Water‐stable aggregates and organic matter pools in a calcareous vineyard soil under four soil‐surface management systems

Goulet, Etienne; Dousset, Sylvie; Chaussod, Rémi; Bartoli, F.; Doledec, A.F.; Andreux, F.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00376.x

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“…The re-introduction of autumn tillage after thirteen years of permanent grass did not reduce 306 OC contents, as instead commonly observed (e.g., Goulet et al 2004;Peregrina et al 2012). 307…”

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confidence: 63%

“…Despite the general consensus on the positive role of organic matter inputs and reduced tillage in 49 vineyards (Goulet et al 2004;Steenwerth and Belina 2008;Peregrina et al 2012;Simansky et al 50 2013), only a few works have related these practices to aggregation and SOM dynamics and 51 evaluated the time scale of soil quality improvement or decline. Moreover, in most experiments 52 permanent grass has been compared to situations where tillage was carried out several times per 53 year resulting in strong structure degradation.…”

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Effects of permanent grass versus tillage on aggregation and organic matter dynamics in a poorly developed vineyard soil

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This is the author's final version of the contribution published as:Belmonte, Sergio A; Celi, Luisella; Stanchi, Silvia; Said-Pullicino, Daniel; Zanini, Ermanno; Bonifacio, Eleonora. Effects of permanent grass versus tillage on aggregation and organic matter dynamics in a poorly developed vineyard soil. SOIL RESEARCH. 54 (7) AbstractVineyard soils are typically characterised by poor development, low organic matter content, steep slopes, and consequently a limited capacity of conservation of the organic matter which is weakly bound to the mineral soil phase. In such conditions, permanent grass may help the conservation of the soil quality. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effects of permanent grass vs. single autumn tillage on soil structure and organic matter dynamics in a hilly vineyard. In the periods 1994-1996 and 2010-2012 soil samples were collected three times per year, in different seasons. Aggregate stability analyses and organic matter fractionation were performed. The effects of grass cover on soil recovery capacity after tillage disturbance were slow. Slight increases in aggregate resistance and organic matter contents were visible after three years, and only after long-lasting permanent grass the two plots (permanent grass/previously tilled) showed great decrease of aggregate losses and increase of organic matter. Even a single tillage produced however an immediate decrease in aggregate resistance, while the amounts of organic matter remained unaffected. Organic matter, however, showed marked seasonal dynamics, which involved not only recently added organic matter fractions but also the mineral-associated pool. Tillage altered organic matter dynamics by preventing the addition of new material into the mineral-associated organic fractions and limiting the stabilization of aggregates.

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Effects of permanent grass versus tillage on aggregation and organic matter dynamics in a poorly developed vineyard soil

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“…Output services and disservices are provided by service crops from vineyard (lower portion of Figure 1 et al, 2011). They improve the stability of soil aggregates (Goulet et al, 2004) and protect them from the impacts of rain drops, reducing aggregate breakdown and soil detachment (Dabney et al, 2001). Service crops also prevent soil crusting and sealing (Durán Zuazo and Rodríguez Pleguezuelo, 2008).…”

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Management of service crops for the provision of ecosystem services in vineyards: A review

Garcia

Celette

Gary

et al. 2018

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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Service crops are crops grown with the aim of providing non-marketed ecosystem services, i.e. differing from food, fiber and fuel production. Vineyard soils face various agronomic issues such as poor organic carbon levels, erosion, fertility losses, and numerous studies have highlighted the ability of service crops to address these issues. In addition to their ability to increase soil organic matter and fertility, and reduce runoff and erosion processes, service crops provide a large variety of ecosystem services in vineyards such as weed control, pest and disease regulation, water supply, water purification, improvement of field trafficability and maintenance of soil biodiversity. However, associating service crops with grapevines may also generate disservices and impair grape production: competition for soil resources with the grapevine is often highlighted to reject such association. Consequently, vinegrowers have to find a balance between services and disservices, depending on local soil and climate conditions, on their objectives of grape production and on the nature and temporality of the ecosystem services they expect during the grapevine cycle. This study proposes a review of the services and disservices provided by service crops in vineyards, and a framework for their management. Vinegrowers' production objectives and pedoclimatic constraints form the preliminary stage to consider before defining a strategy of service crop management. This strategy assembles management options such as the choice of species, its spatial distribution within the vineyard, the timing of its installation, maintenance and destruction. These management options, defined for both annual and long-term time scales, form action levers which may impact cropping system functioning. Finally, we underline the importance of implementing an adaptive strategy at the seasonal time scale. Such tactical management allows adapting the cropping system to observed climate and state of the biophysical system during the grapevine cycle, in order to provide targeted services and achieve satisfactory production objectives.

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“…Tillage is considered the best way to conserve water and control weeds, although it may favour erosion and stimulate the oxidation of SOM following the disruption of soil aggregates (Balesdent et al, 2000;Steenwerth et al, 2010). In contrast, growing grass in the vineyard alleys reduces erosion in the hilly environments and favours the traffic of farm machinery (Corti et al, 2011), but increases competition for nutrients and water (Goulet et al, 2004). With respect to SOM, Goulet et al (2004) observed an increase of the organic C in the topsoil of vineyards from Champagne (France) subjected to organicmulch or bluegrass cover over 9 years.…”

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Carbon and nitrogen in soil and vine roots in harrowed and grass-covered vineyards

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Bol

Trumbore

et al. 2014

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a b s t r a c tTo examine the effects of vineyard soil management on soil C and N content and quality, we studied harrowed and grass-covered vineyards on a soil developed on plio-pleistocene, marine sediments. A soil naturally covered by grasses adjacent to the vineyards served as control. To reach this goal, we assessed (1) the distribution of C and N and their 13 C and 15 N signatures in different soil organic matter pools, (2) the amount of C and N as live and dead vine fine roots and their 13 C, 15 N and 14 C signatures, and (3) the stocks of C and N forms accumulated at two soil-depth intervals (0-50 and 50-100 cm).Independent of the soil management, the vines increased the total organic C and total N content in the deeper soil horizons because of root turnover and rhizodeposition processes. In the upper horizons, a greater organic matter accumulation was fostered by the presence of the grass cover and the absence of tillage. The grass cover favoured the organic C storage mainly in the form of particulate and highly stabilised organic matter (humic acids and humin), and reduced the soil N content by plant uptake, whereas the harrowing produced a greater abundance of fulvic acids, which were mainly ascribed to oxidative processes enhanced by the soil tillage. In both vineyard soils, decaying vine roots represented an important source of organic C and N, especially in the deepest horizons. Indeed, isotope analyses revealed a more intense degradation of the dead vine roots in the deeper soil portion, where they likely constituted the main substrate for soil microorganisms. In the deepest horizons of the grass-covered vineyard, the greater mean residence time of the decaying vine roots and the lower root production were attributed to the easily available energetic substrates supplied by grass root turnover and rhizodeposition, which were preferentially used by microorganisms. This fact fostered a larger C accumulation in the grass-covered than in the harrowed vineyard.

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Water‐stable aggregates and organic matter pools in a calcareous vineyard soil under four soil‐surface management systems

Cited by 41 publications

References 26 publications

Effects of permanent grass versus tillage on aggregation and organic matter dynamics in a poorly developed vineyard soil

Effects of permanent grass versus tillage on aggregation and organic matter dynamics in a poorly developed vineyard soil

Management of service crops for the provision of ecosystem services in vineyards: A review

Carbon and nitrogen in soil and vine roots in harrowed and grass-covered vineyards

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