The statistical Gamma test was utilized to identify the most influential soil parameters on BD.
The most influential soil property was the depth of the impeding layer.
In samples with Db ≥ 1.4 Mg/m3, citrate-bicarbonate-dithionate extractable aluminum, as cementing agent, turned to be the second most influential soil attribute (after clay) on LLWR while the latter was not affected by calcium carbonate equivalent.
This is because the factor which is most influential to soil erosion, BSC development, is also among the most manageable, implying that water erosion in drylands has a solution.
Sensitivity analysis results indicate that the most influential parameter for PV soiling rate was the relative humidity, followed by wind direction.
For minimum CO2 emissions (Table 6 and Figure 1c), the most influential factors were glucose and soil temperature, accounting together for 75% of the overall variance of the experimental data.
Soil temperature was the most influential factor at daily and seasonal scales while effects of soil moisture were weak overall.
Dimension 1 explained 37.5 % of the variance and the most influential variables in this dimension were treating the soil with the pool of CSB, soil microbial activity, soil respiration, activity of the enzymes LiP and laccase and CEC.
The most influential parameters affecting the simulation of soil nitrate content, mineralization, denitrification, nitrate leaching and plant nitrogen uptake were the transient coefficient of fast to intermediate humus pool, the carbon to nitrogen ratio of the fast humus pool, the organic matter decay rate in fast humus pool, and field capacity.
Through this analysis it was determined that the most influential parameter was water depth, followed by soil phosphorus concentration and initial distribution.
On the occasion of World Soil Day, 5 December 2018, Professor Rattan Lal, mentioned by Reuters as part of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2015 and 2016, was presented with the Glinka World Soil Prize, for his outstanding contribution to sustainable soil management and the protection of soil resources.
