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Impact of long term soil management practices on the fertility andweed flora of an almond orchard

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CUCCI, Giovanna, LACOLLA, Giovanni, CRECCHIO, Carmine, PASCAZIO, Silvia, DE GIORGIO, Donato·2016·TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
DOI 10.3906/tar-1502-87
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Soil management techniques can definitely influence soil quality, and particularly soil organic matter content, biological complexity, structure, and water holding capacity. Tillage may also have a negative effect by increasing erosion and organic matter oxidation processes, which have unavoidable repercussions on fertility. The objective of the current research was to test the effects of five different management techniques applied for 35 years on a rain-fed almond grove (Prunus amygdalus Batsch) in a hot-dry environment on some physicochemical, hydrological, and biological parameters. The following soil management techniques were compared: no-till (NT), with weed control by preemergence herbicides; NT, with chemical weed control by foliar herbicides; NT, with weed control by mowing; tillage, with sowing and field bean green manuring; and conventional tillage. The current survey supplied interesting results, considering the typical soil and climate conditions of the tested area (southern Italy), characterized by high summer temperatures, low rainfall, clay loam soil, and an arable layer of 0.40 m. The most influenced values are those concerning the organic matter due to the supply of biomass resulting from weed mowing or field bean green manuring. The NT system with a single mowing in the spring seems to induce a higher water holding capacity (-15,000 hPa) as compared with the traditionally plowed soil. The biomass incorporation through field bean green manure resulted in a higher available water content (11.82%). All practices favoring an increase in organic matter induced a subsequent increase of microbial biomass content. The number of existing families and species of weed flora was largely influenced by different soil management techniques, as shown by the greater adaptation of grasses to the management practices involving weed control by foliar herbicide or mowing, and of several species associated with the technique involving the application of preemergence herbicides. In general, the almond orchard management involving minimum soil disturbance and the supply of biomass resulting from specially sown cover crops or weed development have shown substantial benefits to the physicochemical, hydrologic, and biologic soil properties.

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  • Conventional tillage management results in higher erosion rates and lower soil organic carbon content than agroecological management.

    “as mentioned before, conventional tillage management results in higher erosion rates and lower soil organic carbon content than agroecological management (Cucci et al., 2016;Durán Zuazo and Rodríguez Pleguezuelo, 2008).”

    From Almond farm profitability under agroecological management in south-eastern Spain: Accounting for externalities and opportunity costs (2020) · cites this paper as Cucci et al., 2016

    The Introduction (p. 2) says tillage can reduce organic carbon through oxidation, and the Results (p. 5) find less organic matter under conventional tillage than under no-till mowing or green manuring, though not less than under every no-till treatment. The paper says tillage may increase erosion (p. 2), but it does not report comparative erosion rates; the claim states that outcome more definitively than the source does. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  1. Olsen SR, Dean LA (1965). Phosphorus. In: Black, CA, editor. Methods of Soil Analysis. Part 2. Madison, WI, USA: American Society of Agronomy, pp. 1044-1045.

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Authors
CUCCI, G., LACOLLA, G., CRECCHIO, C., PASCAZIO, S., & DE GIORGIO, D.
Affiliations
University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
Corresponding author
CUCCI, Giovanna
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Venue
TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Publisher
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK-ULAKBIM) - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS
Published
2016
Volume
40
Pages
194-202
ISSN
  • 1300-011X (ISSN-L)
  • 1303-6173
DOI
10.3906/tar-1502-87
OpenAlex
W2252577173
Cited by
17
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2
FWCI
1.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY (publishedVersion)
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Management and Crop Yield
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant and soil sciences
Keywords
soil management, almond orchards, almond, no-tillage, conventional tillage, weed mowing, pre-emergence herbicides, foliar herbicides, soil organic matter, soil water holding capacity, available water content, soil microbial biomass, weed flora, cover crops, rainfed agriculture, hot-dry environment

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