Saline Soil Reclamation Index as an efficient tool for assessing restoration progress of saline land

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ID21648212
AuthorsSheikh Adil Edrisi (0000-0002-0786-0201, Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development Banaras Hindu University Varanasi India), Vishal Tripathi (0000-0001-5450-2784, Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development Banaras Hindu University Varanasi India), Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi (0000-0001-7461-4580, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences BITS, Pilani Goa India), Dinesh Kumar Dubey (0009-0008-2832-8135, Sarthak Organizers Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad India), Girish Patel (Sarthak Organizers Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad India), Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash (0000-0002-6771-0176, Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development Banaras Hindu University Varanasi India, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume32
Issue1
Pages123-138
Publication date2021-01-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLand Degradation and Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1085-3278 • E-ISSN: 1099-145X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ldr.3641
OpenAlexW3022958174
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited48

Restoration of degraded land is imperative for addressing climate change, deriving additional benefits such as biomass and biofuel for supporting a biobased economy and also for meeting various targets of the Bonn Challenge and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN‐SDGs). In this context, the present research aimed to evaluate the performance of mixed biomass plantations on the saline land of western India over a period of 4 years. The impact of plantations on soil quality over the study period (2015–2018) was analysed by the Saline Soil Reclamation Index (SSRI), developed through principal component analysis. The study found a strong correlation between plant growth attributes and soil quality ( p −1 , 10 mg kg −1 and 23 mg kg −1 to 1 dS m −1 , 24 mg kg −1 and 39 mg kg −1 , respectively, towards the end of the study period (2018). Among the various test plants, six species ( Albizia lebbeck, Casuarina equisetifolia, Cordia dichotoma, Pithecellobium dulce, Pongamia pinnata, Terminalia arjuna ) were found with high SSRI (>0.50); while the rest displayed moderate SSRI (0.30–0.49), except for Azadirachta indica , which shown low SSRI (

Agronomy · Biology · Land reclamation · Soil Quality · Soil salinity · Soil water · Environmental Science · Forest ecology and management · Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics · Soil Management and Crop Yield · Ecology · Soil Science

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