Plant and soil communities are associated with the response of soil water repellency to environmental stress

Seaton, Fiona M.; Jones, Davey L.; Creer, Simon; George, Paul B. L.; Smart, Simon M.; Lebron, Inma; Barrett, Gaynor; Emmett, Bridget; Robinson, David A.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.052

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“…Figures 2 and 3, as well as Table 2, show that the dependence of soil water repellency on soil organic matter content is expressed in a WDPT decline along with an SOC decrease in cultivated vineyard soils. This is supported in Seaton et al [72], and many authors report the close association between organic matter content and soil water repellency [48][49][50][51][73][74][75].…”

Section: Impact Of Land-use On Soil Water Repellencysupporting

confidence: 54%

The Impacts of Vineyard Afforestation on Soil Properties, Water Repellency and Near-Saturated Infiltration in the Little Carpathians Mountains

Hrabovský

Dlapa

Cerdà

et al. 2020

Water

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Vineyards are a 7000-year-old land-use tradition and both management and abandonment have result in altered soil properties. These have a great effect on water resources and soil services, and this inspired our investigation into the effects of land-use and land-use change on soils in the Modra wine-growing region in South-western Slovakia. Ten topsoil samples were taken at each of the seven research sites (n = 70) on granite parent material in cultivated and afforested vineyards and original forest soils. Laboratory analyses included determination of soil texture, organic carbon content, soil pH, and water repellency. This was supplemented by infiltration measurements under near-saturated conditions at the vineyard and afforested study sites. Studied soils have a low clay content and a high proportion of sand. The vineyard soils have significantly higher pH than the forest and afforested soils because the naturally acidic soils have been limed. The forest and afforested soils have similar properties, with higher organic carbon content. This makes them strongly to extremely water repellent and contrasts sharply with the wettability of cultivated vineyard soils. One afforested site, however, was less acidic and therefore was considered transitional between forest and vineyard soils. Our infiltration measurements established the influence of soil water repellency on the infiltration process, and our results highlighted that the infiltration rate in the vineyard soils was significantly higher than in afforested soils. The infiltration rate also gradually increased over time in afforested soils due to decreasing water repellency. Physically impossible negative sorptivity values in afforested soils were noted because of changes in water repellency during the infiltration process. Finally, we conclude that soil afforestation results in increased soil water repellency and a subsequent reduction in the infiltration rate at the matrix scale.

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Section: Impact Of Land-use On Soil Water Repellencysupporting

confidence: 54%

The Impacts of Vineyard Afforestation on Soil Properties, Water Repellency and Near-Saturated Infiltration in the Little Carpathians Mountains

Hrabovský

Dlapa

Cerdà

et al. 2020

Water

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“…The surveys consisted of four (reduced to three from 2015-16 onwards) visits to each square by trained, professional BTO surveyors (Siriwardena et al, 2020). Surveys were equally spaced through mid-March to mid-July.…”

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“…All birds seen or heard were recorded on high-resolution field maps using standard BTO activity codes. Recording and standardizing route coverage (where surveyors actually walked) was important both between visits and to ensure comparable repeat coverage when squares are revisited (Siriwardena et al, 2020). The method is a distillation of the approach used for the BTO's Common Birds Census between 1962(O'Connor, 1990.…”

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Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey

Wood¹,

Alison²,

Botham³

et al. 2021

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Abstract. The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) ran from 2013 until 2016, and was probably the most comprehensive programme of ecological study ever undertaken at a national scale in Wales. The programme aimed to (1) set up an evaluation of the environmental effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme and (2) quantify environmental status and trends across the wider countryside of Wales. The focus was on outcomes for climate change mitigation, biodiversity, soil and water quality, woodland expansion and cultural landscapes. As such, GMEP included a large field survey component, collecting data on a range of elements including vegetation, land cover and use, soils, freshwaters, birds and insect pollinators from up to 300 1 km squares throughout Wales. The field survey capitalised upon the UKCEH Countryside Survey of Great Britain, which has provided an extensive set of repeated, standardised ecological measurements since 1978. The design of both GMEP and the UKCEH Countryside Survey involved stratified-random sampling of squares from a 1 km grid, ensuring proportional representation from land classes with distinct climate, geology and physical geography. Data were collected from different land cover types and landscape features by trained professional surveyors, following standardised and published protocols. Thus, GMEP was designed so that surveys could be repeated at regular intervals to monitor the Welsh environment, including the impacts of agri-environment interventions. One such repeat survey is scheduled for 2021 under the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring and Modelling Programme (ERAMMP). Data from GMEP have been used to address many applied policy questions, but there is major potential for further analyses. The precise locations of data collection are not publicly available, largely for reasons of landowner confidentiality. However, the wide variety of available datasets can be (1) analysed at coarse spatial resolutions and (2) linked to each other based on square-level and plot-level identifiers, allowing exploration of relationships, trade-offs and synergies. This paper describes the key sets of raw data arising from the field survey at co-located sites, 2013 to 2016. Data from each of these survey elements are available with the following Digital Object Identifiers. Landscape features, https://doi.org/10.5285/82c63533-529e-47b9-8e78-51b27028cc7f, https://doi.org/10.5285/9f8d9cc6-b552-4c8b-af09-e92743cdd3de, https://doi.org/10.5285/f481c6bf-5774-4df8-8776-c4d7bf059d40; Vegetation plots, https://doi.org/10.5285/71d3619c-4439-4c9e-84dc-3ca873d7f5cc; Topsoil physico-chemical properties, https://doi.org/10.5285/0fa51dc6-1537-4ad6-9d06-e476c137ed09; Topsoil meso-fauna, https://doi.org/10.5285/1c5cf317-2f03-4fef-b060-9eccbb4d9c21; Topsoil particle size distribution https://doi.org/10.5285/d6c3cc3c-a7b7-48b2-9e61-d07454639656; Headwater stream quality metrics, https://doi.org/10.5285/e305fa80-3d38-4576-beef-f6546fad5d45 ; Pond quality metrics, https://doi.org/10.5285/687b38d3-2278-41a0-9317-2c7595d6b882; Insect pollinator and flower data, https://doi.org/10.5285/3c8f4e46-bf6c-4ea1-9340-571fede26ee8; Bird counts, https://doi.org/10.5285/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360.

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“…It has been previously shown that there is a positive correlation between SWR and soluble carbohydrates linked to biological activity in soil (Behrends et al, 2019; Wander, 2004). Seaton et al (2019) also found that soil microbial community composition strongly influenced SWR that could be induced by microbes in a shorter time. Therefore, studies should focus on identifying an accessible and reliable indicator for hydrophobic substances that more closely reflects SWR in order to overcome the inconsistent effects of SOC on SWR.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…SWR is considered to be created by hydrophobic organic compounds covering the surfaces of soil particles (Doerr, Shakesby, & Walsh, 2000). These organic materials are produced by plant roots, leaves, and microorganisms (Fontaine, Mariotti, & Abbadie, 2003; Seaton et al, 2019), which are the main sources of SOC (Schmidt et al, 2011; Stockmann et al, 2013). Some researchers have used SOC, as hydrophobic substances, to build relationships with SWR (Blanco‐Canqui & Lal, 2009; Zheng, Morris, Lehmann, & Rillig, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Factors governing soil water repellency under tillage management: The role of pore structure and hydrophobic substances

Liang

et al. 2020

Land Degrad Dev

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Soil water repellency (SWR) has significant effects on soil degradation by changing some soil processes (e.g., carbon sequestration and soil erosion). Understanding the influence factors of SWR under conservation agriculture are playing a vital role in the sustainable development for improving soil quality. However, how soil pore structure influence on SWR remains unclear. We aim to assess the impact of hydrophobic substances and pore structure on SWR. Here we conducted two long‐term experimental fields with three treatments: conventional tillage (CT), reduced tillage (RT), and no‐tillage (NT). X‐ray tomography and the sorptivity method were used to measure soil pore structure and SWR, respectively. We found that soil organic carbon (SOC) and microbial biomass carbon (MBC) were higher in RT and NT treatments than in CT. MBC had significant influences on soil water sorptivity (Sw) and water repellency index (RI; p < 0.001), whereas SOC had no influence on Sw (p > 0.05). MBC also showed a closer relationship with SWR than SOC in redundancy analysis. The RT and NT increased the porosity of 55–165 μm that had a positive relationship with ethanol sorptivity and RI (p < 0.05). Ethanol sorptivity increased with an increase in soil pore porosity and connectivity under RT and NT treatments. However, increasing the pore surface area could decrease Sw due to enhance contact area between hydrophobic substances and soil water. Overall, the RT and NT treatments increased the water repellency index, which was a result of the interactions between pore structure and hydrophobic substances.

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Plant and soil communities are associated with the response of soil water repellency to environmental stress

Cited by 57 publications

References 72 publications

The Impacts of Vineyard Afforestation on Soil Properties, Water Repellency and Near-Saturated Infiltration in the Little Carpathians Mountains

The Impacts of Vineyard Afforestation on Soil Properties, Water Repellency and Near-Saturated Infiltration in the Little Carpathians Mountains

Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey

Factors governing soil water repellency under tillage management: The role of pore structure and hydrophobic substances

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