Soil moisture is one such example.
The spatial variability of soil moisture within a slope is much influenced by microtopography. We examine this issue using elevation data and soil moisture measurements collected at two slopes in the Wolf Creek Basin, Yukon. Soil moisture was measured using TDR over 900 and 180 m 2 grids, at intervals of 2 m, from east and west facing organic covered slopes respectively. The data was analyzed at different sampling resolutions and sampling plot size. Increasing the scale of interest without considering the nature of the variability at that scale will lead to an inappropriate sampling scheme and inconsistency in the representation of soil moisture.