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ArticleHeliyon2025

Developing soil quality indices to investigate degradation impacts of different land use types in Northern Ethiopia.

Araya Kahsay, Mitiku Haile, Girmay Gebresamuel, Muktar Mohammed

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Article in Heliyon, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Araya KahsayDepartment of Natural Resources Management, Adigrat Univeristy, Adigrat, Ethiopia.
Mitiku HaileDepartment of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Girmay GebresamuelDepartment of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Muktar MohammedDepartment of Forest Resources Management, Oda-Bultum University, Chiro, Ethiopia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assessing soil quality is imperative to diagnose soil functioning and recognize inappropriate soil managements. However, the absence of defined indicators and their scoring methods and lack of universally accepted soil quality indexing frameworks complicate soil quality assessment, given soil systems complexity and diversity caused by variation in soil formation factors. This study was aimed to assess soil quality of three land use managements (CL, cropland; GR, grassland; SL, shrubland) in Northern Ethiopia, using two data sets (Total data set (TDS) and minimum data set (MDS)), linear and non-linear indicator transformation techniques and three indexing scenarios (Additive (SQI

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Indicator scoringLand useSoil quality gradeSoil quality index

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PMID39802008
PMCPMC11720938

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