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Comparing Soil Chemical and Biological Properties in Varied Land Use
Young Kyu Hong1
,
Jin Wook Kim2
,
Hyuck Soo Kim3
,
Yong Ha Park4
,
Sung Chul Kim5†
1Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea
2Master's Degree, Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea
3Professor, Department of Biological Environment, Kangwon national University, Chuncheon 24341, Korea
4Research Fellow, Korea Environment Institute, Sejong 30147, Korea
5Professor, Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea
*sckim@cnu.ac.kr
28 February 2021. pp. 20-32
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Abstract

Soil chemical and biological properties can be varied depending on different land use. In particular, soil biological properties could be highly influenced by soil chemical properties. Therefore, main objective of this research was to compare soil chemical and biological properties in different land use and examine a correlation between soil chemical and biological properties. A total of 400 soil samples that evenly distributed from forest (FS), agriculture (AS), urban (US) and remediated (RS) area was collected. Soil chemical properties; pH, EC, soil organic matter (SOM), available phosphorus (AP), and cation exchange capacity (CEC) and biological properties: soil respiration (SR) and soil enzymes such as dehydrogenase (DHA), β-glucosidase (GLU), phosphatase (PHA), aryl-sulfatase (ARS), and urease (URE) were evaluated. Result showed that all soil chemical properties were within the optimum range of each land use. Among different soil chemical properties, SOM and AP were the most significantly different depending on varied land use. In case of soil biological the order of all enzyme activities from the highest to the lowest was FS > AS > US > RS and soil organic matter (p < 0.01) was a main factor affecting soil microbial activity. Overall, SOM management can be the most important to enhance soil microbial activity leading to improvement of soil health.

Soil health encompasses physical, biological, and chemical properties of soil.
Keywords
Land use
Soil enzymes
Soil properties
Soil respiration
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  • Publisher :Korean Society of Soil Science and Fertilizer
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국토양비료학회
  • Journal Title :Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국토양비료학회 학회지
  • Volume : 54
  • No :1
  • Pages :20-32
  • Received Date : 2021-01-06
  • Revised Date : 2021-01-19
  • Accepted Date : 2021-01-20
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7745/KJSSF.2021.54.1.020
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