Human Land-Use and Soil Change

Wills, Skye; Williams, Candiss O.; Duniway, Michael C.; Veenstra, Jessica; Seybold, C. A.; Presley, DeAnn

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41870-4_18

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“…This resulted in the large‐scale degradation of natural vegetation along with serious environmental degradation problems such as soil wind erosion. Ultimately, these changes and their resulting downstream effects yielded serious environmental damage (Chen et al, ; Wills et al, ).…”

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Variation of the floodplain forest ecosystem service value in the lower reaches of Tarim River, China

et al. 2017

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Ecosystem service and human activity assessment are essential for effective natural resources allocation; however, these were seldom researched in arid region. This study used the theory proposed by Millennium Ecosystem Assessment to analyse ecosystem services provided by the floodplain forest in the lower reaches of the Tarim River. Results showed the following: (a) In the research area, the ecosystem service values of approximately US$216.78 × 108 occurring from 1972 to 2015 showed a decreasing trend; (b) the total ecosystem service values for floodplain forest and water area for all land use and land cover types accounted for 87.43% of the total value in the research area, and water supply, biodiversity protection, and waste treatment accounted for 55% of the total function values—these were the highest service values; (c) this research showed that the estimated ecosystem service values of research area were inelastic to value coefficients. This study showed that future work should allow land use and Ecological Water Conveyance Project to follow with rigorous environmental impact analyses. These analyses will be crucial to maintain the stability and sustainable development in the lower reaches of the Tarim River and also can provide references for research in the arid regions of Northwest China and Central Asia.

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Variation of the floodplain forest ecosystem service value in the lower reaches of Tarim River, China

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“…The aim of this study is to use ecologically managed land in its native state as a reference for comparative analysis, creating a standard to assess ecosystem changes and compute variances in dynamic soil properties. The proposed approach integrates ecological site concepts (Brischke et al, 2018; NRCS-USDA, 2022), the state-and-transition model (STM) (Bestelmeyer et al, 2017), soil's pedogenic attributes, climatic data (precipitation) (Das and Maharjan, 2022), and the space-for-time substitution principle (Wills et al, 2017). This comprehensive method targets the accurate identi cation of reference sites, which is vital for understanding soil changes due to land use and management.…”

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An Integrated Framework for Reference Site Selection and Benchmarking Soil Health Studies

Das,

Hird,

Maharjan

et al. 2023

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Comparative soil health studies are critical in soil conservation and gauging the success of different management practices in soil improvement. A primary challenge in these studies is the selection of a consistent natural reference site. Current choices vary widely, from minimally disturbed areas to pristine prairies. This methodological paper underscores the need for deliberate and thoughtful reference site selection for benchmark soil properties. Utilizing the State-and-transition models (STM), the study introduces a framework for this selection, drawing upon the ecological site (ES), and reference plant communities detailed in an ecological site description (ESD) within a respective Major Land Resource Area (MLRA). This study advocates for a localized classification within the framework of the Cropland Reference Ecological Unit (CREU), emphasizing the significance of local precipitation and soil data to ensure unbiased comparisons. Soil samples from eastern (MLRA106) and western (MLRA67A) Nebraska were collected, representing distinct pedogenetic and climatic differences. Analysis of SOM within an MLRA region displayed substantial variations, suggesting potential biases and complexities in soil health gap calculations when using reference sites and croplands not in the same MLRA, soil types (texture class), or precipitation zone. However, refining the comparisons by delineating MLRA, soil, and precipitation zones within the framework of CREU yielded more consistent and realistic comparative data. The integration of the MLRA and ES, complemented by granular soil and precipitation data provides a robust method for establishing soil health benchmark data.

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“…Biologically, LULC conversions from natural forests or grasslands typically involve removal of vegetation cover, which affects biodiversity (Creamer et al, 2016;Tsiafouli et al, 2015) and alters soil physical and chemical properties (Brevik et al, 2015). Overall, there is an increasing human influence on soil processes, soil development, and impact on soil properties over the last few millennia (Wills et al, 2017). Different soils do not respond to the same anthropogenic disturbance equally.…”

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Linking Global Land Use/Land Cover to Hydrologic Soil Groups From 850 to 2015

Wang

Feddema

2020

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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The characteristics of soils in part determine human‐induced land use and land cover (LULC) change, and together, soil properties and LULC directly impact global water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles. Plant health and the exchange of energy, water, and biogeochemical components at the surface interface are partly controlled by soil properties. Different soil types modify vegetation responses to existing climate forcings, and each soil type also responds differently to the same land‐use practice. Currently, Earth system models often use single soil columns with averaged properties. This leads to uncertainties in assessing LULC impacts. To improve the estimates of land surface change in Earth System Models, we link an existing LULC data set to four hydrologic soil groups from 850 to 2015, based on demonstrated soil preferences for eight LULCs under current conditions. We conclude that humans prefer hydrologic soil groups in order from B, D, C, to A. This ranking was applied to construct the history of LULC on each soil type at the 0.5° grid resolution. Results primarily distribute croplands to hydrologic soil group B in 850, while hydrologic soil group A has the most undisturbed area. Over time, good soils (hydrologic soil groups B and D) experience increased use for cropland areas, while poor soils (hydrologic soil groups C and A) are occupied predominantly by increasing areas in grazing land and secondary nonforests. The results provide better land surface characteristics to improve Earth systems modeling.

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Human Land-Use and Soil Change

Cited by 7 publications

References 192 publications

Variation of the floodplain forest ecosystem service value in the lower reaches of Tarim River, China

Variation of the floodplain forest ecosystem service value in the lower reaches of Tarim River, China

An Integrated Framework for Reference Site Selection and Benchmarking Soil Health Studies

Linking Global Land Use/Land Cover to Hydrologic Soil Groups From 850 to 2015

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