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What happens in arid climates when salts accumulate in cropland soils?

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What happens in arid climates when salts accumulate in cropland soils?

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The soil becomes eutrophied, or contains too high of concentrations of salts, so most plants will not be able to live there, cause they need lower solute concentrations to survive. (The plant cells shrivel up from trying to diffuse too much water out of them in osmosis, in the process of lysis.