<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In our study, by investigating reambulated soil profiles from the Nagy-Sárrét region in Hungary, we attempt to determine the extent of changes which have occurred due to effects which impacted the landscape in terms of the soil chemistry properties of soil profiles exposed during the Kreybig soil survey more than 70 years ago. Based on the results, in the areas used as grassland, we observed a decrease in pH and an increase in the humus content of the topsoil. The increased CaCO<sub>3</sub> following the chemical improvement of the soil which was used as cropland is still characteristic of the area. During the past decades, the investigated soils have been affected by significant changes with regard to water management, which have also modified the investigated parameters. We have classified the reambulated soil profiles among the Solonetz, Vertisol, and Gleysol reference groups based on the World Reference Base of Soil Resources (WRB) diagnostic system.</p></abstract>

In our study, by investigating reambulated soil profiles from the Nagy-Sárrét region in Hungary, we attempt to determine the extent of changes which have occurred due to effects which impacted the landscape in terms of the soil chemistry properties of soil profiles exposed during the Kreybig soil survey more than 70 years ago. Based on the results, in the areas used as grassland, we observed a decrease in pH and an increase in the humus content of the topsoil. The increased CaCO3 following the chemical improvement of the soil which was used as cropland is still characteristic of the area. During the past decades, the investigated soils have been affected by significant changes with regard to water management, which have also modified the investigated parameters. We have classified the reambulated soil profiles among the Solonetz, Vertisol, and Gleysol reference groups based on the World Reference Base of Soil Resources (WRB) diagnostic system.

Effects of land-use changes on soil properties based on reambulated soil profiles

Department of Landscape Protection and Environmental Geography

Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics

Department of Computer Graphics and Image Processing

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Agriculture and Environment

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In our study, by investigating reambulated soil profiles from the Nagy-Sárrét region in Hungary, we attempt to determine the extent of changes which have...

Effects of land-use changes on soil properties based on reambulated soil profiles

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 70 - 81

Received: Sep 14, 2017

Accepted: Sep 30, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausae-2017-0007

Keywords
archive soil data, land use changes, Kreybig, Solonetz, Vertisol, Gleysol, WRB

© 2017 Dániel Balla et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Effects of land-use changes on soil properties based on reambulated soil profiles

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 70 - 81

Received: Sep 14, 2017

Accepted: Sep 30, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausae-2017-0007

Keywordsarchive soil data, land use changes, Kreybig, Solonetz, Vertisol, Gleysol, WRB

© 2017 Dániel Balla et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
archive soil data, land use changes, Kreybig, Solonetz, Vertisol, Gleysol, WRB