Impact of secondary succession in abandoned fields on some properties of acidic sandy soils

Title:

Impact of secondary succession in abandoned fields on some properties of acidic sandy soils

Creator:

Lichner, Ľubomír, Iovino, Massimo , Šurda, Peter, Nagy, Viliam, Zvala, Anton, Kollár, Jozef, Pecho, Jozef, Píš, Vladimír, Sepehrnia, Nasrollah, and Sándor, Renáta

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:0784d64d-47da-4859-8dc9-bbc9d12bad41
uuid:0784d64d-47da-4859-8dc9-bbc9d12bad41
doi:10.2478/johh-2019-0028

Subject:

water repellency, acidic sandy soil, land abandonment, secondary succession, and soil properties

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

počítač and online zdroj

Description:

Abandonment of agricultural lands in recent decades is occurring mainly in Europe, North America and Oceania, and changing the fate of landscapes as the ecosystem recovers during fallow stage. The objective of this study was to find the impact of secondary succession in abandoned fields on some parameters of acidic sandy soils in the Borská nížina lowland (southwestern Slovakia). We investigated soil chemical (pH and soil organic carbon content), hydrophysical (water sorptivity, and hydraulic conductivity), and water repellency (water drop penetration time, water repellency cessation time, repellency index, and modified repellency index) parameters, as well as the ethanol sorptivity of the studied soils. Both the hydrophysical and chemical parameters decreased significantly during abandonment of the three investigated agricultural fields. On the other hand, the water repellency parameters increased significantly, but the ethanol sorptivity did not change during abandonment. As the ethanol sorptivity depends mainly on soil pore size, the last finding could mean that the pore size of acidic sandy soils did not change during succession.

Language:

Slovak

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

12-18

Source:

Journal of hydrology and hydromechanics | 2020 Volume:68 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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