Quantifying salinity in calcareous soils through advanced spectroscopic models: A comparative study of random forests and regression techniques across diverse land use systems

• Mohammad Tahmoures ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: m.tahmoures@areeo.ac.ir (MT); afzalif@shirazu.ac.ir (SFA)

  Affiliation Department of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management, Zanjan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, AREEO, Zanjan, Iran

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• Afshin Honarbakhsh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Nature Engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran

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• Sayed Fakhreddin Afzali ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: m.tahmoures@areeo.ac.ir (MT); afzalif@shirazu.ac.ir (SFA)

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Engineering, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

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• Mehdi Nourzadeh Hadad,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Soil Science Department, Nuclear Agriculture Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

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• Yaser Ostovari

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Soil Science, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

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