Self-made microlysimeters to measure soil evaporation: a test on aerobic rice in northern Italy

Facchi, A.; Masseroni, Daniele; Miniotti, Eleonora Francesca

doi:10.1007/s10333-016-0566-7

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“…no tillage) has recently been implemented in European countries as a productive and sustainable alternative to the traditional rice flooding system. 4,5 Indeed, Sánchez-Llerena et al 2 found similar rice yields under aerobic and anaerobic management regimes using no-tillage, but with the advantage of an on average 75% water saving in the former. However, lower short-term rice grain yields have been found under non-flooding compared with flooding regimes.…”

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How the environmental fate of clomazone in rice fields is influenced by amendment with olive‐mill waste under different regimes of irrigation and tillage

Fernández

Gómez

Albarrán

et al. 2019

Pest Management Science

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BACKGROUND Irrigation and tillage systems alone or in combination with organic amendments can strongly influence soil properties, which in turn may also modify the environmental fate of any pesticides applied. This study was aimed at determining how amendment with composted olive‐mill waste (W) influenced leaching, sorption, and persistence of the herbicide clomazone in rice field soils under different tillage and irrigation management practices. The field trial conducted covered 3 years in succession, with six treatments: irrigation by sprinkler and conventional tillage without (ST) or with W application (80 Mg ha−1) (STW), irrigation by sprinkler but no tillage (SNT), irrigation by sprinkler but no tillage with W application (SNTW), and continuous flooding irrigation and tillage without (FT) and with W application (FTW). RESULTS Application of W significantly increased the adsorption of clomazone to soil in the first and third years. In the first year, the persistence of clomazone under aerobic (t1/2 = 33.1–36.3 days) and anaerobic incubation conditions (t1/2 = 3.43–10.8 days) decreased after W application to t1/2 values in the ranges 18.1–29.7 and 3.06–5.44 days, respectively. However, in the third year, although clomazone persistence increased significantly in SNT and ST when W was applied under both incubation conditions, it decreased significantly in FT management under anaerobic incubation conditions. The addition of W led to less leaching of clomazone, particularly for the FT case where the herbicide leaching losses were 2.8 and 2.6 times lower in the first and third years after W addition, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Using W as an organic amendment could be regarded as an invaluable strategy to reduce water contamination by clomazone in rice production, especially under traditional tillage and flooding management. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry

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“…For this reason, aerobic (non‐flooding) rice production with and without conservation agriculture practices (i.e. no tillage) has recently been implemented in European countries as a productive and sustainable alternative to the traditional rice flooding system . Indeed, Sánchez‐Llerena et al .…”

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How the environmental fate of clomazone in rice fields is influenced by amendment with olive‐mill waste under different regimes of irrigation and tillage

Fernández

Gómez

Albarrán

et al. 2019

Pest Management Science

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“…Soil water evaporation corresponds to a portion of evapotranspiration, which is important in the context of agricultural production, as its impact on the hydrological balance can be considerable, especially in situations of conventional cultivation or those with decreased levels of straw in the soil (Facchi et al, 2017). Thus, understanding and quantifying the process of soil water evaporation assists in providing data for many different agricultural crops, which aids in improving the efficiency of irrigation water use (Facchi et al, 2017;Mansour et al, 2022).…”

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“…Water evaporation at the soil surface is a physical process whereby water changes from a liquid to a gaseous state, resulting in the transfer of water contained in the soil to the atmosphere (Facchi et al, 2017;Heck et al, 2020), without utilizing the transpiration process in plants that produces the same result (Dalmago and Bergamaschi, 2017).…”

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Use of microlysimeters to determine soil water evaporation as a function of drainage

Daniel

Dallacort

Barbieri

et al. 2023

IJAm

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The aim of this study was to test two models and two sizes of microlysimeters to determine soil water evaporation as a function of the removal of water by drainage at the bottom of the units. The experiment was conducted at the experimental field of the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT) in Tangará da Serra, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Soil water evaporation was determined using microlysimeters constructed from rigid PVC tubes, of which two models and two sizes were tested. The four microlysimeter treatments were: 100 mm diameter without drainage (ML100WD), 100 mm diameter with drainage (ML100D), 150 mm diameter without drainage (ML150WD), and 150 mm diameter with drainage (ML150D). The microlysimeters were fitted to an irrigation blade of 60 mm and compared to applications with four irrigation blade sizes (15, 30, 45, and 60 mm). Water evaporation from the soil was obtained from the mass variation of the microlysimeters, and was then compared to the soil water evaporation determined using weighing lysimeters. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistical techniques, tests of means, and regression analysis. The soil water evaporation values present significant differences between the two microlysimeter sizes (100 and 150 mm diameter) and the two models (with and without water drainage). Soil water evaporation is affected by the water drainage that occurs at the bottom of the microlysimeters. There was no difference in soil water evaporation between irrigation rates within the same microlysimeter size and model. The two models and the two microlysimeter sizes tested can be used for the quantification of soil water evaporation, due to the high determination coefficients observed when compared to the evaporation observed with the weighing lysimeters.

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“…In this sense, the agricultural engineering eld was particularly fruitful and, over the years, very diversi ed low-cost self-made devices with different applications have been proposed. Just to recall some of them, Facchi et al (2017) presented a device for the measurement of soil evaporation in aerobic rice elds, Masseroni et al (2016) proposed an open-hardware tool for the continuous monitoring of soil water Due to the lack of an internal clock on the microcontroller board, a DS3231 Real-Time-Clock (RTC) module was added to the device for data logging. This module features an integrated temperaturecompensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) for higher accuracy.…”

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ArduHydro: A Low-Cost Device for Water Level Measurement and Monitoring

Galli

Peruzzi

Gangi

et al. 2022

Preprint

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ArduHydro is a low-cost device for water level measurement and monitoring designed for a short and long-term employment in controlled and outdoor environments. It measures water level through an ultrasonic sensor and elaborates the signals through an Arduino micro controller. The small size of this device, the low energy required for its operation, its robustness and accuracy make ArduHydro properly versatile for different applications in the field for water control and management. This article describes the design, the components, the costs, and the performance of ArduHydro. Performance was assessed with a laboratory test inside a hydraulic circuit constituted by an open channel flume and comparing ArduHydro measurements with those obtained with a traditional ultrasonic sensor. An example of ArduHydro application for detecting the wavefront evolution during a surface irrigation is presented as well. The results revealed that ArduHydro measurements were on average very consistent with those obtained by the traditional ultrasonic sensor in all different flow conditions (i.e. different flowrate and water depth) demonstrating its reliability and accuracy in the measuring water level. The application of ArduHydro during a surface watering of an agricultural field allowed to obtain important spatio-temporal information about the water depth along the longitudinal direction of the field, paying the way for a real comprehension of the dynamics of wavefront evolution in a real-world case study.

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Self-made microlysimeters to measure soil evaporation: a test on aerobic rice in northern Italy

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

How the environmental fate of clomazone in rice fields is influenced by amendment with olive‐mill waste under different regimes of irrigation and tillage

How the environmental fate of clomazone in rice fields is influenced by amendment with olive‐mill waste under different regimes of irrigation and tillage

Use of microlysimeters to determine soil water evaporation as a function of drainage

ArduHydro: A Low-Cost Device for Water Level Measurement and Monitoring

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