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Soil–Plant Relationships in Saline Wastelands: Vegetation, Soils, and Successional Changes, During Biological Amelioration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Khalid Mahmood ,
Kauser A. Malik ,
M.A.K. Lodhi  and
Khalid Hamid Sheikh
Khalid Mahmood
Affiliation:
Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), PO Box Nr 128, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Kauser A. Malik
Affiliation:
Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), PO Box Nr 128, Faisalabad, Pakistan
M.A.K. Lodhi
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Biology, Forest Park College, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Khalid Hamid Sheikh
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Botany, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
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An ecological survey of undisturbed saline wastelands and adjacent fields of Kallar Grass (Leptochloa fusca) was undertaken to study species distribution in relation to soil conditions and changes in species composition during amelioration processes. Five plant communities, represented by Atriplex crassifolia C.A. Mey., Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf, Suaeda fruticosa (L.) Forssk., and Eleusine flagellifera Nees, had colonized undisturbed areas. Soils of plant communities dominated by these species showed significant variations in salinity and sodicity. S. fruticosa was dominant on highly saline–sodic soil, Cynodon on slightly saline and moderately sodic soil, whereas D. bipinnata showed little variation in cover percentage with changes in salinity and sodicity of soil. These three species had wide ecological amplitude compared with E. flagellifera and A. crassifolia, which were restricted to non-saline and marginally saline–sodic soils, respectively.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1994 , pp. 236 - 241
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1994

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