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Assessing Soil-Vegetation Relationships in South Western Sinai, Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Soil fertility and plant nutrition

Abstract

The present work aims to study the vegetation analysis related to soil factors affecting species distribution and community types in South Western Sinai, Egypt. A total of 77 stands were studied, using 10 quadrats (10 m x10 m) per stand. Different physical and chemical soil factors (soil texture, electrical conductivity, total dissolved salts, pH, moisture content, chlorides, carbonates, sodium, potassium, organic carbon, calcium, and magnesium) were investigated to determine the significant factors that may affect the distribution of species throughout the study area. The majority of the soil classes in the study area were a mixture of coarse sand, fine sand, and gravel. The vegetation analysis was dominated by five plant communities; Zygophyllum coccineum, Haloxylon salicornicum, Zilla spinosaa, Zygophyllum album, and Anabasis articulata. TWINSPAN was used to classify the study area's stands and to reveal each group's indicator species. The classification resulted in five vegetation groups (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) each group with its distinct indicator species. Using DECORANA to clarify the relation between soil factors and vegetation, showed that the stands and their groups were related to both axis 1 and 2. Groups 1, 2, and 3 were related to axis 2, while groups 4 and 5 were related to axis 1. ANOVA was used to detect the most significant factors affecting species distribution. Organic carbon with P value = 0.036 was the most significant factor in determining different ecological groups followed by sodium with P value = 0.033 followed by magnesium with P value = 0.02 followed by Simpson diversity with P value = 0.007 followed by chloride, EC, T.D.S, species richness and Shannon diversity with P value = 0.001.

DOI

10.21608/ejss.2024.310926.1837

Keywords

Sinai, Vegetation, Soil analysis, South Western, plant communities

Authors

First Name

Heba

Last Name

El – Sayed

MiddleName

M. Said

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science (Girl’s Branch), Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

hebaelsaied2861.el@azhar.edu.eg

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First Name

A.

Last Name

Marie

MiddleName

H.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science (Boy’s Branch), Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

abdou.marei@azhar.edu.eg

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First Name

Safaa

Last Name

Ismaeil

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science (Girl’s Branch), Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

saffaismaeil@gmail.com

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Orcid

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First Name

shaimaa

Last Name

Salama

MiddleName

G.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt

Email

shaimaa_salama@sci.dmu.edu.eg

City

Damanhour, El-Beheira

Orcid

0000-0001-9621-4545

Volume

64

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

49165

Issue Date

2024-12-01

Receive Date

2024-08-08

Publish Date

2024-12-01

Page Start

1,677

Page End

1,695

Print ISSN

0302-6701

Online ISSN

2357-0369

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/article_384262.html

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384,262

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19

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Soil Science

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Assessing Soil-Vegetation Relationships in South Western Sinai, Egypt

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Created At

23 Dec 2024