Coastal Saline Soil Rehabilitation and Utilization Based on Forestry Approaches in China

Part I. Characteristics of Salt-Affected Soil and Its Amelioration by Trees

1. Concepts Concerned with Salt-Affected Soils
Jianfeng Zhang

2. Salt-Affected Soil Resources in China
Jianfeng Zhang

3. Characteristics of Salt-Affected Soil and Its Amelioration by Trees
Jianfeng Zhang

4. Causes and Countermeasures of Urban Salinization
Jianfeng Zhang

Part II. Principles and Practice of Afforestation in Saline Soils

5. Salinity Tolerance and Tree Planting Techniques
Jianfeng Zhang

6. Agroforestry Systems for Combating Coastal Saline Soil
Jianfeng Zhang

7. Strategies for Reclaiming and Ameliorating Saline Soil in the Yellow River Delta Region
Jianfeng Zhang

Part III. Saline Soil Utilization for Biomass Production

8. Biomass Production in Saline Soil
Jianfeng Zhang

9. Potential and Availability of Forest Biomass Energy Production in the East China Sea Regions
Jianfeng Zhang

Part IV. Wetland Degradation and Water Shortage in the Yellow River Delta Region

10. Analysis of the Factors Driving Wetland Degradation
Jianfeng Zhang

11. Impacts of Water Shortage
Jianfeng Zhang

Part V. Case Study

12. Establishment of Tamarix chinensis Stands and Its Amelioration of Saline Soil
Jianfeng Zhang

13. Effects of Nitraria sibirica on the Improvement of Salt-Affected Soil
Jianfeng Zhang

14. Tree Species Selection for Soil Salinity Resistance
Jianfeng Zhang

15. Effect of Tree Planting on Preventing Riverbank Soil Erosion
Jianfeng Zhang

16. Function of Black Locust Plantation on Enhancing Soil Properties
Jianfeng Zhang

17. Planting Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) Forest as a Biomass Energy Resource
Jianfeng Zhang

18. Responses of Plant Community Change on Wetland Degradation in Yellow River Delta Region
Jianfeng Zhang

Nyckelord: Environment, Soil Science & Conservation, Forestry, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Coastal Sciences, Ecology