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Soil Quality Indices; Special Focus on Salt-affected Soil: Review and Case Study in Northern Egypt.

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Soil Security

Abstract

Soil plays an important role in human health and environmental quality. Therefore, there is an urgent need to enhance soil quality and its capacity to function within land use and ecosystem boundaries. Measuring the change in soil properties is important and critical for monitoring change in soil quality. Although the concept of soil quality is clear, there is a little consensus about its measurement because multiple functions of soil and interaction between its properties. Soil quality can be measured by using soil properties as indicators or measurable alternative about soil performance in relation to specific function(s). The integration between soil properties through establishing minimum data sets (MDS) is required to identify an appropriate method to assess soil quality. The MDS is specific to each soil type and functions. For example, MDS for soils in arid and semi-arid regions should include salinity as indictor, but not for those in the humid regions. The synthesis of soil quality indicators into appropriate index is essential to assess the soil status and choose an appropriate method for enhancing soil quality. Salt-affected soils in arid and semi-arid regions have been degraded and have low economic yields. Salt-affected soils occur in about 75 countries, and occupy at least 20% of the irrigated lands in the world. Therefore, it is necessary to establish MDS to assess and enhance the quality of these soils because the restoration of these soils not only leads to increase in productivity and improvement in environmental quality but also to soil carbon sequestration.

DOI

10.21608/jenvbs.2017.1085.1005

Keywords

Soil Quality, Salt-affected soils, minimum data sets, Egypt

Authors

First Name

Heba

Last Name

Elbasiouny

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Biological and Environmental Sciences Department, Faculty of Home Economic, Al-Azhar University, 31511, Egypt

Email

hebayehia79@hotmail.com

City

Kafr Elsheikh

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0000-0002-7245-6483

First Name

Fathy

Last Name

Elbehiry

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Affiliation

Central laboratory for environmental studies, Kafrelsheikh University,33516, Egypt.

Email

fathyelbehiry@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0002-0296-2647

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abowaly

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-

Affiliation

Department of Soil and Water Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh, University 33516, Egypt.

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mabowaly@yahoo.com

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1

Article Issue

2017

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585

Issue Date

2017-06-01

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2017-05-13

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2017-06-01

Page Start

85

Page End

100

Print ISSN

2536-9415

Online ISSN

2536-9423

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7

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Review

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410

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Journal

Publication Title

Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security

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https://jenvbs.journals.ekb.eg/

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Soil Quality Indices; Special Focus on Salt-affected Soil: Review and Case Study in Northern Egypt.

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22 Jan 2023