Soil Processes and Salt Dynamics in Dune Soils
msra(2008)
摘要
In Chapter 5 (this volume), we described the soil pattern and characteristics of the sand dune ecosystem of Nizzana. In the
following, we will reconstruct the formation of the main soils, their weathering and brownification, their aggregation and
crust formation, their humus accumulation and carbonate accumulation being some of the main soil processes. However, our special
interest will be on the salt dynamics of the soils.
The sand dune ecosystem of Nizzana is influenced by the atmospheric deposition of soluble salts and carbonates (see Chap.
19, this volume). While carbonates derive mainly from exposed limestones of the adjacent mountainous areas, dissolved ions
from sea spray are transported by north-westerly winds from the Mediterranean and precipitated through rainfall (Eriksson
1958). Yaalon (1964) estimated annual deposition of up to 100 kg km−2 of marine-borne salts, with a decreasing gradient from the coast inlands. For the Nizzana ecosystem, Littmann and Gintz (2000)
reported annual deposition rates of dissolved ions in the range of 800–1,000 kg km−2, calculated from deposition experiments in 1997 and 1998, while Yair et al. (1991) determined an annual salt deposition at
Sede Boqer in the range of 800 kg km−2.
During evaporation of the soil solution, different salt species are precipitated according to the concentration and composition
of ions and the solubility product of the salts. In Nizzana, the limited rainfall of the arid climate is insufficient to leach
soluble salts and carbonates from the soils, hence leading to their accumulation. Deposition of carbonates and soluble salts
by dust and rainfall, as well as the redistribution of soluble elements by surface runoff and migration of soil solutions
influence the spatial distribution of soil types and vegetation cover by affecting salinization and carbonatization.
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