Impact of secondary succession in abandoned fields on some properties of acidic sandy soils

Lichner, Ľubomír; Iovino, Massimo; Šurda, Peter; Nagy, Viliam; Zvala, Anton; Kollár, Jozef; Pecho, Jozef; Píš, Vladimír; Sepehrnia, Nasrollah; Sándor, Renata

doi:10.2478/johh-2019-0028

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“…The values of ks also decreased at sites PF2 and PF3, but we assume that it was due to an increase in Cox and fine (silt and clay) soil fraction. Increase in Cox and WDPT with time was registered also in our former studies of primary Šurda et al, 2015) and secondary (Lichner et al, 2020b) succession in this region. The SWR -Cox relation can be supported by the fact that SWR is induced by the hydrophobic and amphiphilic components of soil organic matter.…”

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Evaluation of soil properties in variously aged Scots pine plantations established on sandy soil

Šurda

Lichner

Kollár

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Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

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Pines are widely planted for sand dune stabilization and their cultivation results in the changes in physical, chemical, hydro-physical and water repellency properties. Soil properties were evaluated at three Scots pine plantations (PF1, PF2 and PF3) close to Studienka village, Borská nížina lowland (southwestern Slovakia) during hot and dry summer period. The PF1 site is a newly established plantation, the PF2 site is about 30 years old plantation, and the PF3 site is about 100 years old plantation. Here, we estimated the differences in pH, soil organic carbon content, Cox, particle size distribution, PSD, saturated, ks, and unsaturated, k(–2 cm), hydraulic conductivity, water, Sw , and ethanol, Se , sorptivity, water drop penetration time, WDPT, and repellency index, RI. It was found that Cox varies most significantly with plantation age, and relative differences in PSD and pH were lower than the relative difference in Cox. The PF3 site differs the most from the other two, especially in Cox and in the content of sand fraction. It can be attributed to the older age of the plantation, which represents a more advanced stage of succession accompanied by an accumulation of soil organic matter. Relationships between Cox, k(–2 cm), RI, and WDPT and pine forest age were described by appropriate mathematical models. We found a similarity between k(–2 cm) and RI relationships vs. pine forest age (exponential models), and between Cox and WDPT relationships vs. pine forest age (first and second-order polynomial models). The latter similarity can be supported by the fact that soil water repellency is induced by the hydrophobic and amphiphilic components of soil organic matter.

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Evaluation of soil properties in variously aged Scots pine plantations established on sandy soil

Šurda

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Kollár

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“…Pressure head was always set at the value of -2 cm according to Watson and Luxmoore (1986) as limit between gravitational and capillary pores. This value of pressure head is also standardly set when the various mini disk infiltrometers are used to evaluate soil water repellency (e.g., Fér et al, 2020;Lichner et al, 2020;Sándor et al, 2021;Sepehrnia et al, 2020). The close contact between the carefully levelled soil surface and disk was ensured by a 1 mm layer of the same soil, sieved through a 2-mm sieve, as proposed by Kodešová et al (2010Kodešová et al ( , 2011.…”

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Variability of topsoil hydraulic conductivity along the hillslope transects delineated in four areas strongly affected by soil erosion

Nikodem

Kodešová

Fér

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Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

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Soil hydraulic conductivities of topsoils were studied at 5 points of the hillslope transects delineated at 4 geomorphologically diverse areas, where the original soil types (Chernozem, Luvisol and two Cambisols) were due to erosion transformed into different soil unites. Hydraulic conductivities of saturated soils and for a pressure head of –2 cm were measured directly in the field using a Guelph permeameter (K s,GP ) and mini disk tension infiltrometer (K h=– 2 ,MDI ), and in the laboratory using a multistep outflow method (K s,MSO , K h= – 2 ,MSO ). While K s,GP ≈ K s,MSO in the Chernozem and Cambisol (sandy loam) regions, and K s,GP < K s,MSO in the Luvisol and Cambisol (loam) regions. The K s values obtained using different methods showed different trends along the hillslope transects. The K h= – 2 values obtained using different methods showed similar trends along the transects in the Chernozem and Luvisol regions. These trends could be explained by the position within the transects (i.e., different stages of erosion/accumulation processes). No relationships were found between the K h=– 2 values in the Cambisol regions. The pressure head at an inflection point of the a soil-water retention curve was the main parameter, which appeared to associate (negative correlation) with K h=– 2 and K s,MSO in the Chernozem and Luvisol regions.

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“…Together with soil type and substrata, it determines which species will develop after abandonment. Rainfall is also influenced by climate change, and as a direct filter, its influence can be unavoidable [ 69 ]. Other studies on the abiotic limit in secondary succession focus on pH, which declines after 28 years of abandonment in acidic sandy soils [ 69 ].…”

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Impacts of Land-Use Changes on Vegetation and Ecosystem Functioning: Old-Field Secondary Succession

Pérez-Hernández

Gavilán

2021

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The study of ecological succession to determine how plant communities re-assemble after a natural or anthropogenic disturbance has always been an important topic in ecology. The understanding of these processes forms part of the new theories of community assembly and species coexistence, and is attracting attention in a context of expanding human impacts. Specifically, new successional studies provide answers to different mechanisms of community assemblage, and aim to define the importance of deterministic or stochastic processes in the succession dynamic. Biotic limits, which depend directly on biodiversity (i.e., species competition), and abiotic filtering, which depends on the environment, become particularly important when they are exceeded, making the succession process more complicated to reach the previous disturbance stage. Plant functional traits (PFTs) are used in secondary succession studies to establish differences between abandonment stages or to compare types of vegetation or flora, and are more closely related to the functioning of plant communities. Dispersal limitation is a PFT considered an important process from a stochastic point of view because it is related to the establishing of plants. Related to it the soil seed bank plays an important role in secondary succession because it is essential for ecosystem functioning. Soil compounds and microbial community are important variables to take into account when studying any succession stage. Chronosequence is the best way to study the whole process at different time scales. Finally, our objective in this review is to show how past studies and new insights are being incorporated into the basis of classic succession. To further explore this subject we have chosen old-field recovery as an example of how a number of different plant communities, including annual and perennial grasslands and shrublands, play an important role in secondary succession.

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Impact of secondary succession in abandoned fields on some properties of acidic sandy soils

Cited by 11 publications

References 47 publications

Evaluation of soil properties in variously aged Scots pine plantations established on sandy soil

Evaluation of soil properties in variously aged Scots pine plantations established on sandy soil

Variability of topsoil hydraulic conductivity along the hillslope transects delineated in four areas strongly affected by soil erosion

Impacts of Land-Use Changes on Vegetation and Ecosystem Functioning: Old-Field Secondary Succession

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