Influence of Soil Texture, Climate and Vegetation Cover on Secondary Soil Salinization in Pampas Plains, South America

Afforestation of degraded grasslands reduces sediment transport and may contribute to streamflow regulation in small catchments in the short-run

“…Among the environmental impacts of afforestation of Pampa, it has been shown that afforestation increases evapotranspiration and induces flow from the grassland areas into the forest plantation (Engel et al, 2015), promote secondary salinization in the flooding Pampas under old-unmanaged plantations (Milione et al, 2020), decrease live plant cover, but increase litter cover (Clavijo et al, 2005), and reduce the taxonomic biodiversity of birds in adult forests, but with no reduction in functional diversity (Jacoboski and Hartz, 2020). Moreover, afforestation promotes changes in the local productive, economic, and social dynamics (Matte and Waquil, 2020).…”