Use of barley straw residues to avoid high erosion and runoff rates on persimmon plantations in Eastern Spain under low frequency–high magnitude simulated rainfall events

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CSIRO PublishingCerdà, A.; González-Pelayo, Ó.; Giménez Morera, A.; Jordán, A.; Pereira, P.; Novara, A.; Brevik, EC.... (2016). Use of barley straw residues to avoid high erosion and runoff rates on persimmon plantations in Eastern Spain under low frequency-high magnitude simulated rainfall events. Soil Research. 54(2):154-165. doi:10.1071/SR15092.The use of barley straw residues to avoid high erosion and 1 runoff rates on persimmon plantations in Eastern Spain under low frequency -high magnitude simulated rainfall events Artemi Cerdà (1) Óscar González-Pelayo (1), Antonio Giménez-Morera (2), Antonio Jordán (3), Paulo Pereira (4), Agata Novara (5), Eric C. Brevik (6), Massimo Prosdocimi (7), Majid Mahmoodabadi (8), Saskia Keesstra (9), Fuensanta García Orenes (10), Coen Ritsema (9) (1) Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. oscar.gonzalez-pelayo@uv.es and artemio.cerda@uv.es / www.soilerosion.eu Cerdà, Artemi, Óscar González-Pelayo, Antonio Giménez-Morera, Antonio Jordán, Paulo Pereira, Agata Novara, Eric C. Brevik, Massimo Prosdocimi, Majid Mahmoodabadi, Saskia Keesstra, Fuensanta García Orenes, and Coen Ritsema. The use of barley straw residues to avoid high erosion and runoff rates on persimmon plantations in Eastern Spain under low frequency -high magnitude simulated rainfall events. Soil Research. in press. . The straw mulch was found to be extremely efficient in reducing soil erosion rates.

The immediate effectiveness of barley straw mulch in reducing soil erodibility and surface runoff generation in Mediterranean vineyards

“…This is a direct effect of the straw and other organic fibers that reduced raindrop impact on the soil, delayed runoff initiation and increased infiltration. These findings were also confirmed by Döring et al (2005) and Edwards et al (2000) in straw-mulched potato-cropped soils, García Moreno et al (2013) in straw-mulched fruit orchards, Jordán et al (2010) in strawmulched fallow soils, and Cerdà et al (2015) in persimmon plantations.…”

Soil and Water Conservation in Rainfed Vineyards with Common Sainfoin and Spontaneous Vegetation under Different Ground Conditions

“…On the other hand, annual runoff and soil losses in woody crops are strongly conditioned by few precipitation events of high rainfall intensity and/or depth [41,42]. Under low frequency-high magnitude rainfall events, straw residues and VC can reduce soil erosion and runoff rates in fruit-tree orchards [43].…”

Zero net livelihood degradation – the quest for a multidimensional protocol to combat desertification

“…The dominant approaches of many suggested practices are still purely biophysical (e.g. García-Orenes et al, 2012;Weyers and Spokas, 2014;Sadeghi et al, 2015;Cerdà et al, 2015). However, the livelihood approach provides the perspective that natural resource degradation should be tackled in a wider manner than only a cause-and-effect logic due to a linear ecological process (Gharibvand et al, 2015).…”