- Title
- Reclamation of salt-affected land: A review
- Creator
- Shaygan, Mandana; Baumgartl, Thomas
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/188896
- Identifier
- vital:17348
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems6030061
- Identifier
- ISSN:2571-8789
- Abstract
- Reclamation of salt-affected soil has been identified by the FAO as being critical to meet the needs to increase agricultural productivity. This paper reviews commonly used reclamation methods for salt-affected soils, and provides critical identifiers for an effective reclamation practice of salt-affected soil. There are widely used methods to reduce salinity and sodicity of salt-affected soils, including salt leaching, addition of amendments, revegetation using halophytes and salt scrapping. Not all reclamation techniques are suitable for salt-affected land. The reclamation strategy must be tailored to the site, and based on understanding the soil, plant and climate interactions. On some occasions, a combination of techniques may be required for reclamation. This can include salt scrapping to remove salts from the surface soil, the addition of physical amendments to improve soil pore systems and enhance salt leaching, followed by amelioration of soil by chemical amendments to preserve soil physical conditions, and then halophyte establishment to expand the desalinization zone. This study reveals that soil hydro-geochemical models are effective predictive tools to ascertain the best reclamation practice tailored to salt-affected land. However, models need to be calibrated and validated to the conditions of the land before being applied as a tool to combat soil salinity.
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Relation
- Soil systems Vol. 6, no. 3 (2022), p. 61
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- Agricultural production; Chemical soil amendments; Composting; Desalination; Drainage; Halophytes; Hydraulics; Land reclamation; Leaching; Manures; Modelling; Physical soil amendments; Precipitation; Rehabilitation; Revegetation; Salinity; Salinity effects; Salt; Salt leaching; Salt scrapping; Salts; Seeds; Soil amendment; Soil chemistry; Soil conditions; Soil improvement; Soil ripping; Soil salinity; Soil surfaces; Soils; 4106 Soil sciences
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