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

Part I Characteristics of Salt-Affected Soil and its Amelioration by Trees.- Concepts Concerned with Salt-Affected Soil.- Salt-affected soil resources in China.- Characteristics of salt-affected soil and its amelioration by trees.- Urban salinization and its ecological remediation principles.- Part II Principles and Practice of Afforestation in Saline Soil.- Mechanism of salinity tolerance and techniques of trees planting.- Agroforestry and its Application in Amelioration of Saline Soils.- Strategies to Reclaim And Ameliorate Saline Soil in the Yellow River Delta Region.- Part III Saline Soil Utilization for Biomass Production.- Potential and future prospects of biomass production in saline soils.- Development of forestry bioenergy in East China Sea areas.- Part IV Wetland Degradation and Water Shortage in Yellow River Delta Region.- Causes of Wetland Degradation and Ecological Restoration.- Water shortages and countermeasures for sustainable utilization.- Part V Case Study.- Planting Techniques of Tamarix Chinensis and Its Effect on Saline Soil Remediation.- Cultural Technologies and Salt-resistance of Nitraria sibirica in Coastal Areas with Serious Salt-affected soil.- Impacts of soil salinity on tree growth in Shandong.- Function of black locust plantation on soil improvement in Yellow River bank.- Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) forest as biomass energy resources.- Coupling of phytocoenosium change and wetland degradation in Yellow River Delta region.