Evaluation of soil quality index (SQI) in different land use of Malayer province using minimum data set (MDS) method
Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran.
2 Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran.
Abstract
Considering the role and importance of soil quality assessment in economic success and environmental sustainability, this study was conducted to evaluate the soil quality index (SQI) in different land use of Malayer province. For this purpose, 36 samples from 6 the land use were collected and 11 physical and chemical properties of soil were measured. The Soil quality index was determined based on criteria. Using the principal component analysis (PCA) method among 11 physical and chemical parameters of soil, two parameters of CaCO3 and K with a total variance justification of 63.08% as the most important parameters to evaluate the soil quality index were introduced using the Minimum Data Set (MDS) method. Finally, soil quality in different land uses was determined and compared. The results showed that the park and green spaces land use has the highest soil quality index in Malayer province, but irrigated farming and industrial land uses had the lowest soil quality, which requires management and increasing soil quality in these two land uses in order to prevent excessive soil degradation and erosion. Considering that maintaining and increasing soil quality is one of the criteria for the sustainability of different ecosystems, the need to monitor this parameter in different land use and prone to damage in Malayer province is suggested.
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