Assessing Desertification with Soil Indicators in Agro-Pastoral Transition Zone of Northern Shaanxi
Desertification assessment is an instrumental component in developing global regional actions plans which aim at preventing and remedying desertification, a global and regional environmental problem. This research integrated selected soil parameters (physical properties, chemical properties) with plant canopy and used principal components analysis (PCA) and regression analysis to assess the severity of desertification risk. The northern part of Shaanxi province in China was taken as a case study and soils carrying different plant canopy were sampled in the 0-20 cm layer. Two soil indicators were selected from 17 basic soil physicochemical indexes. They were 0.25-0.05 mm soil sand content and soil organic matter content. An evaluation system was established by using these indicators, to assess the desertification extent by the content of 0.25-0.05 mm sand and soil organic matter at the 0-20 cm layer. The system developed may be used to assess the desertification process and distinguish the areas sensitive to desertification in the study region and in regions with similar characteristics.
Classification of desertification soil indexes 0.25-0.05 mm soil sand content soil organic matter content
JING ZHANG PEI HOlP
Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College, Bayi, Tibet, 860000, China Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China
国际会议
湘潭
英文
525-530
2011-07-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）