naa a22 4500 510749860 CHVBK 20180411083100.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11270-013-1621-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11270-013-1621-2 Proposed Soil Indicators for Olive Mill Waste (OMW) Disposal Areas [Elektronische Daten] [Maria Doula, Victor Kavvadias, Kyriakos Elaiopoulos] The disposal of olive mill wastes (OMW) is considered as a major environmental problem worldwide, but especially for Mediterranean countries. Disposal in evaporation ponds or directly on soil is a common practice, which causes serious damages to soil and to the environment. The present study was performed in the framework of the LIFE project "Strategies to improve and protect soil quality from the disposal of Olive Mill Wastes in the Mediterranean region-PROSODOL” and one of its main objectives was the identification of appropriate soil parameters that could be used as soil indicators to assess soil quality at OMW disposal areas. For this, a well-designed soil sampling strategy was developed and implemented in Crete, South Greece at five OMW disposal areas. Many soil parameters were monitored bimonthly for a year. After statistical evaluation, eight soil parameters were selected as being appropriate soil indicators for OMW disposal areas, i.e., electrical conductivity, pH, organic matter, polyphenols, total N, exchangeable K, available P, and available Fe. Although many researchers have extensively studied the effect of OMW on soil quality, yet the identification of soil indicators to assess and monitor soil quality is an innovative issue and has never been studied before. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Olive mill wastes nationallicence Soil nationallicence Degradation nationallicence Indicators nationallicence Monitoring nationallicence Doula Maria Soil Science Institute of Athens, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER, 1 Sof. Venizelou str, 14123, Likovrisi, Greece aut Kavvadias Victor Soil Science Institute of Athens, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER, 1 Sof. Venizelou str, 14123, Likovrisi, Greece aut Elaiopoulos Kyriakos Soil Science Institute of Athens, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER, 1 Sof. Venizelou str, 14123, Likovrisi, Greece aut Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/7(2013-07-01), 1-11 0049-6979 224:7<1 2013 224 11270 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1621-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1621-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Doula Maria Soil Science Institute of Athens, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER, 1 Sof. Venizelou str, 14123, Likovrisi, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kavvadias Victor Soil Science Institute of Athens, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER, 1 Sof. Venizelou str, 14123, Likovrisi, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elaiopoulos Kyriakos Soil Science Institute of Athens, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER, 1 Sof. Venizelou str, 14123, Likovrisi, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/7(2013-07-01), 1-11 0049-6979 224:7<1 2013 224 11270 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer