Critical knowledge gaps and research priorities in global soil salinity

JW Hopmans, AS Qureshi, I Kisekka, R Munns… - Advances in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Approximately 1 billion ha of the global land surface is currently salt-affected, representing
about 7% of the earth's land surface. Whereas most of it results from natural geochemical …

Soil salinity and sodicity in drylands: A review of causes, effects, monitoring, and restoration measures

I Stavi, N Thevs, S Priori - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Soil salinization and sodification are common processes that particularly characterize
drylands. These processes can be attributed either to natural conditions or anthropogenic …

Soil salinity: Historical perspectives and a world overview of the problem

M Zaman, SA Shahid, L Heng, SA Shahid… - Guideline for salinity …, 2018 - Springer
Soil salinity is not a recent phenomenon, it has been reported since centuries where
humanity and salinity have lived one aside the other. A good example is from Mesopotamia …

Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks

L Rosa - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigated agriculture accounts for∼ 90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is
deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding …

The role of biochar and biochar-compost in improving soil quality and crop performance: A review

G Agegnehu, AK Srivastava, MI Bird - Applied soil ecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Multiple nutrient deficiencies related to severe soil fertility depletion have emerged as the
major constraint to the sustainability of agriculture on a global scale. Use of biochar and …

Agricultural land degradation: processes and problems undermining future food security

A Hossain, TJ Krupnik, J Timsina, MG Mahboob… - … , climate, plant and …, 2020 - Springer
Despite significant progress in increasing agricultural production, meeting the changing
dietary preferences and increasing food demands of future populations remain significant …

Curing the earth: A review of anthropogenic soil salinization and plant-based strategies for sustainable mitigation

A Litalien, B Zeeb - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
At low concentrations salts are relatively benign, but anthropogenic activities can drive
concentrations to levels that impact soil quality, microbial, plant, and animal life. Soil and …

The threat of soil salinity: A European scale review

IN Daliakopoulos, IK Tsanis, A Koutroulis… - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil salinisation is one of the major soil degradation threats occurring in Europe. The effects
of salinisation can be observed in numerous vital ecological and non-ecological soil …

[HTML][HTML] Soil salinity: A serious environmental issue and plant growth promoting bacteria as one of the tools for its alleviation

P Shrivastava, R Kumar - Saudi journal of biological sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Salinity is one of the most brutal environmental factors limiting the productivity of crop plants
because most of the crop plants are sensitive to salinity caused by high concentrations of …

High resolution mapping of soil properties using remote sensing variables in south-western Burkina Faso: a comparison of machine learning and multiple linear …

G Forkuor, OKL Hounkpatin, G Welp, M Thiel - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Accurate and detailed spatial soil information is essential for environmental modelling, risk
assessment and decision making. The use of Remote Sensing data as secondary sources of …