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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (21): 103-108.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0672

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Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Soil pH in Typical Counties of Yantai City and Influencing Factors

LI Yujing1(), XIA Ziyi1, SHEN Tong2, WANG Fei2, ZHENG Lei3, ZHOU Jianli1, ZHANG Qiang3(), SUN Nan4(), XU Minggang2,4   

  1. 1 College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei 434025
    2 College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi 030800
    3 Kingenta Ecological Engineering Group Co. Ltd, Linshu, Shandong 276700
    4 Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/ Key Laboratory of Cultivated Land Quality Detection and Evaluation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing 100081
  • Received:2022-08-05 Revised:2022-10-14 Online:2023-07-25 Published:2023-07-24

Abstract:

This paper explored the characteristics of soil pH change and its influencing factors in arable land of typical counties in Yantai City and provided a scientific basis for arable land quality improvement. The soil samples of cultivated layer were collected in 2010 by grid sampling method from Qixia City and Penglai District as the research objects. Soil properties, including soil pH, exchangeable calcium and exchangeable magnesium were analyzed and compared with data of the second land survey in 1984. The pH spatiotemporal characteristics of different soil types were analyzed by geostatistics, changes in pH at different soil levels were compared. The results indicated that the soil pH in Yantai City showed a downward trend during 25 years (1984 to 2010). The declining degrees of pH were about 10% for cinnamon and fluvo-aquic soils and 6% for brown soil, respectively. The nugget effect of soil pH increased over time and the spatial autocorrelation of soil pH gradually decreased, and soil pH was greatly affected by random factors. Soil pH values in the northern and eastern edge of Yantai were high, and the acidification was not obvious. In contrast, soil pH values were low in southwest of Yantai where had severe acidification. The proportion of arable land with pH≤6.00 increased significantly from 5.8% in 1984 to 48.8% in 2010, while the proportion of arable land with pH>6.00 decreased significantly from 94.2% in 1984 to 51.2% in 2010. Both exchangeable calcium and exchangeable magnesium in Qixia City increased first and then decreased with the increase of pH, while both exchangeable calcium and exchangeable magnesium in Penglai City were positively correlated with pH. The cultivated land soil presented acidizing trend in Yantai. Climate and fertilization are the main factors affecting arable soil acidification in this region.

Key words: Yantai City, soil acidification, soil type, geostatistics, spatiotemporal characteristics