Fig 1.
Study area indicating soil sampling locations.
Fig 2.
Flow-diagram explaining the process of mapping the soil quality index and land uses over the study area.
Table 1.
Soil properties under different land uses.
Fig 3.
Heatmap of variables showing Pearson’s correlation coefficient.
Fig 4.
Soil quality index scores under different land use classes.
Table 2.
Selection of parameters (indicators) for soil quality index using eigenvectors obtained through principal component analysis.
Table 3.
Proportion and eigenvalues of the selected indicators for calculation of weighted additive soil quality index.
Fig 5.
Comparative maps of soil quality index and land uses of the study area.