scholarly journals Effects of Land-Use Change on Soil Functionality and Biodiversity: Toward Sustainable Planning of New Vineyards

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 358
Author(s):  
Elena Gagnarli ◽  
Giuseppe Valboa ◽  
Nadia Vignozzi ◽  
Donatella Goggioli ◽  
Silvia Guidi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Soil Biodiversity ◽  
Soil Microarthropods ◽  
Quick Recovery ◽  
Sustainable Planning ◽  
Soil Functionality ◽  
One Year ◽  
Soil Microarthropod

Sustainable agriculture largely depends on soil biodiversity and requires efficient methods to assess the effectiveness of agronomic planning. Knowledge of the landscape and relative pedosite is enriched by data on the soil microarthropod community, which represent useful bio-indicators for early soil-quality detection in land-use change (LUC). In the hilly Maremma region of Grosseto, Italy, two areas, a >10ys meadow converted into a vineyard and an old biodynamic vineyard (no-LUC), were selected for evaluating the LUC effect. For maintaining soil vitality and ecosystem services by meadow, the vineyard was planted and cultivated using criteria of the patented “Corino method”. The aim was to evaluate the LUC impact, within one year, by assessing parameters characterizing soil properties and soil microarthropod communities after the vineyard was planted. The adopted preservative method in the new vineyards did not show a detrimental impact on the biodiversity of soil microarthropods, and in particular, additional mulching contributed to a quick recovery from soil stress due to working the plantation. In the short term, the adopted agricultural context confirmed that the targeted objectives preserved the soil quality and functionality.

Land Use Change Effects on Soil Quality in Prince Edward County, ON

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey Watts
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Organic Matter ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Bulk Density ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Water Holding Capacity ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Prince Edward County ◽  
Effects Of Land Use ◽  
Water Holding

Soils play a critical role to society as a medium that facilitates crop production and also contributes to the energy and carbon balance of the Earth System. Land-use change and improper land-use is one of the dominant factors affecting soil erosion and nutrient loss in soils. We examined the effects of land-use change on an Elmbrook clay/clay-loam soil on a farm in Ameliasburg on the northern part of Prince Edward County. Three cover types were examined: a sod field (established for over 10 years), a wheat field (part of a wheat/corn/soybean rotation for 30 years) and an undisturbed deciduous forest. Under each land-use type, cores to a depth of 40 cm were collected along three random 30 m transects (at 8, 16 and 24 m), then divided them into 10 cm increments, combining all similar depth increments along one transect. Soil quality was assessed by analyzing various soil physical and chemical properties. Bulk density of the soil was much higher (1.55 vs. 0.95 g/cm3) in both agricultural ecosystems compared to the forest, but only in the 0-10 cm layer. Soil moisture at 60% water holding capacity was much greater for the forest than the sod and wheat soils. Soil pH was slightly lower in the forest compared to the sod and wheat fields. The sod and wheat fields showed losses of ~52% and ~53% organic matter, respectively, in contrast to the forested area. The greatest differences in organic matter and total carbon were found in the top 10 cm, likely due to the greater accumulation of litter at the ground surface in the forest compared to the agricultural sites. It appears that long-term (10 year) agricultural production has led to a decline in some, but not all, soil quality measures, particularly soil organic matter, bulk density and water holding capacity. These findings are consistent with much of the literature concerning the effects of land-use change on soil quality, and highlight the need to develop improved management systems to minimize losses in soil quality that can lead to declines in the productivity potential of soils over time.

Modelling soil quality changes in Europe. An impact assessment of land use change on soil quality in Europe

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Podmanicky ◽  
K. Balázs ◽  
M. Belényesi ◽  
Cs. Centeri ◽  
D. Kristóf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Quality Changes

Land-use change alters patterns of soil biodiversity in arid lands of northwestern China

2018 ◽  
Vol 428 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 371-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-Rui Li ◽  
Ji-Liang Liu ◽  
Wei Ren ◽  
Lu-Lu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Arid Lands ◽  
Northwestern China ◽  
Soil Biodiversity

scholarly journals Evaluating the Public’s Preferences toward Sustainable Planning under Climate and Land Use Change in Forest Parks

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Lin Lee ◽  
Chiung-Hsin Wang ◽  
Chun-Hung Lee ◽  
Supasit Sriarkarin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Secondary Forest ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Sustainable Planning ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Agricultural Landowners

Balancing the goals of sustainable planning under climate and land use change (CLUC) with ecosystem service functions is a huge challenge for the management and programming of protected areas today. We construct a new evaluation framework towards the perspectives of sustainable land management based on the choice experiment (CE) model, and apply it to investigate the public’s preferences for the forest parks in Taiwan. This study found that implementing organic farming, increasing species populations, increasing the acreage of secondary forest area, and developing an integrated framework for ecotourism would best satisfy the public’s preferences for sustainable land use management. Second, we identify that the heterogeneity of the public’s preferences for forest park management varies depending on whether individuals are (1) members of environmental groups, (2) agricultural landowners, and (3) residents of the municipality. Third, we find integrated land use programs generate the highest welfare values among scenarios comprising different financial attributes.

Land use change effects on soil quality and biological fertility: A case study in northern Iran

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 103119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmaeil Bakhshandeh ◽  
Mehdi Hossieni ◽  
Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh ◽  
Rosa Francaviglia
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Northern Iran

The Effect of Land-Use Change on Urban Grassland Soil Quality (Southern Poland)

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-483
Author(s):  
Miłosz Podwika ◽  
Katarzyna Solek-Podwika ◽  
Dorota Kaleta ◽  
Krystyna Ciarkowska
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Grassland Soil ◽  
Southern Poland

Effects of Land Use Change on Soil Quality Indicators in Forest Landscapes of the Western Amazon

Soil Science ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 182 (4) ◽  
pp. 128-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Bonilla-Bedoya ◽  
Magdalena López-Ulloa ◽  
Tom Vanwalleghem ◽  
Miguel Ángel Herrera-Machuca
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Soil Quality Indicators ◽  
Effects Of Land Use

scholarly journals Identifying potential threats to soil biodiversity

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e9271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Tibbett ◽  
Tandra D. Fraser ◽  
Sarah Duddigan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Soil Biodiversity ◽  
Intensive Exploitation

A decline in soil biodiversity is generally considered to be the reduction of forms of life living in soils, both in terms of quantity and variety. Where soil biodiversity decline occurs, it can significantly affect the soils’ ability to function, respond to perturbations and recover from a disturbance. Several soil threats have been identified as having negative effects on soil biodiversity, including human intensive exploitation, land-use change and soil organic matter decline. In this review we consider what we mean by soil biodiversity, and why it is important to monitor. After a thorough review of the literature identified on a Web of Science search concerning threats to soil biodiversity (topic search: threat* “soil biodiversity”), we compiled a table of biodiversity threats considered in each paper including climate change, land use change, intensive human exploitation, decline in soil health or plastic; followed by detailed listings of threats studied. This we compared to a previously published expert assessment of threats to soil biodiversity. In addition, we identified emerging threats, particularly microplastics, in the 10 years following these knowledge based rankings. We found that many soil biodiversity studies do not focus on biodiversity sensu stricto, rather these studies examined either changes in abundance and/or diversity of individual groups of soil biota, instead of soil biodiversity as a whole, encompassing all levels of the soil food web. This highlights the complexity of soil biodiversity which is often impractical to assess in all but the largest studies. Published global scientific activity was only partially related to the threats identified by the expert panel assessment. The number of threats and the priority given to the threats (by number of publications) were quite different, indicating a disparity between research actions versus perceived threats. The lack of research effort in key areas of high priority in the threats to soil biodiversity are a concerning finding and requires some consideration and debate in the research community.

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