The combination of crop diversification and no tillage enhances key soil quality parameters related to soil functioning without compromising crop yields in a low-input rainfed almond orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions
Soils provide key ecosystem services and are crucial to combat climate change. Agriculture provides important ecosystem services but also causes negative environmental effects depending on agricultural management. In this regard, crop diversification is a promising sustainable land management strate...
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| author | Almagro, María Díaz-Pereira, Elvira Boix-Fayos, Carolina Zornoza, Raúl Sánchez-Navarro, Virginia Re, Paula Fernández, Cristina Martínez-Mena, María |
| author_browse | Almagro, María Boix-Fayos, Carolina Díaz-Pereira, Elvira Fernández, Cristina Martínez-Mena, María Re, Paula Sánchez-Navarro, Virginia Zornoza, Raúl |
| author_facet | Almagro, María Díaz-Pereira, Elvira Boix-Fayos, Carolina Zornoza, Raúl Sánchez-Navarro, Virginia Re, Paula Fernández, Cristina Martínez-Mena, María |
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| description | Soils provide key ecosystem services and are crucial to combat climate change. Agriculture provides important ecosystem services but also causes negative environmental effects depending on agricultural management. In this regard, crop diversification is a promising sustainable land management strategy to combat soil erosion and degradation, mitigate climate change and ensure food security. Here, we assess the combined short-term effects of crop diversification and no tillage on several key soil physico-chemical parameters related to soil functioning as well as on crop yields in a rainfed almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions. Almond trees were inter-cropped with Capparis spinosa L. (caper) or Thymus hyemalis Lange (winter thyme) and compared with the almond monocrop system. The experimental design consisted of three plots in a randomized-block design, with three replicates for each crop management treatment (almond monocrop, almond inter-cropped with caper, and almond inter-cropped with winter thyme). Along with crop yields, the combined effects of crop diversification and no tillage on a range of soil quality and health indicators including soil physical (bulk density, aggregate stability, water retention and availability) and chemical (total and particulate organic carbon and nitrogen, ammonium and nitrate content, available macro- and micro-nutrients) properties were monitored in the topsoil and subsoil (at 0–10 and 10–30 cm depth, respectively) one and three years from establishment. |
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| spelling | INTA138902023-01-12T09:55:14Z The combination of crop diversification and no tillage enhances key soil quality parameters related to soil functioning without compromising crop yields in a low-input rainfed almond orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions Almagro, María Díaz-Pereira, Elvira Boix-Fayos, Carolina Zornoza, Raúl Sánchez-Navarro, Virginia Re, Paula Fernández, Cristina Martínez-Mena, María Cultivos Diversificación Manejo del Suelo Cero-labranza Cultivo Intercalado Servicios de los Ecosistemas Almendra Crops Diversification Soil Management Zero Tillage Intercropping Ecosystem Services Almonds Soils provide key ecosystem services and are crucial to combat climate change. Agriculture provides important ecosystem services but also causes negative environmental effects depending on agricultural management. In this regard, crop diversification is a promising sustainable land management strategy to combat soil erosion and degradation, mitigate climate change and ensure food security. Here, we assess the combined short-term effects of crop diversification and no tillage on several key soil physico-chemical parameters related to soil functioning as well as on crop yields in a rainfed almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions. Almond trees were inter-cropped with Capparis spinosa L. (caper) or Thymus hyemalis Lange (winter thyme) and compared with the almond monocrop system. The experimental design consisted of three plots in a randomized-block design, with three replicates for each crop management treatment (almond monocrop, almond inter-cropped with caper, and almond inter-cropped with winter thyme). Along with crop yields, the combined effects of crop diversification and no tillage on a range of soil quality and health indicators including soil physical (bulk density, aggregate stability, water retention and availability) and chemical (total and particulate organic carbon and nitrogen, ammonium and nitrate content, available macro- and micro-nutrients) properties were monitored in the topsoil and subsoil (at 0–10 and 10–30 cm depth, respectively) one and three years from establishment. EEA Delta del Paraná Fil: Almagro, María. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura; España Fil: Díaz-Pereira, Elvira. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura; España Fil: Boix-Fayos, Carolina. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura; España Fil: Zornoza, Raúl. Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. Departamento de Ingeniería Agronómica; España Fil: Sánchez-Navarro, Virginia. Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. Departamento de Ingeniería Agronómica; España Fil: Re, Paula. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Delta del Paraná; Argentina Fil: Re, Paula. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía; Argentina Fil: Fernández, Cristina. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura; España Fil: Martínez-Mena, María. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura; España 2023-01-12T09:52:39Z 2023-01-12T09:52:39Z 2023-04 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/13890 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880922004698 0167-8809 1873-2305 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108320 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Elsevier Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 345 : 108320 (April 2023) |
| spellingShingle | Cultivos Diversificación Manejo del Suelo Cero-labranza Cultivo Intercalado Servicios de los Ecosistemas Almendra Crops Diversification Soil Management Zero Tillage Intercropping Ecosystem Services Almonds Almagro, María Díaz-Pereira, Elvira Boix-Fayos, Carolina Zornoza, Raúl Sánchez-Navarro, Virginia Re, Paula Fernández, Cristina Martínez-Mena, María The combination of crop diversification and no tillage enhances key soil quality parameters related to soil functioning without compromising crop yields in a low-input rainfed almond orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions |
| title | The combination of crop diversification and no tillage enhances key soil quality parameters related to soil functioning without compromising crop yields in a low-input rainfed almond orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions |
| title_full | The combination of crop diversification and no tillage enhances key soil quality parameters related to soil functioning without compromising crop yields in a low-input rainfed almond orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions |
| title_fullStr | The combination of crop diversification and no tillage enhances key soil quality parameters related to soil functioning without compromising crop yields in a low-input rainfed almond orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions |
| title_full_unstemmed | The combination of crop diversification and no tillage enhances key soil quality parameters related to soil functioning without compromising crop yields in a low-input rainfed almond orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions |
| title_short | The combination of crop diversification and no tillage enhances key soil quality parameters related to soil functioning without compromising crop yields in a low-input rainfed almond orchard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions |
| title_sort | combination of crop diversification and no tillage enhances key soil quality parameters related to soil functioning without compromising crop yields in a low input rainfed almond orchard under semiarid mediterranean conditions |
| topic | Cultivos Diversificación Manejo del Suelo Cero-labranza Cultivo Intercalado Servicios de los Ecosistemas Almendra Crops Diversification Soil Management Zero Tillage Intercropping Ecosystem Services Almonds |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/13890 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880922004698 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108320 |
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