The effects of conservation tillage practices on the soil water-holding capacity of a non-irrigated apple orchard in the Loess Plateau, China

Liu, Yang; Gao, Maosheng; Wu, Wei; Tanveer, Sikander Khan; Wen, Xiaoxia; Liao, Yuncheng

doi:10.1016/j.still.2013.01.012

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“…Land use patterns could have a substantial influence on soil water-holding capacity [24]. In this study, soil in GE had the maximum water-holding capacity with higher capillary and saturated water because growing grass root might be important for increasing water-holding capacity.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 73%

Effects of Grazing Exclusion on Soil Properties in Maqin Alpine Meadow, Tibetan Plateau, China

Li¹,

Zhang²,

Shaojuan³

et al. 2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 73%

Effects of Grazing Exclusion on Soil Properties in Maqin Alpine Meadow, Tibetan Plateau, China

Li¹,

Zhang²,

Shaojuan³

et al. 2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…Water holding capacity of the topsoil is also generally higher due to increased SOM contents. Liu et al (2013b) found soil moisture content was most affected by residues compared to tillage practice; soil moisture remained highest throughout the growing season with NT plus residue, intermediate levels of soil moisture with tillage plus residues, and lowest levels with NT without residues. Likewise Thierfelder et al (2012Thierfelder et al ( , 2013b found higher soil moisture contents in Zambia for each of five years with NT and surface residue compared to CT with residues removed.…”

Section: Soil Physical Properties and Ecosystem Services: Water Infilmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Insufficient levels of surface residue combined with NT does not result in increased SOM (Nyamangara et al, 2013), soil moisture (Liu et al, 2013b) or related ES and can even result in decreased yields (Blanco-Canqui, 2010;Giller et al, 2009). The amounts of residues required to deliver the different ES is not known.…”

Section: Conservation Agriculture and Ecosystem Services In Smallholdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview

Palm

Blanco‐Canqui

DeClerck

et al. 2014

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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“…Soil available nutrients also increased significantly, the content of potassium in soil (0-55 cm) increased by 385.4% compared to soil covered with less straw (Yoong and Newton, 2012). Recent analyses (Liu et al, 2013;Feng et al, 2014) explored the effect of straw mulching on slope runoff and soil erosion. These results revealed that straw mulching can reduce silt content and control soil erosion (can be reduced by 50-80%), and its effect is enhanced by an increase in the thickness of the coverage.…”

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confidence: 99%

Effect of straw and polyacrylamide on the stability of land/water ecotone soil and the field implementation

Chen

Ngo

et al. 2016

Ecological Engineering

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Poor stability of land/water ecotone (L/WE) soil is a serious and increasing problem in the context of ecological restoration. Effective management by adding straw and polyacrylamide (PAM), i.e., SPAM, to soil may increase soil stability, including structure and fertility. Thus, it is important to explore the effects of SPAM on L/WE soil, as well as to determine the appropriate ratio of straw and PAM to achieve optimal increases. To investigate the soil properties and provide basis for ecological restoration, an indoor soil culture experiment, including nine straw and PAM combinations, was conducted. It was found that 3 g/kg straw with 1 g/kg PAM was optimal; thus, this scale was applied in engineering of Gonghu L/WE, which was turning Fishery to Lake. The survey explored changes in soil nutrients and structure, dry-sieved aggregate stability, and wet-sieved water aggregate stability under nine measures. Results indicated that the measurement of SPAM strongly affected soil properties, such as improvements in the fine sand and clay fraction, decreased coarse sand fraction and density, and enhanced content of the larger aggregates (>2 mm), organic matter (OM), available nitrogen (AN), available phosphorus (AP), and available potassium (AK). For soil nutrients, applying of Straw/PAM significantly improved the contents of OM/AN, respectively; showing an increasing trend with a dosage rate. Meanwhile, it was shown that SPAM was more effective than treating each individual component on AP and AK improvements. Regard-ing soil structure, application of PAM significantly increased contents of the dry-sieved aggregates and wet-sieved water-stable aggregates, especially aggregates >2 mm. Straw mulching only improved the content of dry-sieve medium size aggregates. However, when combining SPAM, the straw improved the medium particle size fraction, after which PAM converted a portion of the medium particles into >2.0 mm aggregates. Furthermore, the measure proved to be beneficial to land/water ecotone engineering.

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The effects of conservation tillage practices on the soil water-holding capacity of a non-irrigated apple orchard in the Loess Plateau, China

Cited by 118 publications

References 19 publications

Effects of Grazing Exclusion on Soil Properties in Maqin Alpine Meadow, Tibetan Plateau, China

Effects of Grazing Exclusion on Soil Properties in Maqin Alpine Meadow, Tibetan Plateau, China

Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview

Effect of straw and polyacrylamide on the stability of land/water ecotone soil and the field implementation

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