Effects of compaction due to machinery traffic on soil pore configuration

Soil compaction has been recognized as a severe problem in mechanized agriculture and has an influence on many soil properties and processes. Yet, there are few studies on the long-term effects of soil compaction, and the development of soil compaction has been shown through a limited number of soil...

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Autores principales: Soracco, Carlos Germán, Lozano, Luis Alberto, Villarreal, Rafael, Palancar, Telmo, Jorajuría Collazo, Daniel, Sarli, Guillermo Oliverio, Filgueira, Roberto Raúl
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Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/85911
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topic Ciencias Agrarias
Effective porosity
Hydraulic conductivity
Soil pore anisotropy
Total porosity
spellingShingle Ciencias Agrarias
Effective porosity
Hydraulic conductivity
Soil pore anisotropy
Total porosity
Soracco, Carlos Germán
Lozano, Luis Alberto
Villarreal, Rafael
Palancar, Telmo
Jorajuría Collazo, Daniel
Sarli, Guillermo Oliverio
Filgueira, Roberto Raúl
Effects of compaction due to machinery traffic on soil pore configuration
topic_facet Ciencias Agrarias
Effective porosity
Hydraulic conductivity
Soil pore anisotropy
Total porosity
description Soil compaction has been recognized as a severe problem in mechanized agriculture and has an influence on many soil properties and processes. Yet, there are few studies on the long-term effects of soil compaction, and the development of soil compaction has been shown through a limited number of soil parameters. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the persistence of soil compaction effects (three traffic treatments: T0, without traffic; T3, three tractor passes; and T5, five tractor passes) on pore system configuration, through static and dynamic determinations; and to determine changes in soil pore orientation due to soil compaction through measurement of hydraulic conductivity of saturated soil in samples taken vertically and horizontally. Traffic led to persistent changes in all the dynamic indicators studied (saturated hydraulic conductivity, K<sub>0</sub>; effective macro- and mesoporosity, ε<sub>ma</sub> and ε<sub>me</sub>), with significantly lower values of K0, ε<sub>ma</sub>, and ε<sub>me</sub> in the T5 treatment. The static indicators of bulk density (BD), derived total porosity (TP), and total macroporosity (θ<sub>ma</sub>) did not vary significantly among the treatments. This means that machine traffic did not produce persistent changes on these variables after two years. However, the orientation of the soil pore system was modified by traffic. Even in T0, there were greater changes in K<sub>0</sub> measured in the samples taken vertically than horizontally, which was more related to the presence of vertical biopores, and to isotropy of K<sub>0</sub> in the treatments with machine traffic. Overall, the results showed that dynamic indicators are more sensitive to the effects of compaction and that, in the future, static indicators should not be used as compaction indicators without being complemented by dynamic indicators.
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author Soracco, Carlos Germán
Lozano, Luis Alberto
Villarreal, Rafael
Palancar, Telmo
Jorajuría Collazo, Daniel
Sarli, Guillermo Oliverio
Filgueira, Roberto Raúl
author_facet Soracco, Carlos Germán
Lozano, Luis Alberto
Villarreal, Rafael
Palancar, Telmo
Jorajuría Collazo, Daniel
Sarli, Guillermo Oliverio
Filgueira, Roberto Raúl
author_sort Soracco, Carlos Germán
title Effects of compaction due to machinery traffic on soil pore configuration
title_short Effects of compaction due to machinery traffic on soil pore configuration
title_full Effects of compaction due to machinery traffic on soil pore configuration
title_fullStr Effects of compaction due to machinery traffic on soil pore configuration
title_full_unstemmed Effects of compaction due to machinery traffic on soil pore configuration
title_sort effects of compaction due to machinery traffic on soil pore configuration
publishDate 2015
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/85911
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