New journal: Soil Health

Soil Health, also known as "Soil quality", is the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals and humans, and connects agricultural, horticultural and soil science to policy, stakeholder needs and sustainable supply-chain management [1][2][3] .Soil health or quality cannot be measured directly because both are surrogate properties.However, they can be interpreted from a series of measured soil physical, chemical, biological, and microbial properties [1][2][3][4] .Soil health indicators are determined using minimum datasets [5] , linear (single or multiple) regression analysis [6,7] , pedotransfer functions [8] , principal component analysis [4,9] , and factor analysis [2] .