›› 2012, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (6): 1009-1013.

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Effects of Shelter Forest on Soil Physicochemical Properties of Farmland in the Horqin Sand Land

WANG Yong-fang1, BAO Hui-juan1, 2, HAI Chun-xing1, Yin Shan1, 2   

  1. 1. College of Geographical Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhhot 010022, Inner Mongolia, China; 2. Inner Mongolian Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Geography Information System, Huhhot 010022,Inner Mongolia, China
  • Received:2011-12-02 Revised:2012-09-18 Online:2012-11-15 Published:2012-11-19

Abstract: In order to explore the effects of shelter forest on farmland in different landforms, in this study the lump farmland and meadow farmland in Naiman Banner in the Horqin Sand Land were selected to carry out a comparative analysis on soil physicochemical properties of the farmland with or without shelter forest. The results were as follows: (1) Soil physicochemical properties of farmland with shelter forest were better than those of farmland without shelter forest; (2) The effect of shelter forest on lump farmland was higher than that on meadow farmland, it was obvious at all the three sample plots of lump farmland, especially at sample plot 1 and sample plot 2, but the effect of shelter forest on meadow farmland was obvious at sample plot 1 only.

Key words: shelter forest, landform, lump farmland, meadow farmland, soil physicochemical property, Naiman Banner, Horqin Sand Land