“…He observed a low microbiota activity Table 5 Land salinization in Central Asia (Bucknall et al, 2003 in the saline soils of Uzbekistan and found low populations of ammonificators, oligonitrophils, and actinomycetes, that all play an important role in the soil ecosystem sustainability and resilience. In other settings, salinity limits crop varieties suitable for irrigated soils and affects crop development and yield (Katerji et al, 2003). It also affects river, stream, and wetland ecosystems (Hart et al, 1990), impacts of climate change on river ecosystems (Suen and Lai, 2013), river diversions and ecology (Das et al, 2012), river environmental flow requirements (Sun et al, 2009), tolerance of macro-invertebrate and the ecosystem protection trigger values (Dunlop et al, 2008), sustainability of agricultural landscapes, carbon sequestration and biodiversity values (George et al, 2012), vegetation-groundwater interactions (Humphries et al, 2011), pesticide toxicity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services (Schafer et al, 2012), bioavailability of Cu and Zn and other essential plant micronutrients (Speelmans et al, 2010), and causes changes in grain ultrastructure, amylase, protein and amino acid profiles under water, salinity, and combined stresses (Ahmed et al, 2013).…”