IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v12y2020i8p3072-d344295.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Assessing Soil Acidification of Croplands in the Poyang Lake Basin of China from 2012 to 2018

Author

Listed:
  • Xiaoyang Liu

    (Technical Centre for Soil, Agricultural and Rural Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing 100012, China
    Institute of Soil and Solid Waste Environment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China)

  • Huading Shi

    (Technical Centre for Soil, Agricultural and Rural Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing 100012, China)

  • Zhongke Bai

    (School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
    Key Laboratory of Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100035, China)

  • Xiaocai Liu

    (The 7th Institute of Geology & Mineral Exploration of Shandong Province, Linyi, Shandong 276006, China)

  • Bing Yang

    (Technical Centre for Soil, Agricultural and Rural Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing 100012, China)

  • Dingxuan Yan

    (School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China)

Abstract

Soil acidification, caused by intensified fertilizer application and acid deposition, has threatened the sustainability of agricultural ecosystems and soil quality in parts of China since the 1980s. However, little is known about the spatio-temporal change of soil pH in cropland at a large basin scale. Poyang Lake Basin of China was selected as the study area to identify the spatio-temporal change of cropland pH and detect potential soil acidification factors. A total of 507 and 503 topsoil samples were collected in 2012 and 2018, respectively, and methods including one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson’s correlation analyses, and Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) were applied. Results showed that soil pH ranged from 3.96 to 7.95 in 2012 and from 3.34 to 8.19 in 2018, with most samples being acidic (pH < 7) in both sets of data. The two soil datasets showed a significant decline ( p < 0.05) of 0.1 pH units over the past six years and several soil samples that exhibited obvious uptrends in the groups of pH < 4.5 and 4.5–5.0 from 2012 to 2018. Overall, the distribution patterns of pH at the two sampling dates were similar, whereas local details of the pH spatial distribution patterns differed. While we found a significant correlation ( p < 0.05) between soil pH and aspect, elevation and slope showed no significant correlation with pH. ANOVA showed that pH values in the water density (river or lake network density) range of 6.27–19.94 were significantly higher ( p < 0.05) than the other water densities. Large amounts of precipitation with low pH values were found to significantly influence soil pH, whereas N-fertilizer inputs exerted limited effects on soil pH over the entire study area. These findings provided new insights on soil acidification assessment and potential factor detection at the basin scale.

Suggested Citation

  • Xiaoyang Liu & Huading Shi & Zhongke Bai & Xiaocai Liu & Bing Yang & Dingxuan Yan, 2020. "Assessing Soil Acidification of Croplands in the Poyang Lake Basin of China from 2012 to 2018," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-12, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:8:p:3072-:d:344295
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/8/3072/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/8/3072/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. E. W. Slessarev & Y. Lin & N. L. Bingham & J. E. Johnson & Y. Dai & J. P. Schimel & O. A. Chadwick, 2016. "Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale," Nature, Nature, vol. 540(7634), pages 567-569, December.
    2. Songbai Hong & Shilong Piao & Anping Chen & Yongwen Liu & Lingli Liu & Shushi Peng & Jordi Sardans & Yan Sun & Josep Peñuelas & Hui Zeng, 2018. "Afforestation neutralizes soil pH," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 9(1), pages 1-7, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Przemysław Tkaczyk & Agnieszka Mocek-Płóciniak & Monika Skowrońska & Wiesław Bednarek & Sebastian Kuśmierz & Elżbieta Zawierucha, 2020. "The Mineral Fertilizer-Dependent Chemical Parameters of Soil Acidification under Field Conditions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-11, September.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Yingying Xing & Xiaoli Niu & Ning Wang & Wenting Jiang & Yaguang Gao & Xiukang Wang, 2020. "The Correlation between Soil Nutrient and Potato Quality in Loess Plateau of China Based on PLSR," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-17, February.
    2. Songbai Hong & Jinzhi Ding & Fei Kan & Hao Xu & Shaoyuan Chen & Yitong Yao & Shilong Piao, 2023. "Asymmetry of carbon sequestrations by plant and soil after forestation regulated by soil nitrogen," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-10, December.
    3. Wei Wu & Hong-Bin Liu, 2019. "Estimation of soil pH with geochemical indices in forest soils," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(10), pages 1-14, October.
    4. Subham Roy & Nimai Singha & Arghadeep Bose & Debanjan Basak & Indrajit Roy Chowdhury, 2023. "Multi-influencing factor (MIF) and RS–GIS-based determination of agriculture site suitability for achieving sustainable development of Sub-Himalayan region, India," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(7), pages 7101-7133, July.
    5. Weiwei Guo & Tao Wu & Guojun Jiang & Lijie Pu & Jianzhen Zhang & Fei Xu & Hongmei Yu & Xuefeng Xie, 2021. "Spatial Distribution, Environmental Risk and Safe Utilization Zoning of Soil Heavy Metals in Farmland, Subtropical China," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-13, May.
    6. Jiří Holátko & Ondřej Holubík & Tereza Hammerschmiedt & Jan Vopravil & Antonín Kintl & Martin Brtnický, 2022. "Afforestation of agricultural land affects soil structural stability and related preconditions to resist drought," Journal of Forest Science, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 68(12), pages 496-508.
    7. Yunpeng Qiu & Yi Zhang & Kangcheng Zhang & Xinyu Xu & Yunfeng Zhao & Tongshuo Bai & Yexin Zhao & Hao Wang & Xiongjie Sheng & Sean Bloszies & Christopher J. Gillespie & Tangqing He & Yang Wang & Huaiha, 2024. "Intermediate soil acidification induces highest nitrous oxide emissions," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-12, December.
    8. Katarzyna A. Koryś & Agnieszka E. Latawiec & Maiara S. Mendes & Jerônimo B. B. Sansevero & Aline F. Rodrigues & Alvaro S. Iribarrem & Viviane Dib & Catarina C. Jakovac & Adriana Allek & Ingrid A. B. P, 2021. "Early Response of Soil Properties under Different Restoration Strategies in Tropical Hotspot," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(8), pages 1-14, July.
    9. Agnieszka Wolna-Maruwka & Aleksandra Grzyb & Remigiusz Łukowiak & Jakub Ceglarek & Alicja Niewiadomska & Dariusz Kayzer, 2023. "Spatial-Temporal Differentiation of Soil Biochemical Parameters and Their Relationship with Nitrogen Resources during the Vegetation Period of Selected Crops," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(10), pages 1-27, October.
    10. Yukun Zheng & Hongyan Liu & Huan Yang & Hongya Wang & Wenjie Zhao & Zeyu Zhang & Miao Huang & Weihang Liu, 2022. "Decoupled Asian monsoon intensity and precipitation during glacial-interglacial transitions on the Chinese Loess Plateau," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-13, December.
    11. Xiansheng Xie & Jianfei Qiu & Xinxin Feng & Yanlin Hou & Shuojin Wang & Shugang Jia & Shutian Liu & Xianda Hou & Sen Dou, 2022. "Spatial Distribution and Estimation Model of Soil pH in Coastal Eastern China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-16, December.
    12. Krzysztof M. Rostański, 2021. "Contaminated Areas as Recreational Places—Exploring the Validity of the Decisions Taken in the Development of Antonia Hill in Ruda Śląska, Poland," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-20, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:8:p:3072-:d:344295. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.