables are systematically correlated in the landscape. The predominant shrub in the inter-mountain western US, big sagebrush, is related with multiple-variable indicator transform resource islands and adjacent to the big sagebrush. There are maximum chances for encountering zones of above-median resources.