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Recent Advances in Sustainable Soil Use, Land Management and Soil Conservation

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil Conservation and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 4308

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Olga Bezuglova

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1. Department of Soil Science and Land Resources Assessment, Southern Federal University, Stachki, 194/1, Rostov-on-Don 344103, Russia
2. Laboratory for Biological Agriculture and Plant Protection, Federal Rostov Agrarian Research Center, Institutskaya 1, Rostov Region 346735, Russia
Interests: rational land use; soil conservation agricultural technologies; soil degradation and measures to combat degradation processes; climate change and desertification; the Red Data Book of soils; soil protection from pollution; soils in cities
Dr. Svetlana Tishchenko

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Department of Ecology and Environmental Management, The Southern Federal University, Stachki av., 192/1, Rostov-on-Don 344090, Russia
Interests: soil organic matter; soil degradation; wetlands; soil enzyme activity
Prof. Dr. Fariz Mikailsoy

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Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Igdır Universty, Sehit Bulent Yurtseven Campus, 76002 Igdir, Turkey
Interests: mathematical modeling of ecological processes; soil physics; soil enzymes

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable soil is the key to environmental sustainability. It is determined by the properties of the soil as well as the types and degree of anthropogenic impact on the soil. The importance of the rational use of soils their protection from all types of degradation increases with the growth of the Earth's population and global warming. Some of these problems are often discussed in scientific articles. However, some of the acute problems such as soil stability in the modern era under changing climate, the role of soil cover in the cities, formation of the stability of the urban environment, elements of biological farming aimed to obtain safe products, preserve soils by decreasing chemical loads to increase the fertility and plant protection requires careful scientific attention and broader coverage of them in research publications.

This special issue aims to highlight the role of soil resilience in various types of degradation in a changing world and how to improve the quality of soil cover as sustainability.

  • Suggest themes will be a valuable addition to this special issue:
  • Rational Land Use, Soil Conservation Technologies;
  • Soil Degradation and Measures to Combat Degradation Processes;
  • Climate Change, and Desertification;
  • Red Data Book of Soils as a Basis for Soil Conservation, Rare and Endangered Soils, Soil Standards in Monitoring Research;
  • Assessment of the Sustainability of Soil and Land Resources, including Using GIS;
  • Soil Pollution of Agricultural Areas; Protection of Soils Polluted by Heavy Metals, Pesticides, Oil Products, Polycyclic Hydrocarbons, etc.;
  • Urban Soils; their Features, Role in Ensuring the Sustainability of the Urban Environment.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include all of the listed topics but are not limited to them.

We look forward to receiving your quality contributions.

Prof. Dr. Olga Bezuglova
Dr. Svetlana Tishchenko
Prof. Dr. Fariz Mikailsoy
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • sustainable soil use
  • soil degradation
  • desertification
  • soil erosion
  • the Red Data Book of soils
  • soil protection
  • urban soils

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Effects of Fungi on Soil Organic Carbon and Soil Enzyme Activity under Agricultural and Pasture Land of Eastern Türkiye
by Erhan Erdel, Uğur Şimşek and Tuba Genç Kesimci
Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 1765; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031765 - 17 Jan 2023
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Soil organic matter (SOM) is a heterogeneous mixture of materials ranging from fresh plant tissues to highly decomposed humus at different stages of decomposition. Soil organic carbon (SOC) status is directly related to the amount of organic matter in soil and therefore is [...] Read more.
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a heterogeneous mixture of materials ranging from fresh plant tissues to highly decomposed humus at different stages of decomposition. Soil organic carbon (SOC) status is directly related to the amount of organic matter in soil and therefore is generally used to measure it. Soil carbon sequestration refers to the removal of carbon (C) containing substances from the atmosphere and its storage in soil C pools. The soil microbial community (SMC) plays an important role in the C cycle, and its activity is considered to be the main driver of differences in C storage potential in soil. The composition of SMC is crucial for maintaining soil ecosystem services, as the structure and activity of SMC also regulate the turnover and distribution of nutrients, as well as the rate of soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition. Here, we applied fungi on the soils taken from two fields, one used as a pasture and one for agriculture (wheat cultivation), in a histosol in the eastern part of Türkiye and investigated the changes in the organic carbon and enzyme activity contents of the soils at the end of the 41-day incubation period. In the study, four different fungal species (Verticillium dahliae (SOR-8), Rhizoctonia solani (S-TR-6), Fusarium oxysporum (HMK2-6), and Trichoderma sp.) were used and catalase, urease, and alkaline phosphatase activities were examined. Results showed that the values of SOC were V. dahliae (7.46%), Trichoderma sp. (7.27%), R. solani (7.03%), Control (6.97%), and F. oxysporum (6.7%) in pastureland and were V. dahlia (4.72%), control (4.69%), F. oxysporum (4.65%), R. solani (4.37%), and Trichoderma sp. (4.14%) in agricultural land, respectively. SOC and soil enzyme activities were significantly affected by land use types (p < 0.05). The higher SOC and enzyme activities were observed in pastureland. Finally, it was determined that soil organic carbon and soil enzyme activities were affected by fungi. This study is important in terms of revealing that the effects of fungi on soil organic carbon and enzyme activities are different in various land types. Full article
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Spatial Analysis of Soil Properties and Site-Specific Management Zone Delineation for the South Hail Region, Saudi Arabia
by Ahmed M. Aggag and Abdulaziz Alharbi
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 16209; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142316209 - 5 Dec 2022
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Sustainable soil management with the appropriate understanding of soil characteristics is vital in maintaining and improving agriculture soil management. The objectives of the present study are to characterize the spatial variability of soil using the GIS technique and used agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) [...] Read more.
Sustainable soil management with the appropriate understanding of soil characteristics is vital in maintaining and improving agriculture soil management. The objectives of the present study are to characterize the spatial variability of soil using the GIS technique and used agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) for the delineation of management zones (MZs) for precision agriculture. A total of 111 soil samples were collected from 37 soil profiles in systematic depths (0–50, 50–100, and 100–150 cm) from the South Hail region, KSA. Samples were analyzed for pH, ECe, CaCO3, available macro and micronutrients, and hydrological properties. The best fit models, using ArcGIS software, were J-Bessel for pH, Clay, bulk density (BD), and available water (AW); K-Bessel for EC and available N; Stable for CaCO3, P, K, Fe, Zn, Sand, field capacity (FC) and saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks); Spherical for Mn and Cu; Gaussian for saturation percentage (SP); whereas exponential for permanent wilting point (PWP). The principal component analysis (PCA) resulted in six principal components (PCs) explaining 79.75% of the total variance of soil properties. The PC1 was strongly influenced by soil BD, FC, clay, PWP, Ks, and sand. PC2 was dominated by N, ECe, and CaCO3; PC3 was dominated by pH; PC4 was dominated primarily by K and P, PC5 was mainly dominated by Fe; Mn, and Cu, and PC6 was mainly dominated by SP and Zn. Based on AHC, four soil management zones (MZs) cover 77.94, 14.10, 7.11 and 0.85% of the studied area. Management zone 1 (MZ1) and Management zone 3 (MZ3) are classified as moderately saline while Management zone 2 (MZ2) is classified as highly saline soils, greater than the limiting critical value for the sensitive crops. The potential solutions to reduce salinization in the area include: reducing irrigation, moving to salt-tolerant crops or applying humic acids to fix anions and cations and eliminate them from the root zone of the plants. Treating the area with diluted sulfuric acid to remove salts and reduce ECe to less than 2 dSm−1, to get maximum productivity. This finding is diagnostic for determining the amount of fertilizer and irrigation water to be applied to soils in different management zones. Its emphasis’s the importance of site-specific management for long-term crop productivity and, as a result, reducing environmental hazards caused by uneven fertilizers and water applications. Full article
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