Saline Soils: A Potentially Significant Geoheritage of the Vojvodina Region, Northern Serbia

Halomorphic (or saline) soils, are characterized by high concentrations of soluble salts or sodium, or both. Saline soils have unfavorable agricultural properties but provide the natural habitats for a variety of highly specialized plants, animals, and other organisms. It is these special interactions that create the typical landscape of saline soils, known as slatina. The aim of this study is to assess and evaluate the geotouristic potential of six of the most attractive slatina sites in the Vojvodina region, Northern Serbia: Jegricka, Slano Kopovo, Rusanda, Okanj, Pecena slatina, and Pasnjaci Velike Droplje. Overall, all analyzed sites have significant tourism potential, based on both natural and tourist values. In addition to the tourism potentials, analyzed sites have high value as a natural endemic ecosystem inhabited with highly specialized plants and birds.

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This study assessed the geotouristic potential of six saline soil sites in the Vojvodina region of Northern Serbia, finding significant tourism value in the natural habitats for specialized plants and birds at these sites.