Effect of a Decade Old Tree Stands on Some Properties of Soils while Revegetating Sodic Wastelands

A field study was conducted to compare the influence of a Eucalyptus hybrid, Prosopisjuliflora and Terminalia arjuna plantations of about one decade old on the physico-chemical properties while revegetating sodic wasteland at Biomass Research Centre in Banthra (of National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow) India. The relative effectiveness of these species in enrichment/improvement of the sodic soil was in the order of P. juliflora > T. arjuna > E. hybrid. Results of experiments have also indicated that the pattern of tree ischolar_mains growth synchronised with the depth of improvement and helped in an accumulation and retranslocation of soil nutrients for developing soil vegetation system on such sites.