Effects of Contour Furrowing, Grazing Intensities and Soils on Infiltration Rates, Soil Moisture and Vegetation near Fort Peck, Montana

Branson, F. A.; Miller, R. F.; McQueen, I. S.

doi:10.2307/3894916

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“…Soil compaction, with its resultant reductions in the amount and size of surface pore space, adversely affects infiltration rates. The highest infiltration rates occurred on uncompacted plots and decreased as the trampling percentage increased, supporting earlier studies by Branson, et al (1962), andLiethead (1959). Infiltration rates decreased uniformly under increasing trampling percentages during all time intervals, regardless of grass cover.…”

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INFLUENCE OF VEGETATION, ROCK COVER, AND TRAMPLING ON INFILTRATION RATES AND SEDIMENT PRODUCTION¹

Dadkhah

Gifford

1980

J American Water Resour Assoc

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This study evaluated the impact of selected soil surface characteristics on infiltration rates and sediment production from interrill erosion from loam soil. Treatments were two different grass species (crested wheatgrass and intermediate wheatgrass), three levels of grass cover (30, 50, and 80 percent), four levels of rock cover (5, 10, 15, and 20 percent), and six levels of simulated trampling (10 to 60 percent of the respective plot area by 10 percent increments). Results indicated that plots with sod forming grass infiltrated only slightly more water than plots with bunchgrass, though the differences were significant. Trampling reduced infiltration rates significantly. On uncompacted soil, infiltration rates increased as percentage of rock cover increased. Trampling gradually destroyed this relationship however. Rock cover did not significantly affect sediment production. The tradeoff between vegetal cover and rock cover was affected by simulated trampling. Once trampling disturbance reached 20 percent, no relationship between vegetal cover and rock cover existed. Trampling was the most important factor influencing infiltration rates, explaining 35 to 48 percent of the variation in infiltration rates. The most important factor influencing sediment production was grass cover, which explained 40 to 62 percent of the variations associated with sediment yield at various trampling percentages. Results strongly suggest that, for slopes and soils as used here, adequate watershed protection may be obtained by maintaining 50 percent protective ground cover. Additional validation studies are recommended.

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INFLUENCE OF VEGETATION, ROCK COVER, AND TRAMPLING ON INFILTRATION RATES AND SEDIMENT PRODUCTION¹

Dadkhah

Gifford

1980

J American Water Resour Assoc

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“…The autholrs concur with Branson, et al (1962 and and Nichols (1964), that furrows will be of greater value in increasing forage since the water does not stand in to drown the furrows the plants.…”

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“…Some reseedings with desert wheatgrass (Agropyron desertorum) and crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum) on furrowed nuttall saltbush areas have given good yields of the seeded species but the native species have not always showed increases (Branson et al, 1962;Nichols, 1964).…”

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Seedling Survival on Erosion Control Treatments in a Salt Desert Area

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1971

Journal of Range Management

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Counts of seeded crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum) and volunteer species were made on gully plugs and contour furrows in the spring to determine emergence and in the summer to determine survival rates. Soil surface moisture was measured 2 and 7 days following summer rain storms. Many seedlings emerged in the spring in response to winter and early spring precipitation. This moisture was quickly depleted. The retention of moisture from summer storms determined the seedling survival pattern around the structures. Drowning was apparent in gully plug bottoms, while slopes of the structures retained little water during the storms. The combination of irregular rainfalls, high evaporation rates, and poor soil infiltration rates reduced the effectiveness of summer rains. Only at the high water line of the gully plug retention dam and at the bottom of the furrows was there enough soil moisture to benefit seedlings. cultural Experiment Station, Logan. Financial support of the Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Dept. of the Interior is gratefully acknowledged. Re

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“…Standing biomass was the most problematic parameter to standardize, as it is not widely reported. Biomass estimates were available directly for 13 of the 21 studies [ Branson et al , 1962; Johnston , 1962; Rhoades et al , 1964; Kelly and Walker , 1976; Blackburn et al , 1992; Hulugalle and Ndi , 1993; Nicolau et al , 1996; Spaeth et al , 1996; Hester et al , 1997; Mwendera and Saleem , 1997; Chirwa et al , 2003; Boone Kauffman et al , 2004; Bowen et al , 2005]. Aboveground biomass was computed allometrically for the Duke Forest sites as reported in section 2.1.9.…”

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Vegetation‐infiltration relationships across climatic and soil type gradients

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[1] The enhancement of infiltration capacity in the presence of vegetation is well documented in arid ecosystems where it can significantly impact the water balance and vegetation spatial organization. To begin progress toward developing a theory of vegetation-infiltration interactions across a wide spectrum of climate regimes, three key questions are addressed: (1) Does vegetation also enhance infiltration capacity in mesic to hydric climates, and if so, what processes contribute to this enhancement? (2) Is there a canonical relationship between vegetation biomass and infiltration rate? and (3) How does the vegetation-infiltration feedback evolve across climatic gradients? To address these three questions, new field data examining biomass-infiltration relationships in different vegetation types in a humid climate and on loamy soils are combined with a meta-analysis of biomass-infiltration relationships from nearly 50 vegetation communities spanning a climatic gradient from hyperarid deserts to the humid tropics and representing a full spectrum of soil types. Infiltration capacity increased as a power law function of aboveground biomass in water-limited ecosystems, but vegetation biomass was not significantly correlated to infiltration capacity in humid climates. Across a climatic gradient from xeric to hydric, the slope of the power law relationship between aboveground biomass and infiltration capacity decreased.

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Effects of Contour Furrowing, Grazing Intensities and Soils on Infiltration Rates, Soil Moisture and Vegetation near Fort Peck, Montana

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INFLUENCE OF VEGETATION, ROCK COVER, AND TRAMPLING ON INFILTRATION RATES AND SEDIMENT PRODUCTION¹

INFLUENCE OF VEGETATION, ROCK COVER, AND TRAMPLING ON INFILTRATION RATES AND SEDIMENT PRODUCTION¹

Seedling Survival on Erosion Control Treatments in a Salt Desert Area

Vegetation‐infiltration relationships across climatic and soil type gradients

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INFLUENCE OF VEGETATION, ROCK COVER, AND TRAMPLING ON INFILTRATION RATES AND SEDIMENT PRODUCTION¹

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