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Canadian agri-environmental indicators related to land quality: integrating census and biophysical data to estimate soil cover, wind erosion and soil salinity

Huffman, E, Eilers, R.G, Padbury, G, Wall, G, MacDonald, K.B·2000·Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
DOI 10.1016/s0167-8809(00)00185-7
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A Canadian initiative to define and estimate indicators of the relationship between agricultural activities and environmental quality has been under way since 1993. This paper focuses on those indicators related to land quality and highlights the use of GIS to reconfigure land use and climatic data to a soil landscape spatial model in order to apply models of soil degradation. The 1981 and 1991 Census of agriculture data from a cadastral base and climatic indices from iso-contour maps are related to the soil landscapes of Canada to identify trends in the amount of soil cover, the risk of soil erosion by wind and the risk of soil salinization. Results indicate that soil cover has improved by about 11% through the use of conservation tillage and crop residue management and reduced summerfallowing, and that the risk of wind erosion in the prairies has decreased by 7% in the 10 years. The risk of soil salinization has remained constant on 93% of cropland, decreased on 7% and increased on <1%. It appears that the improvements in soil quality protection have occurred despite some shifts to more intensive cropping systems.

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  • Salinity is a constraint in many of the major barley production countries including Australia, Spain, Turkey, Argentina, the USA, and Canada.

    “Salinity is a constraint in many of the major barley production countries including Australia, Spain, Turkey, Argentina, the USA, and Canada (Huffman et al., 2000;Houk et al., 2006;Rengasamy, 2006;Acosta et al., 2011;Gorji et al., 2017;Zaman et al., 2018;Taleisnik and Lavado, 2021).”

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Authors
Huffman, E., Eilers, R. G., Padbury, G., Wall, G., & MacDonald, K. B.
Affiliations
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (CA)
Venue
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2000-10
Volume
81
Issue
2
Pages
113-123
ISSN
0167-8809 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0167-8809(00)00185-7
OpenAlex
W2105242998
Cited by
46
References
11
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 6
FWCI
2.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Management and Crop Yield
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Science and Environmental Management
Keywords
agri-environmental indicators, land quality, soil cover, wind erosion, soil salinization, soil degradation, soil landscapes, agricultural census, conservation tillage, crop residue management, prairie, cropland, intensive agriculture, environmental quality

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