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Process evaluation of soil treatment effect in Mu Us sandy land of Daji Khan in northern Shaanxi province based on fuzzy set

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As an important resource for human survival, soil plays an important role in maintaining productivity, environmental quality, animal and plant health, etc. Soil quality evaluation, as a decision-making tool to improve understanding of soil quality, can effectively indicate soil status. Mu Us sandy land of Daji Khan in northern Shaanxi Province is one of the serious desertification areas in China. The phenomenon of soil erosion and ecological deterioration is extremely serious. Therefore, it is urgent to strengthen to pay attention to the research of Mu Us sandy land, to help the restoration of damaged soil, and to build a powerful soil ecosystem. In this paper, the soil quality in the process of development and utilization of the Mu Us sandy land was evaluated based on fuzzy sets for the purpose of sustainable utilization of compound soil. Based on soil structure and soil fertility, 16 evaluation indexes of soil quality in Mu Us sandy land were screened, and then the evaluation index system of soil quality was constructed. The fuzzy multi-objective decision-making model based on fuzzy sets was used to comprehensively evaluate the soil quality from 2013 to 2019. We calculated that the year-on-year growth rates of soil quality from 2013 to 2019 are 13.56, 0.16, 12.81, 33.84, 9.68, and 14.80%, respectively. The results showed that the overall soil quality in the study area showed a trend of increasing year by year, and the year-on-year increase was the largest in 2017. Meanwhile, the reasons for the sudden increase in soil quality in typical years were analyzed. The results showed that the dominant factor of this phenomenon was the comprehensive influence of soil fertility. Furthermore, the relationship between soil fertility and cultivated horizon in typical years was analyzed one by one, and the specific factors affecting soil fertility were discussed.

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This work was supported by the Water Conservancy S&T Project of Shaanxi Province under Grant No. 2020slkj-16 and the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province under Grant No. 2019JLZ-16.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Eco-Hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, 710048, Shaanxi, China

    Xiaowan Chen, Jichao Liang, Dandan Liu, Jinbao Liu, Tao Jin & Jiancang Xie

  2. Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group Co., Ltd, Xi’an, 710075, Shaanxi, China

    Xiaowan Chen & Jinbao Liu

  3. University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an, 710121, Shaanxi, China

    Xinxin He

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XC and X He conceived and designed the experiments; XC and JL performed the experiments; DL, TJ and JL analyzed the data; X He contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools; and XC and JX wrote the paper.

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Chen, X., Liang, J., He, X. et al. Process evaluation of soil treatment effect in Mu Us sandy land of Daji Khan in northern Shaanxi province based on fuzzy set. Acta Geophys. 71, 1579–1594 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-022-00936-y

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