Soil quality assessment under different forest types in the Mount Tai, central Eastern China

Shao, Guodong; Ai, Juanjuan; Qi-zhong, Sun; Hou, Lingyu; Dong, Yanjun

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106439

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“…Soil quality index based on management assessment framework was determined according to (Shao et al, 2020) as follows: the principal component analysis (PCA) was performed to select the minimum data set (MDS) of properties (Table S1), which could best represent soil quality and are sensitive to land management (Nakajima et al, 2015). Significant principal components (PCs) (eigenvalues ≥ 1, Table S2) were chosen to weigh properties, and a property was selected when its score value was above 10% of the highest indicator (Andrews and Carroll, 2001).…”

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“…Three standard scoring functions (i) “more is better” (ii) “less is better” and (iii) “optimum” were applied to standardize the MDS indicators. The weight of indicators in MDS based on the communality of the PCA (Table S2) was calculated as the quotient of the communality divided by the sum of the communality of indicators in the MDS (Shao et al, 2020). Finally, soil quality index was calculated as follows (Doran, 1994): W i is the weighing value, and S i is the transformed score of the selected indicators.…”

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Enhanced soil quality after forest conversion to vegetable cropland and tea plantation has contrasting effects on soil microbial structure and functions

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Land-use changes could potentially exert a strong influence on soil quality and soil microbial communities. Moreover, microbial taxa are also important drivers of soil ecological functions. However, the linkage between soil quality and soil microbial communities is in need of deeper understanding. In this study, we examined the effects of soil quality on microbial community structure and functions after forest conversion to vegetable cropland and tea plantations. Soil quality index was significantly increased after natural forest conversion to vegetable cropland and tea plantations. Soil bacterial beta diversity significantly correlated to soil quality, but the sensitivity of individual microbial groups varied in response to changes in soil quality. Higher soil quality promoted bacterial diversity in vegetable cropland but decreased it in tea plantations, which implied soil quality was a structural factor in bacterial community composition but had contrasting effects for croplands versus plantations. Agricultural management played a negative role in maintaining microbial interactions, as identified by the network analysis, and furthermore the analysis revealed key functions of the microbial communities. After land-use change, the abundance (e.g., level, intensity) of microbial N-cycling function increased in tea plantations but decreased in vegetable cropland. The abundance of C-cycling function featured an opposite trend. Higher level of N-fixation in tea plantations but the higher abundance of N-oxidation in vegetable cropland was demonstrated. Higher abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea as identified by qPCR in vegetable cropland corroborated the FAPROTAX function prediction. Therefore, the key taxa of soil microbial communities and microbial functions were largely dependent on changes in soil quality and determined responses to specific agricultural management.

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Enhanced soil quality after forest conversion to vegetable cropland and tea plantation has contrasting effects on soil microbial structure and functions

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“…If the grade determination of the agricultural land had been applied as the primary task of survey and evaluation of CLQ grade and the overall plan of the 3rd survey, it would have neither conformed to the requirements of the Central Document No. 4, that is, " (15) strengthening the investigation, evaluation, and monitoring of CLQ-establish and improve the evaluation system of CLQ and cultivated land productivity and ameliorate the evaluation indicator system and evaluation method" nor satisfied the practical demands for the cultivated land dynamic balance and improvement of CLQ of high-standard basic farmland [8]. Moreover, with the socioeconomic development, people's different demands for CLQ and discrepancy in the responsibilities among various land management departments results in differences in the emphasis of investigation and evaluation of CLQ [9].…”

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“…Characteristics and application scope of China's main cultivated land quality (CLQ) evaluation results. In recent years, the investigation and evaluation of CLQ has paid more and more attention to the protection of the comprehensive quality of cultivated land production, ecology and health [10][11][12], mainly related to soil quality assessment [13][14][15], soil health assessment [16][17][18][19], multifunctional analysis of cultivated land [20,21], accounting of cultivated land productivity [22][23][24], land production potential evaluation [25,26], soil safety evaluation [27][28][29][30], evaluation of cultivated land healthy productivity [31,32], land ecological research [33,34], and land remediation and utilization [35][36][37][38]. It shows that the evaluation of CLQ is constantly advancing with the times (Figure 1), and new content is constantly added [39].…”

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Discussion on the Unified Survey and Evaluation of Cultivated Land Quality at County Scale for China’s 3rd National Land Survey: A Case Study of Wen County, Henan Province

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Under the task requirements of China’s 3rd national land survey on the grade determination of cultivated land, research on a reasonable and unified survey and evaluation system of cultivated land quality (CLQ) is of great importance. From the three dimensions of agricultural climate, production potential, and health status components of cultivated land, six factors are selected in this study to construct a set of simple, practicable, and operable county-level CLQ survey and evaluation system. These factors are climate conditions of cultivated land, soil characteristics, tillage conditions, the attributes of cultivated land type, environmental conditions, and biological activity. The developed survey and evaluation system meets the demands of national engineering for the inclusion and coordination of multiple departments based on the current evaluation system and evaluation methodology of all relevant land administrative departments. Wen County, Henan Province is used for field verification and evaluation. Results demonstrate that the average quality index of cultivated land in Wen County is 2196.33, ranging from 660.70 to 2802.96 with the largest area of the first-class and second-class land accounting for 20.98% and 52.61% of the county’s cultivated land, respectively; the third-class and fourth-class land, 12.63% and 13.78%. The obvious regional differentiation characteristics are presented along the boundary of Qingfengling with the quality of northern cultivated land higher than that in the south. The comparison with the results of the national utilization gradation in 2018 infers that they are in accordance with the distribution of CLQ, which bears a significant positive correlation trend with the measured grain output of the field. The constructed evaluation system serves as a rewarding attempt of a unified survey and evaluation of CLQ at the county scale to reflect the production capacity of local crops, realize the sharing of data platforms, save manpower and capital investment, improve the practical connection of supervision and management of cultivated land protection in different departments, and meet the requirements of current cultivated land protection and management.

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“…The SQI approach has been used extensively to evaluate different soil types due to its flexibility and performance (Nabiollahi et al 2017;Raiesi 2017;Tian et al 2020;dos Santos et al 2021). Soil quality has been also studied concerning various landscape properties including land use, topographic and morphological features (Davari et al 2020;Shao et al 2020;Derakhshan-Babaei et al 2021).…”

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Effect of Landscape Fragmentation on Soil Quality and Ecosystem Services in Land Use and Landform Types

Mirghaed

Souri

2021

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This study was carried out according to the following objectives in the Shoor River Basin in southwestern Iran: (i) Evaluation of ecosystem services (ES) including habitat quality (HQ), carbon storage (CS), nutrient export (NE), and soil export (SE) using the InVEST approach as well as soil quality (SQ) using an integrated quality index; (ii) Assessment of the relationship between ES and SQ with landscape metrics using Pearson correlation test; and (iii) Investigation of the interaction between ES efficiency, SQ and landscape fragmentation using a ternary plot. The results showed that the northern and eastern parts of the region are prioritized for HQ, CS, and SQ but the southern and western parts for NE and SE. The highest ES efficiency and SQ were found for the forests as well as for the ridge/tops landforms. Statistical analysis clarified that there was a positive and significant relationship between HQ and CS (R>0.8) while the relationship of the two with NE was inverse and significant (-0.55<R<-0.50). The correlation between SE and NE was also positive and significant (R>0.50). SQ was also correlated positively and significantly with HQ and CS (0.43<R<0.5) while no relation with NE and SE was found. It was also perceived that increasing the landscape fragmentation decreases HQ, CS, and SQ but increases NE and SE. Besides, the interaction between ES, SQ, and landscape fragmentation across the sub-basins of the study area can change under the influence of the dominant land use and landform types.

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Soil quality assessment under different forest types in the Mount Tai, central Eastern China

Cited by 89 publications

References 51 publications

Enhanced soil quality after forest conversion to vegetable cropland and tea plantation has contrasting effects on soil microbial structure and functions

Enhanced soil quality after forest conversion to vegetable cropland and tea plantation has contrasting effects on soil microbial structure and functions

Discussion on the Unified Survey and Evaluation of Cultivated Land Quality at County Scale for China’s 3rd National Land Survey: A Case Study of Wen County, Henan Province

Effect of Landscape Fragmentation on Soil Quality and Ecosystem Services in Land Use and Landform Types

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