Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
121(18)
Published: April 26, 2024
Soil
organic
carbon
(SOC)
is
vital
for
terrestrial
ecosystems,
affecting
biogeochemical
processes,
and
soil
health.
It
known
that
salinity
impacts
SOC
content,
yet
the
specific
direction
magnitude
of
variability
in
relation
to
remain
poorly
understood.
Analyzing
43,459
mineral
samples
(SOC
<
150
g
kg
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
12(1)
Published: Nov. 18, 2021
Soil
salinization
has
become
one
of
the
major
environmental
and
socioeconomic
issues
globally
this
is
expected
to
be
exacerbated
further
with
projected
climatic
change.
Determining
how
climate
change
influences
dynamics
naturally-occurring
soil
scarcely
been
addressed
due
highly
complex
processes
influencing
salinization.
This
paper
sets
out
address
long-standing
challenge
by
developing
data-driven
models
capable
predicting
primary
(naturally-occurring)
salinity
its
variations
in
world's
drylands
up
year
2100
under
changing
climate.
Analysis
future
predictions
made
here
identifies
dryland
areas
South
America,
southern
western
Australia,
Mexico,
southwest
United
States,
Africa
as
hotspots.
Conversely,
we
project
a
decrease
northwest
Horn
Africa,
Eastern
Europe,
Turkmenistan,
west
Kazakhstan
response
over
same
period.
Excess
salt
accumulation
root
zone
causes
health,
biodiversity
food
security.
Authors
used
machine
learning
algorithms
predict
global
scale
21st
century.
Soil Science & Plant Nutrition,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
64(2), P. 156 - 167
Published: Feb. 21, 2018
ABSTRACT
Today,
soil
metal
pollution
has
become
a
significant
environmental
issue
of
great
public
concern.
This
is
because
both
major
sink
for
heavy
metal(loid)s
(HMs)
released
into
the
environment,
by
pedogenic
and
anthropogenic
activities;
also
source
food
chain
contamination
mainly
through
plant
uptake
animal
transfer.
In
addition,
HM
leads
to
negative
impacts
on
characteristics
function
disturbing
biological
physiochemical
properties
(e.g.
extreme
pH,
poor
structure
fertility
lack
microbial
activity).
eventually
decreased
crop
production.
Various
remediation
techniques
have
been
successfully
employed
reduce
risks
associated
with
HMs
efflux
soil.
Among
these,
use
low-cost
environmentally
safe
inorganic
organic
amendments
in-situ
immobilization
increasingly
popular.
Immobilization
agents
reduced
availability
ions
variety
adsorption,
complexation,
precipitation,
redox
reactions.
Soil
can
be
nutrients
thus
act
as
conditioner,
improving
soil’s
fertility,
resulting
in
enhanced
establishment
contaminated
soils.
article
critically
reviews
immobilizing
agricultural
mining
soils
paying
particular
attention
chemistry
effects
common
quality
parameters.
Agronomy,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
11(5), P. 993 - 993
Published: May 17, 2021
Biochar
is
gaining
significant
attention
due
to
its
potential
for
carbon
(C)
sequestration,
improvement
of
soil
health,
fertility
enhancement,
and
crop
productivity
quality.
In
this
review,
we
discuss
the
most
common
available
techniques
biochar
production,
main
physiochemical
properties
biochar,
effects
on
including
physical,
chemical,
biological
parameters
quality
fertility,
nutrient
leaching,
salt
stress,
addition,
impacts
addition
salt-affected
heavy
metal
contaminated
soils
were
also
reviewed.
An
ample
body
literature
supports
idea
that
amended
with
has
a
high
increase
concomitant
in
structure,
use
efficiency
(NUE),
aeration,
porosity,
water-holding
capacity
(WHC),
among
other
amendments.
However,
increases
biochar-amended
are
frequently
reported
coarse-textured
sandy
compared
fine-textured
fertile
soils.
effect
microbial
community
composition
abundance.
The
negative
polluted
have
plant
growth
yield
components
such
as
aggregation
stability
can
be
ameliorated
by
application
biochar.
Moreover,
positive
been
observed
when
was
applied
organic
inorganic
amendments
fertilizers.
decrease
nitrogen
(N)
leaching
volatilization
well
NUE.
some
biomass
activity
reported.
There
evidence
sorb
retain
pesticides
long
periods
time,
which
may
result
weed
infestation
control
cost.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
117(52), P. 33017 - 33027
Published: Dec. 16, 2020
Significance
Land
degradation
due
to
soil
salinization
has
detrimental
impacts
on
vegetation,
crops,
and
human
livelihoods,
leading
a
need
for
methodologically
consistent
analysis
of
the
variability
different
aspects
salt-affected
soils.
However,
previous
studies
salinity
issue
have
been
primarily
spatial
localized,
leaving
large-scale
spatiotemporal
variations
widely
ignored.
To
address
this
gap,
we
present
globally
validated
quantifying
long-term
(40
y)
topsoil
at
high
resolutions
using
machine-learning
techniques.
The
results
significant
implications
agroecological
modelling,
land
assessment,
crop
growth
simulation,
sustainable
water
management.