Soil Diversity as Affected by Land Use in China: Consequences for Soil Protection

Table 4

Percentage of soil order and great group affected by development in China.

Order	%			En^c	Great group	%			En^c
	Con^a	Cul^b	Total			Con^a	Cul^b	Total
Alfisols	1.49	18.21	19.70	6	Brown coniferous forest soils	0.04	0.21	0.25
					Brown earths	0.00	0.00	0.00
					Yellow-brown earths	0.37	16.82	17.20
					Yellow-cinnamon soils	8.84	67.10	75.94
					Brown earths	2.86	22.59	25.45	6
					Dark-brown earths	0.43	10.15	10.58
					Albic soils	2.74	51.74	54.48
Semi-Alfisols	4.94	39.62	44.57	24	Torrid red soils	1.70	28.97	30.67	2
					Cinnamon soils	6.43	42.49	48.92	22
					Gray-cinnamon soils	0.79	9.91	10.70
					Black soils	5.37	74.76	80.12
					Gray forest soils	0.18	4.66	4.84
Pedocal	1.67	22.79	24.45	23	Chernozems	2.34	33.42	35.75	3
					Castanozems	1.21	15.28	16.49	12
					Castano-cinnamon soils	2.85	43.56	46.42	8
					Dark loessial soils	3.25	48.85	52.11
Aridisols	0.58	6.69	7.27	1	Brown Pedocals	0.38	3.12	3.50
					Sierozems	1.73	26.68	28.41	1
Desert soils	0.30	2.00	2.30	1	Gray desert soils	1.22	10.46	11.69	1
					Gray-brown desert soils	0.18	0.66	0.84
					Brown desert soils	0.18	1.27	1.45
Amorphic soils	0.81	18.51	19.32	9	Cultivated loessial soils	1.44	41.22	42.66
					Red clay soils	3.59	44.42	48.01
					Alluvial soils	4.67	38.46	43.14	5
					Takyr	0.50	2.48	2.98
					Aeolian soils	0.31	3.75	4.06	1
					Limestone soils	0.71	24.28	25.00
					Volcanic soils	3.31	35.29	38.60
					Purplish soils	0.87	45.23	46.10
					Litho soils	0.30	2.96	3.26	1
					Skeletol soils	1.21	18.45	19.66	2
Semi-Aqueous soils	8.31	53.54	61.85	7	Meadow soils	3.14	34.86	38.01	7
					Lime concretion black soils	14.03	83.97	97.99
					Mountain meadow soils	0.15	4.25	4.40
					Shrubby meadow soils	0.34	7.54	7.89
					Fluvo-aquic soils	13.00	70.41	83.41
Aqueous soils	0.72	12.20	12.92	8	Bog soils	0.72	12.21	12.94	8
					Peat soils	0.60	11.93	12.54
Alkaline-saline soils	2.98	12.52	15.50	6	Saline soils	1.15	12.98	14.13	1
					Desert solonchaks	0.12	2.65	2.77
					Coastal solonchaks	25.42	32.51	57.93	5
					Sulphate soils	13.09	13.55	26.64
					Frigid plateau solonchaks	0.00	0.00	0.00
					Solonetzs	1.90	26.50	28.40
Anthrosols	7.86	59.70	67.56		Paddy soils	7.91	59.51	67.42
					Cumulated irrigated soils	7.82	63.91	71.74
					Irrigated desert soils	5.92	59.68	65.59
Alpine soils	0.02	0.27	0.28		Felty soils	0.01	0.06	0.07
					Dark felty soils	0.05	0.95	1.01
					Frigid calcic soils	0.00	0.01	0.01
					Cold calcic soils	0.04	0.79	0.84
					Cold brown calcic soils	1.01	14.65	15.66
					Frigid desert soils	0.00	0.00	0.00
					Cold desert soils	0.00	0.00	0.00
					Frigid frozen soils	0.00	0.01	0.02
Ferralsols	1.20	19.01	20.22	3	Humid-thermo ferralitic	3.51	29.58	33.10	1
					Latosolic red earths	2.48	19.61	22.09	1
					Red earths	1.00	17.78	18.78	1
					Yellow earths	0.26	19.89	20.14

^aLand for construction.
^bLand for cultivation.
^cNumber of endangered soils.