Influence of Land Use and Land Cover on Hydraulic and Physical Soil Properties at the Cerrado Agricultural Frontier

Dionizio, Emily Ane; Costa, Marcos Heil

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“…The amount of water available for consumptive use by irrigation is directly linked to the streamflow of rivers, which depends on precipitation rates, duration of the wet season, maintenance of natural vegetation cover, and recharge rates of the aquifer. Although the changes in land cover do not significantly affect soil water infiltration in Western Bahia [ 40 ], it has been demonstrated elsewhere in the Cerrado that such changes may affect the water cycle [ 72 ]. Further studies specific to this region are needed.…”

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“…The soils of Western Bahia have developed on the geological formation of the Urucuia Group (Upper Cretaceous), which is dominated by quartz sandstone cemented by siliceous materials. The soils are sandy (clay content below 40%, with sand fraction between 70% and 90%) [ 40 ], deep, well drained, acidic (with high aluminum and Fe-oxide content), and of low fertility [ 44 ]. According to the Brazilian Soil Classification System, the predominant soils classes are Latossolos and Neossolos ( Fig 1 ), which are strongly associated with the typical vegetation of the Cerrado [ 34 , 45 ].…”

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“…The cropland area in this region expanded from virtually zero in 1985 to 690 thousand hectares of soybeans in 2000 to 1.6 million hectares in 2018, reaching production records of 6 million tons of soybeans and 1.245 million tons of cotton produced in the 2017/2018 harvest [36]. This rapid advance of agribusiness in Western Bahia exposed the natural resources to intensive anthropic pressure, raising concerns about the effects of land use change on regional water availability, landscape fragmentation, soil physical properties, and carbon storage [16,[37][38][39][40]. Previous studies have shown that suppression of native vegetation throughout the Cerrado domain caused nearly 200 Tg-C to be emitted between 2003 and 2008 (40 Tg-C yr −1 ) from areas converted to pasture [41] and an average of 179 Tg-C between 2003 and 2013 from areas converted to cropland (18 Tg-C yr −1 ) [42].…”

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Carbon stocks and dynamics of different land uses on the Cerrado agricultural frontier

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The largest and most dynamic agricultural frontier in Brazil is known as MATOPIBA, an area that covers part of the Cerrado biome. Within this region, Western Bahia stands out as a large producer of soy and cotton. There are no studies that quantify carbon stocks for different land uses and land cover types in Western Bahia, which hinders comprehension of the role of agricultural expansion in carbon dynamics and the development of sustainable agriculture policies. Here, we evaluate how the land use changes in this region have affected the carbon balance in the aboveground biomass (AGB), belowground biomass (BGB), and soil reservoirs. We collected soil samples for areas with different land uses and land cover types to estimate soil carbon stocks (SCS) and combined remote sensing results and modeling techniques to develop a historical reconstruction of spatial patterns of SCS, AGB, and BGB during the period 1990–2018. The replacement of areas from the forest formations class with pasture and rainfed agriculture reduced the 100 cm depth SCS (SCS100) by 37.3% (p = 0.031) and 30.3% (p = 0.053), respectively. By contrast, the conversion of pasture and rainfed agriculture to irrigated agriculture increased SCS100 by 34% (p = 0.034) and 26.5% (p = 0.022), respectively. Spatial changes in historical carbon stocks are strongly associated with land use changes that occurred between 1990 and 2018. We estimated a non-significant loss of 61.9 Tg-C (p = 0.726) from the total carbon stocks (calculated as the sum of AGB, BGB, and SCS) of which 80% of the losses came from soil stocks, 11% from BGB, and 8% from AGB. These findings reveal the need to monitor carbon stocks in sandy soils to reduce the uncertainties of estimates and support the development of effective sustainable agriculture policies. The best alternatives for reducing carbon losses in the Cerrado are to maintain natural forest cover and to recover soils through sustainable soil management, especially in pasturelands where soil carbon stocks are lowest.

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“…For example, in agriculture, the hydraulic conductivity was found to be 4.9 cm/h, 4.0 cm/h and 3.5 cm/h for 0-20, 20-40 and 40-60 depths respectively. For rangeland, the trends of The results from a study conducted by [39] on the influence of land use and land cover on hydraulic and physical soil properties at the Cerrado Agricultural Frontier showed that the hydraulic conductivity in forest was 14.47 cm/h while in irrigated croplands, rainfed croplands and pasture, the hydraulic conductivity was 3.01 cm/h, 6.22 cm/h and 5.01 cm/h, respectively. A study done within the River Njoro watershed in Kenya showed similar results, where hydraulic conductivity was higher in forest (104 cm/h) than in grassland (69 cm/h) and in agriculture land (77 cm/h) [40].…”

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Analysis of Land Use Change and Its Impact on the Hydrology of Kakia and Esamburmbur Sub-Watersheds of Narok County, Kenya

Mireille

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Narok town is one of the places in Kenya which experience catastrophic floods. Many lives have been lost and valuable property destroyed in recent years. Change in land use/land cover upstream of the town area may have contributed significantly to the severity and frequency of flooding events. Runoff, which contributes to floods in Narok town, comes from Kakia and Esamburmbur sub-catchments of Enkare Narok watershed. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of land use/land cover change on the hydrology of Kakia and Esamburmbur sub-watersheds. To detect land use/land cover change, Landsat satellite images from 1985 to 2019 were used. Using supervised classification in Erdas Imagine 2014, land use of the study area was classified into four classes, i.e., forest, rangeland, agriculture and built-up areas. Five land use maps (1985, 1995, 2000, 2010, and 2019) were developed and used to perform land use change analysis. There was rampart conversion of forest to other land uses. Between 1985 and 2019, the forest and rangeland declined by 40.3% and 25.6% of the study area, respectively, while agriculture and built-up areas increased by 55.2% and 10.6% of the study area respectively. Analysis of soil hydrological properties indicate that the infiltration rate and soil hydraulic conductivity were greatest in forest than in other land use types. The basic infiltration rate in forest land was 89.1 cm/h while in rangeland and agricultural land, it was 7.9 cm/h and 15 cm/h respectively. At the top-soil layer, average soil hydraulic conductivity under forest was 46.3 cm/h, under rangeland, 2.6 cm/h and under agriculture, 4.9 cm/h. The low hydraulic conductivity in rangeland and agriculture was attributed to compaction by farm machinery (tractors) and livestock respectively. An interesting observation was made in rangelands where the top layer (0–20 cm) had a higher bulk density and a lower hydraulic conductivity as compared to the next deeper layer (20–40 cm). This was attributed to the combined impact of compaction and localised pressure by hooves of livestock which only have an impact on the top layer. The findings of this study show that land use has a major impact on soil hydrological properties and imply that the observed land use changes negatively affected the soil hydrological properties of the watershed. The decreased infiltration in the increasing areas of degraded land (mainly agriculture and rangeland) and increase in built-up area in Narok town are the possible causes of the increased flood risk in Narok town. It is recommended that flood risk management strategies in Narok town include watershed management to enhance water infiltration.

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“…These equations were obtained via regression curves from data collected on 34 plot areas in the USA with a wide range of textures, slopes, land use and land cover. The areas from the WEPP model possess different geological and climatological conditions from the soils in the Brazilian Semiarid Region; this is why local studies should be carried out, since empirical equations frequently have strong local character (Ghorbani-Dashtaki et al, 2016;Dionizio and Costa, 2019).…”

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Physically-based model for gully simulation: application to the Brazilian Semiarid Region

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Araújo²,

Teixeira³

2019

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Abstract. Gullies are one of the most relevant erosion processes, connected to land degradation and desertification, in special in arid and semiarid regions. Despite its role, gully erosion is neglected by many models and researches. This study presents a physically-based model for small permanent gullies, typical in the Brazilian Semiarid Region. The model consists of coupling two previous models, those by Foster and Lane (1983) and Sidorchuk (1999). As both models require input data of peak discharge and duration, different rain intensities were tested. The rain intensity that suited gully erosion modelling best was the 30-minute intensity. The Foster and Lane model supplied a better response for smaller areas, where bed-channel erosion is more pronounced. The Sidorchuk model presented a better performance in larger sections, where wall erosion becomes more prominent. The experimental area is located in the semiarid State of Ceará, Brazil, in which the land use is characterised by agriculture and livestock. We measured and modelled three gullies ageing almost six decades. The threshold between the prevailing domains of each process (channel bed or wall erosion) is based on the cross-section area; and it is intrinsically connected to wall erosion: for the case study, the threshold area was approximately 2 m2. The final model, hereby called FL-SM (Foster & Lane and Sidorchuk Model) performed very well, with Nash–Sutcliffe coefficient of 0.846.

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Influence of Land Use and Land Cover on Hydraulic and Physical Soil Properties at the Cerrado Agricultural Frontier

Cited by 37 publications

References 40 publications

Carbon stocks and dynamics of different land uses on the Cerrado agricultural frontier

Carbon stocks and dynamics of different land uses on the Cerrado agricultural frontier

Analysis of Land Use Change and Its Impact on the Hydrology of Kakia and Esamburmbur Sub-Watersheds of Narok County, Kenya

Physically-based model for gully simulation: application to the Brazilian Semiarid Region

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