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Effects of Land-Use Types on Topsoil Physicochemical Properties in a Tropical Coastal Ecologically Fragile Zone of South China

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  • Yuduan Ou

    (College of Coastal Agricultural Sciences, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China)

  • Gerónimo Quiñónez-Barraza

    (Campo Experimental Valle del Guadiana, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Durango 34170, Mexico)

  • Chubiao Wang

    (Research Institute of Fast-Growing Trees, Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), Zhanjiang 524022, China)

Abstract

Understanding the effects of land use on soil structure and nutrients is important for soil and water conservation in an ecologically fragile zone. This study was carried out to examine the variability of physicochemical properties in three different land use types: abandoned land (AL), eucalyptus plantation (EP), and road lawn (RL) sites at soil depths of 0–10 and 10–20 cm in the Leizhou Peninsula, a tropical coastal ecologically fragile zone of South China. Soil physicochemical property patterns exhibited extremely significant differences among the three land uses ( p < 0.001) at both soil depths. Soil nutrients, natural water content, and total porosity, from high to low, in the different land use types were RL, AL, and EP, while the bulk density, from high to low, was EP, AL, and RL. Soil total nitrogen, total phosphorus, total potassium, available potassium, exchangeable calcium, exchangeable magnesium, and natural water content exhibited significant differences ( p < 0.05) among the three land use types at soil depths of 0–10 and 10–20 cm, while no significant changes were detected regarding soil organic carbon, available phosphorus, and total porosity. The correlation between physical and chemical properties at the 10–20 cm depth ( R = 0.97, p < 0.001) was closer and more significant than that at the 0–10 cm depth ( R = 0.95, p < 0.01). Overuse of land (EP) without a rest in the ecologically fragile zone leads to soil erosion and compaction. Compared with natural restoration (abandoned land), artificial restoration (road lawn) can improve soil nutrient and water status more quickly, but cannot modify the soil organic carbon and porosity in the short term.

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  • Yuduan Ou & Gerónimo Quiñónez-Barraza & Chubiao Wang, 2023. "Effects of Land-Use Types on Topsoil Physicochemical Properties in a Tropical Coastal Ecologically Fragile Zone of South China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-14, March.
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