Since soil is the context of the formation and landscape evolution, any changes in it’s physical, chemical, and biological attributes may push ecosystem toward degraded conditions. Furthermore the concept of sustainable ecosystems management can directly be related to the sustainable soil management. Variations of biotic-abiotic soil attributes affect arid landscape resilience to environmental disturbances. In this regard assessment of changes of physical, chemical, and biological soil indicators can be a useful tool for understanding the landscape dynamic trends especially desertification process in arid ecosystems. The aim of this paper is an overview of application of biotic-abiotic soil indicators monitoring in the arid ecosystems management against hazards risk. The results of this paper suggested that biotic-abiotic soil indicators monitoring including variations in vegetation organizations and soil physiochemical properties can provide an new opportunity for decision makers for advancing sustainable landscapes management especially on the resource-limited ecosystems.

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