Assessing and transferring soil health information in a hilly terrain

Chhipa, Vaibhav; Stein, Alfred; Shankar, Hari; K, Justin George; Alidoost, Fakhereh

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.02.018

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“…However, it is essential to maintain an optimum sampling density for producing quality soil maps (Minasny et al, 2013). Chhipa et al (2019) have used an optimal sampling technique by selecting sample points, which provided minimum kriging variance.…”

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Identifying opportunities to improve digital soil mapping in India: A systematic review

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Identifying opportunities to improve digital soil mapping in India: A systematic review

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“…To be able to estimate those changes, there is a burning need for reliable indicators that are sensitive to changes in land-use and land management, and, at the same time, are cost-effective 3 . This challenge is even larger in the case of biological soil health indicators 4 – 6 that represent the soil biota activity, composition, density, diversity and trophic interactions.…”

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A sensitive soil biological indicator to changes in land-use in regions with Mediterranean climate

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The demand for reliable indicators to quantify soil health has increased recently. We propose and test the use of soil microbial functional diversity as an indicator of multifunctional performance in agriculturally important areas. Agricultural fields in the Mediterranean and semiarid regions of Israel were selected as test sites and measured in Spring and Autumn seasons. Measurements included microbial parameters, basic soil abiotic properties and biological responses to agricultural management relative to measures of a natural ecosystem. Using a canonical correlation analysis we found that soil moisture was the most important basic soil property with different responses in Spring and Autumn. In Spring, it had a strongly negative relation with microbial biomass (MB), community level physiological profiling (CLPP) and the Shannon-Weaver index H', while in Autumn it had a strong relation with CLPP. We further show a significant interaction between CLPP and climate for land-use type "orchards". CLPP measured in the autumn season was thus identified as a useful and rapid biological soil health indicator, recommended for application in semiarid and Mediterranean agricultural regions. Apart from obtaining a better understanding of CLPP as the soil indicator, the study concludes that CLPP is well suited to differentiate between soils in different climates, seasons and land use types. The study shows a promising direction for further research on characterizing soil health under a larger variety of conditions.

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Assessing and transferring soil health information in a hilly terrain

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Identifying opportunities to improve digital soil mapping in India: A systematic review

Identifying opportunities to improve digital soil mapping in India: A systematic review

A sensitive soil biological indicator to changes in land-use in regions with Mediterranean climate

The Health of the Remaining Soil

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