Soil erosion assessment on tillage and alternative soil managements in a Sicilian vineyard

Novara, Agata; Gristina, Luciano; Saladino, Saverio Salvatore; Santoro, Antonino; Cerdà, Artemi

doi:10.1016/j.still.2011.09.007

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“…In such experiments, the service crop mixture had the lowest amount of water runoff, runoff coefficient and soil particle amount lost by runoff, and the highest rainfall threshold for erosion triggering. Novara et al (2011) also found significant erosion reduction in the presence of service crops, and measured different cumulative soil loss amounts depending on the species. Moreover, the ability of service crops to reduce surface runoff strongly depends on the covering rate (Louw and Bennie, 1991;Novara et al, 2011).…”

Section: Managing An Environmental Service: the Example Of Runoff Mitmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Novara et al (2011) also found significant erosion reduction in the presence of service crops, and measured different cumulative soil loss amounts depending on the species. Moreover, the ability of service crops to reduce surface runoff strongly depends on the covering rate (Louw and Bennie, 1991;Novara et al, 2011). Louw and Bennie (1991) measured high runoff when seedlings were too small for a complete soil cover.…”

Section: Managing An Environmental Service: the Example Of Runoff Mitmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…In vineyards, studies present little variability, as service crops are generally sown in autumn when soil surface conditions are favourable (Celette et al, 2009(Celette et al, , 2008Novara et al, 2011;Pardini et al, 2002;Ruiz-Colmenero et al, 2011). When targeting nitrate uptake as a service, to avoid leaching, service crops sown in summer are more effective, provided that the weather favours the service crop emergence and establishment (Constantin et al, 2015).…”

Section: Service Crop Strategy Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Management of service crops for the provision of ecosystem services in vineyards: A review

Garcia

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Gary

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Service crops are crops grown with the aim of providing non-marketed ecosystem services, i.e. differing from food, fiber and fuel production. Vineyard soils face various agronomic issues such as poor organic carbon levels, erosion, fertility losses, and numerous studies have highlighted the ability of service crops to address these issues. In addition to their ability to increase soil organic matter and fertility, and reduce runoff and erosion processes, service crops provide a large variety of ecosystem services in vineyards such as weed control, pest and disease regulation, water supply, water purification, improvement of field trafficability and maintenance of soil biodiversity. However, associating service crops with grapevines may also generate disservices and impair grape production: competition for soil resources with the grapevine is often highlighted to reject such association. Consequently, vinegrowers have to find a balance between services and disservices, depending on local soil and climate conditions, on their objectives of grape production and on the nature and temporality of the ecosystem services they expect during the grapevine cycle. This study proposes a review of the services and disservices provided by service crops in vineyards, and a framework for their management. Vinegrowers' production objectives and pedoclimatic constraints form the preliminary stage to consider before defining a strategy of service crop management. This strategy assembles management options such as the choice of species, its spatial distribution within the vineyard, the timing of its installation, maintenance and destruction. These management options, defined for both annual and long-term time scales, form action levers which may impact cropping system functioning. Finally, we underline the importance of implementing an adaptive strategy at the seasonal time scale. Such tactical management allows adapting the cropping system to observed climate and state of the biophysical system during the grapevine cycle, in order to provide targeted services and achieve satisfactory production objectives.

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Section: Managing An Environmental Service: the Example Of Runoff Mitmentioning

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Section: Managing An Environmental Service: the Example Of Runoff Mitmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Service Crop Strategy Designmentioning

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Management of service crops for the provision of ecosystem services in vineyards: A review

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“…The measurements carried out here simulated high magnitude low frequency rainfall events and showed that apricot orchards can lose as much as 0.5 Mg ha −1 of soil in one hour, when measured at the plot scale, which make these land management practices unsustainable. Tillage has been seen as a major cause of soil erosion since agriculture was developed (Brevik and Hartemink, 2010), both in terms of water erosion (Novara et al, 2011;Casalí et al, 2015) as well as wind erosion (Gao et al, 2015). Tillage is also seen as a key factor for agricultural production as it modifies soil properties such as organic carbon (Hassan et al, 2014;Parras-Alcántara and Lozano-García, 2014;), the habitat for biota (Balota et al, 2014;Costantini et al, 2015) and chemical properties (Laudicina et al, 2015;Zornoza et al, 2015).…”

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“…Agriculture is the main cause of soil losses and runoff (Cerdà et al, 2009a(Cerdà et al, , 2009bNovara et al, 2011;Laudicina et al, 2015) and orchards under rainfed agriculture have some of the highest soil erosion losses due to the lack of land levelling, terraces, intense tillage, compaction due to heavy machinery and herbicide application (Bisantino et al, 2015;Prosdocimi et al, 2016). Tillage has been part of the Mediterranean agricultural practices for millennia.…”

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Effects of soil management techniques on soil water erosion in apricot orchards

Keesstra

Pereira

Novara

et al. 2016

Science of The Total Environment

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Soil erosion is extreme in Mediterranean orchards due to management impact, high rainfall intensities, steep slopes and erodible parent material. Vall d'Albaida is a traditional fruit production area which, due to the Mediterranean climate and marly soils, produces sweet fruits. However, these highly productive soils are left bare under the prevailing land management and marly soils are vulnerable to soil water erosion when left bare. In this paper we study the impact of different agricultural land management strategies on soil properties (bulk density, soil organic matter, soil moisture), soil water erosion and runoff, by means of simulated rainfall experiments and soil analyses. Three representative land managements (tillage/herbicide/covered with vegetation) were selected, where 20 paired plots (60 plots) were established to determine soil losses and runoff. The simulated rainfall was carried out at 55 mm h-1 in the summer of 2013 (<8% soil moisture) for one hour on 0.25 m2 circular plots. The results showed that vegetation cover, soil moisture and organic matter were significantly higher in covered plots than in tilled and herbicide treated plots. However, runoff coefficient, total runoff, sediment yield and soil erosion were significantly higher in herbicide treated plots compared to the others. Runoff sediment concentration was significantly higher in tilled plots. The lowest values were identified in covered plots. Overall, tillage, but especially herbicide treatment, decreased vegetation cover, soil moisture, soil organic matter, and increased bulk density, runoff coefficient, total runoff, sediment yield and soil erosion. Soil erosion was extremely high in herbicide plots with 0.91 Mg ha-1 h-1 of soil lost; in the tilled fields erosion rates were lower with 0.51 Mg ha-1 h-1. Covered soil showed an erosion rate of 0.02 Mg ha-1 h-1. These results showed that agricultural management influenced water and sediment dynamics and that tillage and herbicide treatment should be avoided

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A multi‐environment analysis of winter faba bean germplasm for cover crop traits

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Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) cultivars for cover cropping have remained unchanged in the western United States over the past century. Although breeding efforts have improved grain production across much of the world, improvement of the crop for cover crop applications (e.g., biomass production at the flowering stage) remains understudied. Therefore, a trial of nine newly developed faba bean lines from the USDA‐ARS and four commercial checks (‘Bell Bean’, ‘V4’, ‘V5’, and ‘Windsor’) was established to evaluate cover crop traits across six diverse testing environments. The experiment revealed significant genotype × environment interactions for winter vigor, nitrogen (N) concentration, and aboveground N yield. Significant genotypic variation was observed for important cover crop traits including winter vigor, spring vigor, aboveground biomass, and aboveground N yield, whereas variation for percentage of N derived from the atmosphere was primarily determined by the testing environment. The study also identified a strong association between early plant vigor and aboveground biomass (r = .71), which offers potential increases in breeding efficiencies. In addition, advanced faba bean lines from the USDA‐ARS were shown to produce twice the biomass of Bell Bean across testing environments, and faba bean line PS18301 produced at least 20% more aboveground N yield in five out of the six environments than the conventionally used cover crop cultivars Windsor and Bell Bean. Faba bean lines in this study may be used by cover crop breeders as parent materials.

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Soil erosion assessment on tillage and alternative soil managements in a Sicilian vineyard

Cited by 271 publications

References 39 publications

Management of service crops for the provision of ecosystem services in vineyards: A review

Management of service crops for the provision of ecosystem services in vineyards: A review

Effects of soil management techniques on soil water erosion in apricot orchards

A multi‐environment analysis of winter faba bean germplasm for cover crop traits

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