Soil Erosion Modelling on Arable Lands and Soil Types in Basilicata, Southern Italy

Dimotta, Antonella; Lazzari, Maurizio; Cozzi, Mario; Romano, Serena

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62404-4_5

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“…Therefore, soil carbon stocks are exposed and lost through decomposition, mineralization, and transport, while mineral particles silt up rivers, streams, and lakes [8]. While soil compaction, surface crusting, and soil erosion can be reduced by soil organic matter, which can also provide nutrients to plants, soil erosion can also be reduced by vegetative cover [9]. Uncovered and/or badly managed soils accelerate this process since the absence of vegetative cover (e.g., crops) promotes direct exposure to raindrops [10].…”

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Effects of Land Use and Cropping on Soil Erosion in Agricultural Frontier Areas in the Cerrado-Amazon Ecotone, Brazil, Using a Rainfall Simulator Experiment

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Agricultural soils provide ecosystem services, but the removal of natural vegetation reduces water infiltration capacity, increasing surface runoff. Thus, monitoring erosion is critical for sustainable agricultural management. Sediment losses and surface runoff were evaluated using a simulated rainfall of 75 mm/h in areas with crops and pastures in both the Caiabi River and Renato River sub-basins of the Teles Pires River watershed in Mato Grosso State, Brazil. In both the Caiabi and Renato sub-basins, data were collected from 156 observations in the upper, middle, and lower regions where (1) soybeans, (2) maize, and (3) pasture were grown alone, with another crop, or with soil that was scarified. Erosion occurred independent of soil texture and was closely related to the management and use of systems involving fewer crops and more soil scarification, regardless of sub-basin location. In uncovered, scarified soil, the soil losses from erosion were greater compared to covered soil, regardless of sub-basin and sub-basin region. In the Renato River sub-basin, soil losses in cultivated areas not planted with crops but with scarification were 66.01, 90.79, and 60.02 g/square meter in the upper, middle, and lower regions, respectively. Agricultural producers need to increase the planting of crops throughout the year and minimize soil disturbance, which will reduce soil erosion and improve sustainability.

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Effects of Land Use and Cropping on Soil Erosion in Agricultural Frontier Areas in the Cerrado-Amazon Ecotone, Brazil, Using a Rainfall Simulator Experiment

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“…Geographic Information System of Agriculture 3.0 has been the digital tool most used in agricultural-forestry sector in Basilicata as testified by several scientific paper produced following applications and experiment of Agriculture 3.0 and 4.0. In fact, the gis, individually or together with other digital tools (Remote sensing, Satellite imagery, Digital ortho-photos, 3D analysis), have been used for mapping, monitoring and control of land (Viccaro et al, 2017;Dimotta et al, 2017) and crops (Statuto et al, 2019;Dimotta et al, 2016), mapping of forest areas and variations in land use (Cillis et al, 2020), mapping rural structures (Romano et al, 2016) and enhancing the typical products of some areas (Claps et al, 2002). Another digital solution, the Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ert) has been used to characterize the coastal saltwater intrusion in the pine forest reserve of Metapontum (Matera) to highlight the spatial distribution of saline water in the soil (Satriani et al, 2012) and to evaluate the quantitative relationships between soil electrical resistivity and root biomass to determine if resistivity tomography could detect the spatial variability of tree roots in the field (Amato et al, 2009) while gpr has been used to locate losses of pollutants in groundwater (Satriani et al, 2018).…”

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Innovation in Basilicata agriculture: From tradition to digital

D’Oronzio¹,

Sica²

2021

Economia Agro-Alimentare

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The 4.0 technologies are changing agricultural production processes and with them the agro-food supply chains, fundamental for the competitiveness of the Made in Italy and Basilicata, a region of southern Italy. It has invested in modernization and restructuring of agricultural, agri-food and forestry farms by rural development policies, which address respect for sustainability and to reduction of renewable and non-renewable resources, preserving quality and the link with the territory.   Some Lucanian agricultural entrepreneurs, interested in experimenting with innovative and sustainable agriculture, has intensified relations with the local scientific world, the advisors, training institutions and with small and medium-sized agro-industrial enterprises, setting up clusters. Then European Partnerships for Innovation have formed inside them.   This paper analyses the eleven Operational Groups of the Lucanian European Partnerships which represent the incubators for the digitalization of agri-food 4.0. From the analysis it emerged that the maximum expression of digitization in Basilicata is Precision Farming, as evidenced by the establishment of a specific operating group, AgrotechBasilicata. However, the other Lucanian OGs can also be classified as digital because they are interested by information collection systems, software and data analysis, as well as robotics and automation.

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“…Soil is one of the most important and most complex natural resources, but current developments (climate change, soil erosion, and urbanization) increasingly threaten this valuable resource. Soil degradation caused by erosion and rapid population increase is ranked among the most important environmental problems in the world [1][2][3]. Erosion is a key driver of land degradation, heavily affecting sustainable land management in various environments worldwide [4][5][6][7][8].…”

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The Impact of Land Use Changes on Soil Erosion in the River Basin of Miocki Potok, Montenegro

Spalević

Barovic

Vujačić

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Land use change in all river basins leads to changes in hydrologic response, soil erosion, and sediment dynamics characteristics. Those changes are often viewed as the main cause of accelerated erosion rates. We studied the impact of land use changes on soil erosion processes in one of the watersheds in Montenegro: the Miocki Potok, using this watershed as a pilot river basin for this area. We simulated responses of soil erosion processes by using a process-oriented soil erosion Intensity of Erosion and Outflow (IntErO) model, with different settings of land use for the years 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. The model provides fast, effective, and affordable insight into the effects of land use change on soil erosion processes. Testing of the applied procedures was important for the further establishment of watershed management methodologies at the national level, for the other 300 river basins of Montenegro. For the current state of land use, calculated peak discharge for the Miocki Potok was 364 m3 s−1 (2020)–372 m3 s−1 (1970) for the incidence of 100 years, and there is a possibility for large flood waves to appear in the studied basin. Real soil losses, Gyear, were calculated at 13680 m3 year−1 (2020) and specific 333 m3 km−2 year−1 (2020). A Z coefficient value of 0.439 (2020) indicated that the river basin belongs to destruction category III. The strength of the erosion process was medium, and according to the erosion type, it was mixed erosion. According to our analysis, the land use changes in the last 50 years influenced a decrease in the soil erosion intensity for 14% in the Miocki Potok River Basin. Further studies should be focused on the detailed analysis of the land use changes trends with the other river basins at the national level, closely following responses of soil erosion to the changed land use structure, and effects of plant-and-soil interaction on soil erosion and sediment dynamics.

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Soil Erosion Modelling on Arable Lands and Soil Types in Basilicata, Southern Italy

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Effects of Land Use and Cropping on Soil Erosion in Agricultural Frontier Areas in the Cerrado-Amazon Ecotone, Brazil, Using a Rainfall Simulator Experiment

Effects of Land Use and Cropping on Soil Erosion in Agricultural Frontier Areas in the Cerrado-Amazon Ecotone, Brazil, Using a Rainfall Simulator Experiment

Innovation in Basilicata agriculture: From tradition to digital

The Impact of Land Use Changes on Soil Erosion in the River Basin of Miocki Potok, Montenegro

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