Effects of soil data and map scale on assessment of total phosphorus storage in upland soils.

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.201606.006

Abstract

Abstract: Accurate assessment of total phosphorus storage in farmland soils is of great significance to sustainable agricultural and non-point source pollution control. However, previous studies haven’t considered the estimation errors from mapping scales and various databases with different sources of soil profile data. In this study, a total of 393×10⁴ hm² of upland in the 29 counties (or cities) of North Jiangsu was cited as a case for study. Analysis was performed of how the four sources of soil profile data, namely, “Soils of County”, “Soils of Prefecture”, “Soils of Province” and “Soils of China”, and the six scales, i.e. 1:50000, 1:250000, 1:500000, 1:1000000, 1:4000000 and1:10000000, used in the 24 soil databases established for the four soil journals, affected assessment of soil total phosphorus. Compared with the most detailed 1:50000 soil database established with 983 upland soil profiles, relative deviation of the estimates of soil total phosphorus density (STPD) and soil total phosphorus storage (STPS) from the other soil databases varied from 4.8% to 48.9% and from 1.6% to 48.4%, respectively. The estimated STPD and STPS based on the 1:50000 database of “Soils of County” and most of the estimates based on the databases of each scale in “Soils of County” and “Soils of Prefecture” were different, with the significance levels of P＜0.001 or P＜0.05. Extremely significant differences (P＜0.001) existed between the estimates based on the 1:50000 database of “Soils of County” and the estimates based on the databases of each scale in “Soils of Province” and “Soils of China”. This study demonstrated the significance of appropriate soil data sources and appropriate mapping scales in estimating STPS.

Key words: total phosphorus density, total phosphorus storage, mapping scale, North Jiangsu., source of soil data

LI Heng-rong, ZHANG Li-ming, LI Xiao-di, YU Dong-sheng, SHI Xue-zheng, XING Shi-he, CHEN Han-yue. Effects of soil data and map scale on assessment of total phosphorus storage in upland soils.[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2016, 27(6): 1737-1749.

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