Haiyang Shi, Geping Luo, Edwin H Sutanudjaja, Olaf Hellwich, Xi Chen, Jianli Ding, Shixin Wu, Xiufeng He, Chunbo Chen, Friday U Ochege, Yuangang Wang, Qing Ling, Alishir Kurban, Philippe De Maeyer, Tim Van de Voorde
Reducing soil salinization of croplands with optimized irrigation and water management is essential to achieve land degradation neutralization (LDN). The effectiveness and sustainability of various irrigation and water management measures to reduce basin-scale salinization remain uncertain. Here we used remote sensing to estimate the soil salinity of arid croplands from 1984 to 2021. We then use Bayesian network analysis to compare the spatial-temporal response of salinity to water management, including various irrigation and drainage methods, in ten large arid river basins: Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, Tarim, Amu, Ili, Syr, Junggar, Colorado, and San Joaquin...
November 7, 2023: Science Bulletin