| Title | Using Beerkan Procedure to Estimate Hydraulic Soil Properties under Long Term Agroecosystems Experiments |
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| ID_Doc | 65168 |
| Authors | Vergni, L; Tosi, G; Bertuzzi, J; Rossi, G; Farneselli, M; Tosti, G; Tei, F; Agnelli, A; Todisco, F |
| Title | Using Beerkan Procedure to Estimate Hydraulic Soil Properties under Long Term Agroecosystems Experiments |
| Year | 2024 |
| Published | Applied Sciences-Basel, 14.0, 9 |
| Abstract | The BEST (Beerkan Estimation of Soil Transfer parameters) method was used to compare the hydraulic properties of the soils in two Long-term Agroecosystem Experiments (LTAEs) located at the FIELDLAB experimental site of the University of Perugia (central Italy). The LTAE "NewSmoca" consists of a biennial maize-durum wheat crop rotation under integrated low-input cropping systems with (i) inversion soil tillage (INT) or (ii) no-tillage (INT+) and (iii) under an organic cropping system with inversion soil tillage (ORG). ORG and INT+ involve the use of autumn-sown cover crops (before the maize cycle). Pure stand durum wheat was grown in INT and INT+, while a faba bean-wheat temporary intercropping was implemented in ORG. The LTAE "Crop Rotation" consists of different crop rotations and residue management, a continuous soft winter wheat and biennial rotations of soft winter wheat with maize or faba bean. Each rotation is combined with two modes of crop residue management: removal or burial. For INT+, despite the high-bulk density (>1.50 g/cm(3)), we found that conductivity, sorptivity and available water are comparable to those of INT, probably due to a more structured and efficient micropore system. ORG soils show the highest conductivity, sorptivity and available water content values, probably due to the recent spring tillage occurring in the wheat inter-row with the faba bean incorporation into the soil. For LTAE Rotation, the residue burial seems to influence the capacity-based indicators positively. However, the differences in the removal treatment are minor, and this could be due to the inversion soil tillage, which limits the progressive accumulation of organic matter. |
| https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/9/3817/pdf?version=1714451253 |
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