Use of barley straw residues to avoid high erosion and runoff rates on persimmon plantations in Eastern Spain under low frequency–high magnitude simulated rainfall events
Artemi Cerdà A K , Óscar González-Pelayo A , Antonio Giménez-Morera B , Antonio Jordán C , Paulo Pereira D , Agata Novara E , Eric C. Brevik F , Massimo Prosdocimi G , Majid Mahmoodabadi H , Saskia Keesstra I , Fuensanta García Orenes J and Coen J. Ritsema I
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A Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Valencia, Avenida de Blasco Ibáñez, 28, 46010 València, Spain.
B Departamento de Economía y Ciencias Sociales, Escuela politécnica superior de Alcoy, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Paseo del Viaducto, 1 03801 Alcoy, Alicante, Spain.
C MED_Soil Research Group, Department of Crystallography, Mineralogy and Agricultural Chemistry, University of Seville, Calle San Fernando 4, 41004 Sevilla, Spain.
D Department of Environmental Policy, Mykolas Romeris University, Ateities g. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania.
E Dipartimento dei Sistemi Agro-ambientali, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
F Department of Natural Sciences, Dickinson State University, 291 Campus Drive, Dickinson, ND 58601, USA.
G Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Agripolis, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy.
H Dept. of Soil Science, Agriculture Faculty, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, PO Box, 76169133, Kerman, Iran.
I Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
J Environmental Soil Science Group. Department of Agrochemistry and Environment. Miguel Hernández University, Avenida de la Universidad s/n, Elche, Alicante, Spain.
K Corresponding author. Email: artemio.cerda@uv.es; artemio.cerdabolinches@wur.nl
Soil Research 54(2) 154-165 https://doi.org/10.1071/SR15092
Submitted: 26 March 2015 Accepted: 2 October 2015 Published: 15 March 2016
Abstract
Soil and water losses due to agricultural mismanagement are high and non-sustainable in many orchards. An experiment was set up with rainfall simulation at 78 mm h–1 over 1 hour on 20 paired plots of 2 m2 (bare and straw covered) in new persimmon plantations in Eastern Spain. Effects of straw cover on the control of soil and water losses were assessed. An addition of 60% straw cover (75 g m–2) resulted in delayed ponding and runoff generation and consequently reduced water losses from 60% to 13% of total rainfall. The straw cover reduced raindrop impact and thus sediment detachment from 1014 to 47 g plot–1 h–1. The erosion rate was reduced from 5.1 to 0.2 Mg ha–1 h–1. The straw mulch was found to be extremely efficient in reducing soil erosion rates.
Additional keywords: persimmon plantations, management, erosion, hydrology, rainfall simulation.
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