PMID- 35640745
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220623
LR  - 20220623
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 839
DP  - 2022 Sep 15
TI  - Agriculture management and seasonal impact on soil properties, water, sediment 
      and chemicals transport in a hazelnut orchard (Croatia).
PG  - 156346
LID - S0048-9697(22)03443-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156346 [doi]
AB  - Soil and water conservation practices are key to agroecosystems sustainability 
      and avoiding diffuse pollution. Here, we compare the impacts of different types 
      of mulch, barley straw (Straw), wooden chips (Chip) and tillage (Till) on 
      vegetation mulch cover (VMC); soil properties, bulk density (BD), mean weight 
      diameter (MWD), water stable aggregates (WSA), soil water content (SWC), soil 
      organic matter (SOM), pH and total phosphorous (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), 
      chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn) and 
      lead (Pb). We also assessed the ponding time (PT), runoff time (RT), runoff, 
      sediment concentration (SC), sediment loss (SL) and chemicals transport (the same 
      studied in soil). A set of rainfall simulation experiments (90 in total) was 
      applied in the different Spring, Summer, and Fall treatments. The results showed 
      that mulch increased VMC in all the seasons, while other properties (BD; MWD, WSA 
      SOM, pH) were not affected, especially in Spring. The biggest impact was observed 
      in Fall, especially in the Till plot, due to the tillage practices applied in 
      Summer. Mulch increased PT, RT and reduced runoff, SL and chemicals transport. 
      Chemical losses were very much associated with SL, and the concentration of P and 
      metals in soil depended on soil Ca and pH. SWC, MWD and runoff were inversely 
      related to PT, RT and SC. Finally, BD, VMC and SOM were highly associated. 
      Overall, tillage practices dramatically impact SL, and diffuse pollution and 
      urgent measures are needed to reverse this. Mulching is excellent and 
      cost-effective to mitigate the impacts of agriculture on land degradation and 
      diffuse pollution.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Dugan, Ivan
AU  - Dugan I
AD  - Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, 
      Croatia.
FAU - Pereira, Paulo
AU  - Pereira P
AD  - Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, LT-08303 
      Vilnius, Lithuania. Electronic address: pereiraub@gmail.com.
FAU - Barcelo, Damia
AU  - Barcelo D
AD  - Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEACSIC), Barcelona, 
      Catalonia, Spain; Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA-CERCA), Girona, 
      Catalonia, Spain.
FAU - Telak, Leon Josip
AU  - Telak LJ
AD  - Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, 
      Croatia.
FAU - Filipovic, Vilim
AU  - Filipovic V
AD  - Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, 
      Croatia.
FAU - Filipovic, Lana
AU  - Filipovic L
AD  - Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, 
      Croatia.
FAU - Kisic, Ivica
AU  - Kisic I
AD  - Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, 
      Croatia.
FAU - Bogunovic, Igor
AU  - Bogunovic I
AD  - Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, 
      Croatia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220528
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Soil)
RN  - 059QF0KO0R (Water)
SB  - IM
MH  - Agriculture/methods
MH  - *Corylus
MH  - Croatia
MH  - Seasons
MH  - *Soil/chemistry
MH  - Water
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Diffuse pollution
OT  - Hydrological response
OT  - Mulching
OT  - Pollutants
OT  - Soil properties
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2022/06/01 06:00
MHDA- 2022/06/24 06:00
CRDT- 2022/05/31 19:24
PHST- 2022/02/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/05/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/05/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/06/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/06/24 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/05/31 19:24 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(22)03443-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156346 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2022 Sep 15;839:156346. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156346. 
      Epub 2022 May 28.