PMID- 37806988 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231127 LR - 20231127 IS - 1573-2983 (Electronic) IS - 0269-4042 (Linking) VI - 45 IP - 12 DP - 2023 Dec TI - Exploring effective network design for monitoring soil pH and potentially toxic elements based on geochemical surveys in economically developed area. PG - 9709-9725 LID - 10.1007/s10653-023-01768-5 [doi] AB - Periodically visiting soil monitoring sites, i.e., sampling and analysis, is recognized as one of the most important ways to monitor soil quality. However, reconciling the monitoring costs with monitoring precision of the soil monitoring network (SMN) is a key technical problem to be solved. A statistically sound method, which depends on the spatial variation in monitoring indicators, was adopted to determine the number of monitoring sites and the monitoring interval as well as their ability to detect a particular change under an economically feasible scenario. The spatial variation in soil monitoring indicators was inquired from the "Multi-Purpose Regional Geochemical Survey in Zhejiang Province (MRGSZ)" project. Based on the data for soil pH and concentration of potentially toxic elements, the number of monitoring sites and the monitoring intervals that might be used for soil monitoring were determined with the administrative region as the monitoring unit. The results showed that there was great spatial variation in the MRGSZ region, which resulted in discrepancies in the minimum detectable changes (MDCs), monitoring site numbers, and temporal monitoring intervals for revisiting. Our research proposes a number of monitoring sites (n(r)) that could reconcile the monitoring costs, practicability and monitoring precision; thus, it was recommended for the design of SMNs. Under n(r), the MDC values of each monitoring indicator were acceptable for all administrative regions, and the temporal monitoring intervals were practical with variations of 6.7-14.8 years. CI - (c) 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. FAU - Xu, Mingxing AU - Xu M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3215-3496 AD - Zhejiang Institute of Geosciences, Hangzhou, 310007, China. xumingxing535005@163.com. AD - Technology Innovation Center of Ecological Evaluation and Remediation of Agricultural Land in Plain Area, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China, Hangzhou, 310007, China. xumingxing535005@163.com. FAU - Fu, Yesi AU - Fu Y AD - Zhejiang Institute of Geosciences, Hangzhou, 310007, China. AD - Technology Innovation Center of Ecological Evaluation and Remediation of Agricultural Land in Plain Area, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China, Hangzhou, 310007, China. FAU - Pan, Weifeng AU - Pan W AD - Zhejiang Institute of Geosciences, Hangzhou, 310007, China. AD - Technology Innovation Center of Ecological Evaluation and Remediation of Agricultural Land in Plain Area, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China, Hangzhou, 310007, China. FAU - Zhou, Guohua AU - Zhou G AD - Institute of Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration, Chinese Academy of Geosciences, Langfang, 065000, China. FAU - Sun, Wenming AU - Sun W AD - Department of Natural Resources of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, 310063, China. LA - eng GR - 12120115048501/Land and Resources Survey Project of China/ GR - 2020-33/Science and Technology Project of Department of Natural Resources of Zhejiang Province/ GR - 2023C02016/State Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Radiation Simulation and Effect/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20231009 PL - Netherlands TA - Environ Geochem Health JT - Environmental geochemistry and health JID - 8903118 RN - 0 (Metals, Heavy) RN - 0 (Soil) RN - 0 (Soil Pollutants) SB - IM MH - *Metals, Heavy/analysis MH - Soil MH - Environmental Monitoring/methods MH - *Soil Pollutants/analysis MH - Hydrogen-Ion Concentration OTO - NOTNLM OT - Monitoring temporal interval OT - Soil monitoring OT - Soil quality OT - Spatial variation EDAT- 2023/10/09 00:42 MHDA- 2023/11/27 12:42 CRDT- 2023/10/08 23:05 PHST- 2023/03/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/09/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/11/27 12:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/10/09 00:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/10/08 23:05 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s10653-023-01768-5 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s10653-023-01768-5 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Geochem Health. 2023 Dec;45(12):9709-9725. doi: 10.1007/s10653-023-01768-5. Epub 2023 Oct 9.