Soil erosion in sloping vineyards under conventional and organic land use managements (Saar-Mosel Valley, Germany)

Kirchhoff, Mario; Rodrigo‐Comino, Jesús; Seeger, Manuel; Ries, Johannes B.

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“…However, the vineyards, where herbicide treatments and no-tillage management are used, could have showed different results, such as the ones applying organic farming strategies where catch crops, chipped pruned branches or mulches control the soil erosion rates (Kirchhoff et al, 2017). Probably, the increase in organic matter would result in the swelling of the soil and as a consequence in changes in the soil topography, also varying the final results (Parras-Alcántara et al, 2016).…”

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Improving stock unearthing method to measure soil erosion rates in vineyards

Rodrigo‐Comino

Cerdà

2018

Ecological Indicators

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A B S T R A C TVineyard soils experience high erosion rates compared to soils from other agricultural land uses. The high soil losses in vineyards limits the sustainability of traditional production schemes and warrants comprehensive research aimed at thwarting the main erosion processes affecting vineyard systems. However, long-term measurements, which include spatial variability of soil erosion rates at the plot scale, are uncommon, as most of the measurements have taken place either at the hillslope or watershed scales. Against this background, the stock unearthing method (SUM) can be considered a useful methodology. However, the current method falls short because it assumes that the topography between the vine lines (inter-rows) remains planar. Therefore, we propose a new methodology (ISUM: improved stock unearthing method) that includes three measurements between in the inter-row areas. By taking inter-row measurements, we hypothesized that the spatial patterns of sediment detachment, transport and deposition features in the inter-rows would be detected. The ISUM costs 20% more time to conduct than the SUM, but greatly improved the utility of the field survey. ISUM allowed for: i) the creation of maps that identified linear soil erosion features and accumulation sites; ii) measures the amount of soil accumulated under the vines; iii) estimation of soil erosion rates with higher accuracy at long-term periods in a specific moment. This study compared the ISUM with the SUM in a vineyard in Spain. Soil erosion rates with ISUM were −2.5 Mg ha yr −1 while the SUM calculated rates of +4.9 Mg ha yr −1.Results showed that the traditional method underestimated soil rates a −25.7%. Maps created with the ISUM technique could also be used to provide insights about sediment connectivity.

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Improving stock unearthing method to measure soil erosion rates in vineyards

Rodrigo‐Comino

Cerdà

2018

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“…The evolution of surface soil conditions is influenced by many factors, such as rainfall characteristics, soil type, pluviometric gradient, and surface cover (Cerdà, 1998;Hänsel, Schindewolf, Eltner, Kaiser, & Schmidt, 2016;Kirchhoff, Rodrigo-Comino, Seeger, & Ries, 2017;Lassu, Seeger, Peters, & Keesstra, 2015;Römkens, Helming, & Prasad, 2001;Ruiz-Sinoga & Romero Diaz, 2010). Several researchers have investigated the seasonal or monthly variations in soil erodibility (Mutchler & Cater, 1983;Rejman et al, 1998;Salvador Sanchis et al, 2008).…”

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RUSLE erodibility of heavy‐textured soils as affected by soil type, erosional degradation, and rainfall intensity: A field simulation

Wei

Wang

et al. 2018

Land Degrad Dev

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Soil erosion is a serious problem world‐wide for the environment or humankind, exacerbating land degradation. However, little systematic knowledge is available about the erodibility of various types of soils at different erosional degradation levels, especially at the field scale. In this research, the spatiotemporal variations of the erodibility for 5 soil types (calcic luvisol, ferric luvisol, plinthic alisol, plinthic acrisol, and acric ferralsol) from temperate to tropical climate were investigated with field rainfall simulation experiments on prewetted bare fallow heavy‐textured soils (silty clay loam, silty clay, and clay) derived separately from loess deposits, quaternary red clays, and basalt. The experiments were performed in 3 erosion classes (noneroded, moderately eroded, and very severely eroded) and at 2 rainfall intensities (45 and 90 mm hr−1). Soil erodibility was represented by the K factor of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation. Soil erodibility was the lowest for the ferralsols among all the soil types and was significantly lower in the very severe than in the no or moderate erosion classes. Soil erodibility tended to be larger at the high than at the low rainfall intensity (p < .05) except for the very severely eroded luvisols, and their difference between rainfall intensities in the erodibility varied with rainfall duration. Soil erodibility could be well predicted by the combination of illite, dry aggregate stability, and amorphous aluminium oxides (adjusted R2 = .51, p < .001), and its temporal variations were significantly related with particle density, 1.4‐nm intergrade mineral, and capillary porosity (p < .05). Furthermore, soil properties selected to account for soil erodibility varied with rainfall intensity. The integrated data indicated that soil erodibility was mainly influenced by clay minerals at the region scale and soil degradation degree at the pedon scale.

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“…As a final remark, research on soil erosion may assist in achieving the goals of the United Nations of neutrality in land degradation. Agricultural land and global food security can be sustainable if the best and appropriate management practices that reduce soil erosion are adopted, such as organic farming, catch crops and straw mulches (Cerdà et al, ; Keesstra et al, ; Kirchhoff et al, ), nature‐based solutions such as maintaining land vegetation cover and avoiding land abounded could be the most efficient environmental and economical practices to mitigate soil erosion (Keesstra et al, ). Avoiding cultivation and revegetation of sloping highlands can be a good management practice to reduce the impact of agriculture on soil erosion.…”

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Assessment of soil erosion under rainfed sugarcane in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

Abdalla

Dickey

Hill

et al. 2019

Natural Resources Forum

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Soil erosion from agricultural land use runoff is a major threat to the sustainability of soil composition and water resource integrity. Sugarcane is an important cash and food security crop in South Africa, subjected to an intensive soil erosion, and consequently, severe land degradation. This study aimed to investigate soil erosion and associated soil and cover factors under rainfed sugarcane, in a small catchment, KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa. Three replicated runoff plots were installed at different slope positions (down, mid and upslope) within cultivated sugarcane fields to monitor soil erosion during the 2016–2017 rainy season. On average, annual runoff (RF) was significantly greater from 10 m2 plots with 1163.77 ± 2.63 l/m/year compared to 1 m2 plots. However, sediment concentration (SC) was significantly lower in 10 m2 (0.34 ± 0.04 g/l) compared to 1 m2 (6.94 ± 0.24 g/l) plots. The annual soil losses (SL) calculated from 12 rainfall events was 58.36 ± 0.77 and 8.84 ± 0.20 t/ha from 1 m2 and 10 m2 plots, respectively. The 1 m2 plot, SL (2.4 ± 1.41 ton/ha/year) in the upslope experienced 33% more loss than the midslope and 50% more loss than the downslope position. SL was relatively lower from the 10 m2 plots than the 1 m2 plots, which is explained by high sediment deposition at the greater plot scale. SL was negatively correlated with the soil organic carbon stocks (r = −0.82) and soil surface cover (r = −0.55). RF decreased with the increase of slope gradient (r = −0.88) and soil infiltration rate (r = −0.87). There were considerable soil losses from cultivated sugarcane fields with low organic matter. These findings suggest that to mitigate soil erosion, soil organic carbon stocks and vegetation cover needs to be increased through appropriate land management practices, particularly in cultivated areas with steep gradients.

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Soil erosion in sloping vineyards under conventional and organic land use managements (Saar-Mosel Valley, Germany)

Abstract: ABSTRACT. German vineyards are one of the land uses most prone to soil erosion. Due to their placement on mainly steep slopes and non-conservative

Cited by 53 publications

References 64 publications

Improving stock unearthing method to measure soil erosion rates in vineyards

Improving stock unearthing method to measure soil erosion rates in vineyards

RUSLE erodibility of heavy‐textured soils as affected by soil type, erosional degradation, and rainfall intensity: A field simulation

Assessment of soil erosion under rainfed sugarcane in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

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