پديد آورندگان :
رسولي صدقياني، مير حسن دانشگاه اروميه - گروه علوم خاك , قدرت، كمال دانشگاه اروميه - گروه علوم خاك , اشرفي سعيد لو، ساناز دانشگاه اروميه - گروه علوم خاك , جعفري، مراد دانشگاه اروميه - گروه اصلاح و بيوتكنولوژي گياهي , خداورديلو، حبيب دانشگاه اروميه - گروه علوم خاك
چكيده لاتين :
Background and Objectives: World population growth, human need of food, his interference
in natural ecosystems and changing soil intrinsic properties by degradation, increases the need
of evaluating land use changes impacts on soil quality. This study was carried out to evaluate
the effects of land use change on some of soil quality indicators in a deforested area of Northern
Zagros.
Materials and Methods: In this study, about 96 soil samples were taken from North Zagros
forests as well as adjacent areas with land use change. Some soil properties including basal
respiration (BR), substrate induced respiration (SIR), microbial biomass carbon (MBC), pH,
electrical conductivity, total nitrogen, available phosphorus, dissolved and exchangeable
potassium, cation exchange capacity (CEC), soil organic matter (SOM), sodium adsorbtion ratio
(SAR) and exchangeble sodium percent (ESP) were measured. Soil quality index (SQI) was
determined using principal component analysis (PCA).
Results: The results showed that changing forest to other land uses significantly reduced
microbial biomass carbon, basal respiration, substrate induced respiration, the amount of
dissolved calcium and potassium, exchangeable calcium, magnesium and sodium, organic
matter, CEC, SAR and potassium. Soil organic matter amount in pasture, garden and agriculture
decreased 16, 47 and 57.5 percent compared to forest, respectively. As a result of changing
forest to pasture, gardens and agriculture MBC amount decreased 28.34, 48.66 and 58.28,
respectively. The amount of total nitrogen, potassium and CEC in forest were 2.5, 1.39 and 1.4
times more than agricultural land, respectively. Also, in different land uses, depth effect on all
measured parameters was significant. As the results showed, the highest amount of potassium,
nitrogen, cation exchange capacity, basal respiration, microbial biomass carbon and substrate
induced respiration was seen in forest surface soils. Principal component analysis showed that
among 16 properties assessed, soil quality as total data set (TDS), organic matter, carbon
availability, microbial carbon proportion to organic carbon, available phosphorus, pH and SAR,
as the minimum data set or MDS had the greatest impact on the quality of studied soils.
According to the cumulative soil quality index (SQI), soil quality for forest (0.756) and pasture
(0.73) were II (low restriction) and for agriculture (0.646) and garden (0.626) were III (with
limitation for plant growth).
Conclusion: Therefore, any management and land use change that increases soil disturbance,
will reduce soil quality and increase land susceptibility to soil erosion. So, in order to maintain
soil quality, appropriate management practices should be done.