Trafficking intensity index for soil compaction management in grasslands

Bondi, Giulia; O’Sullivan, Lilian; Fenton, Owen; Creamer, Rachel; Marongiu, Irene; Wall, David P.

doi:10.1111/sum.12586

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“…Among the direct and indirect sources of variations in the EU, tillage, agricultural machinery involved in soil management, and trampling by animals can alter BD over the year (Colombi et al, 2018; Franzluebbers et al, 1995; Schillaci et al, 2021) with respect to undisturbed soil. Compaction might persist for years after disturbance (Bondi et al, 2021).…”

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Fine earth soil bulk density at 0.2 m depth from Land Use and Coverage Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) soil 2018

Pacini

Yunta

Jones

et al. 2023

European J Soil Science

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Soil Bulk Density (BD) is an extremely important variable because it is an important site characterization parameter, and it is highly relevant for policy development because it is mandatory for calculating soil nutrient stocks. BD can influence soil chemical properties, land‐use planning and agronomic management. The 2018 Land Use and Coverage Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) saw the unprecedented collection of BD core analysis in a subset of the locations in Europe and the United Kingdom where soil physical and chemical properties were analysed in the 2009 and the 2015 sampling campaigns. Here, we integrated the LUCAS 2018 BD sampling campaign with the mass fraction of coarse fragments previously determined in LUCAS 2009–2015 in order to provide a dataset of the volume fraction of coarse fragments and the BD of the fine earth and improve soil organic carbon (SOC) stock estimation accuracy for topsoil. BD data sampled at 0–10 and 10–20 cm were averaged to harmonize the BD with the mass fraction of coarse fragments measured in 2009, 2012 and 2015. Samples were from cropland, grassland and woodland soils, which accounted for 41%, 21% and 30%, respectively, of the total number of selected sites (n = 6059); ‘bareland’, and ‘shrubland’ accounted for 3% of the sites each, whereas ‘artificial land’ accounted for <1%. Only six samples were classified as ‘wetland’. The dataset was produced assuming the mass density of the coarse fraction to be constant across all LUCAS soil samples. We also estimated the SOC stocks associated with LUCAS 2018 BD and SOC content measurements and showed that correcting the BD by the coarse mass fraction instead of the coarse volume fraction generates SOC stock underestimation. We found the highest deviations in woodlands and shrublands. We showed that, when SOC stock is computed with coarse mass fraction, the error compared with the computation by volume may vary depending on the SOC and coarse mass fraction. This may imply a SOC stock underestimation for European soils. This dataset fits into the big framework of LUCAS soil properties monitoring and contributes both to soil awareness and soil research and assessments, which are two important objectives of the Soil Strategy and the European Soil Observatory (EUSO).

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Fine earth soil bulk density at 0.2 m depth from Land Use and Coverage Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) soil 2018

Pacini

Yunta

Jones

et al. 2023

European J Soil Science

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“…Apenas a produção de feno utiliza em média cinco passadas de máquinas por corte AMES, 2015). O intenso tráfego de máquinas utilizado na produção de forragens conservadas, associado a condições inadequadas de água no solo, condiciona a compactação do solo e a degradação das pastagens (BONDI et al, 2020;CASTAGNARA et al, 2015).…”

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Infiltração de água e resistência do solo à penetração em sistemas de cultivos integrados e em área de pastagem degradada

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The objective of this study was to quantify water infiltration and resistance to penetration in a Latossolo Vermelho Distrófico (Typic Haplustox) cultivated with different land use systems and in a degraded pasture area. The studied areas are located in Rio Verde, state of Goiás (Brazil), where seven treatments were evaluated: T1 -Degraded; T2 -Fertilized pasture; T3 -Conventional; T4 -Crop-forest integrationsystem(CFI); T5 -Livestock-forest integrationsystem(LFI); T6 -crop-livestock-forest integration system (CLFI -hay); and T7 -crop-livestock-forest integration system (CLFI-silage). The water infiltration speed curves and the respective basic infiltration rate (BIR) values for the areas under study were determined. The infiltration of water into the soil was determined “in situ” by the double ring infiltrometer method and empirically through models proposed by Kostiakov and Kostiakov-Lewis. The soil resistance to penetration, up to a depth of 0.3 m, was performed using an impact penetrometer. The greatest infiltration in relation to time occurred in treatment T7. The highest values of BIR occurred in treatment T5. The model proposed by Kostiakov showed greater adjustment to the infiltration speed data obtained in the field. The lower resistance of the soil to penetration is provided by the diversity of species in the T4 treatment. The different management systems for recovering degraded pastures influenced the soil quality indicators studied, but there is a need for further studies to adjust the stocking rates in integrated systems in order not to return to the degradation scenario.

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“…Grazing exclusion ceased animal trampling and reduced soil compaction (Li, Hooper, et al, 2021), which improves soil structure and infiltration (Hargreaves et al, 2019). Reduced soil compaction favors microbial activities to stimulate nutrient cycling while fostering physical protection of SOC in the topsoil layers (Bondi et al, 2021;Zhang, Sun, et al, 2019).…”

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Plant biotype interacting grazing activity shapes grassland ecosystem functions

Wang,

Feng,

Sun

et al. 2023

Ecosphere

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Grasslands play an essential role in maintaining the health of planet Earth, but many grasslands have lost their ecosystem services due to unsustainable management practices, such as overgrazing. Little is known about how grazing activity interacts with plant biotypes, impacting grassland ecosystem services. Here, we (1) assessed the relative performance of five plant biotypes in response to grazing activities and (2) determined the effectiveness of grazing exclusion in enhancing soil physiochemical properties in grasslands. The synthesis of 39,214 observations on plant‐, soil‐, and anthropogeny‐related factors from 88 published studies revealed that grazing exclusion increased aboveground plant biomass accumulation by 100.4% (±4.2 SE), belowground biomass by 70.2% (±25.7), total soil C content by 21.4% (±1.7), and soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration by 14.3% (±0.8), on average, as compared to moderate‐to‐heavy (MtH) grazing. Plant biotypes responded to grazing activities differently; alpine meadows increased total soil C content by 107.2%, alpine steppes increased SOC by 52.2%, but desert steppes decreased total C content by 21.8% under the grazing exclusion. All plant biotypes reduced soil bulk density by 6.4%–19.4% under grazing exclusion. Soil microbial community diversity responded to grazing activities inconsistently, ranging from an 18% decrease to a 26% increase in soil microbial diversity compared to MtH grazing. We conclude that selecting appropriate plant biotypes alongside improved grazing management will enhance grassland ecosystem functions and services as plant biotypes affect aboveground and belowground biomass and interface with soil physiochemical properties.

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Trafficking intensity index for soil compaction management in grasslands

Cited by 19 publications

References 47 publications

Fine earth soil bulk density at 0.2 m depth from Land Use and Coverage Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) soil 2018

Fine earth soil bulk density at 0.2 m depth from Land Use and Coverage Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) soil 2018

Infiltração de água e resistência do solo à penetração em sistemas de cultivos integrados e em área de pastagem degradada

Plant biotype interacting grazing activity shapes grassland ecosystem functions

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