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Assessment of soil quality for guided fertilization in 7 barley agro-ecological areas of China

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  • Yu Zhou
  • Yingcheng Fan
  • Guang Lu
  • Anyong Zhang
  • Ting Zhao
  • Genlou Sun
  • Daokun Sun
  • Qi Yu
  • Xifeng Ren

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Soil quality is the basis for the development of sustainable agriculture and may be used for evaluating the sustainability of soil management practices. Soil quality status and integrated soil quality index (SQI) in sampled 97 farmlands distributed in 7 barley agro-ecological areas of China were analyzed by using 13 soil chemical parameters. The results showed six principal components totally explained 72% variability for the 13 parameters and identified 9 parameters (includes pH, NH4+-N, NO3--N, available P, available K, exchangeable Mg, DTPA-Fe, DTPA-Cu and Cl-) with high factor loading values as the minimum data set (MDS) for assessing soil quality. Average soil quality of all farmlands is moderate (SQI = 0.62). The SQI of barley farmlands in 7 agro-ecological areas showed the following order: Inner Mongolia Plateau (0.75 ± 0.02) > Yunnan-Kweichow Plateau (0.72 ± 0.06) > Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (0.63 ± 0.08) > Yangtze Plain (0.62 ± 0.10) > Huanghuai Region (0.58 ± 0.09) > Northeast China Plain (0.56 ± 0.07) > Xinjiang Province (0.54 ± 0.07). Total 29 out of 97 farmlands in 7 areas have low SQI level (

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  • Yu Zhou & Yingcheng Fan & Guang Lu & Anyong Zhang & Ting Zhao & Genlou Sun & Daokun Sun & Qi Yu & Xifeng Ren, 2022. "Assessment of soil quality for guided fertilization in 7 barley agro-ecological areas of China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(1), pages 1-16, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0261638
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261638
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