“…Studies of Zhang, Xue, and Chen () and Liu, Yu, Xu, and Chen () showed that soil salinization in the southern coast of Laizhou Bay is mainly affected by groundwater TDS and depth. Groundwater TDS and depth mainly affect the transfer, accumulation, and release of soil salinity (Salama, Otto, & Fitzpatrick, ; Walter, Lück, Bauriegel, Facklam, & Zeitz, ). Therefore, two main control factors of salinization, that is, groundwater TDS and depth, were selected in this study to explore their effects on regional soil salinization.…”