Abstract:Artificial plantations were set up by irrigating saline groundwater (salt content is 4~5g/L ) in central Taklimakan desert of extremely arid area. Four years later, it changed the ecology environment and landscape of desert, at the same time, soil properties of artificial vegetation have been changed greatly. Obviously, soil has begun formation processes during the foundation of artificial vegetation, we analysed all changes of soil properties. First, compared with drifting sand dune, the soil profile o...