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The impact of the permanent grass cover or conventional tillage on hydraulic properties of Haplic Cambisol developed on paragneiss substrate

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This study is focused on the comparison of soil structure and soil hydraulic properties of a Haplic Cambisol on paragneiss under two different land managements. Soil samples were taken from all diagnostic horizons (A, Bw and C) of the soil profile under the permanent grass cover (grassland) and under the conventional tillage (arable land). Basic soil properties were measured. Aggregate stability was assessed using the WSA index. Soil composition was evaluated using micromorphological images. Tension disk infiltrometers with two diameters of 2.22 and 10.25 cm (and applied pressure head of −2 cm) and Guelph permeameter were used to measure unsaturated and saturated hydraulic conductivities, respectively. Soil hydraulic properties were measured in the laboratory using the multistep outflow experiment, which was performed on the undisturbed 100 cm3 soil samples. Results showed that the unsaturated and saturated hydraulic conductivities measured in all horizons were lower at the arable land than conductivities at the grassland. The shapes of the soil water retention curves for A and Bw horizons were also different, indicating that soil below the grass contained larger fraction of the large capillary pores, which also corresponded to measured hydraulic conductivities and soil structure characteristics. Differences between both locations were caused by a negative impact of tillage (inflicting soil degradation) and positive influence of grass (increasing organic matter content and improving soil aggregation).

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Authors acknowledge the financial support of the Czech Science Foundation grants no. 526/08/0434 and 13-12477S, and Dr. Žigová for taking micro-morphological images.

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    Miroslav Fér, Radka Kodešová, Antonín Nikodem, Veronika Jirků, Ondřej Jakšík & Karel Němeček

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Fér, M., Kodešová, R., Nikodem, A. et al. The impact of the permanent grass cover or conventional tillage on hydraulic properties of Haplic Cambisol developed on paragneiss substrate. Biologia 71, 1144–1150 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2016-0133

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