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Tillage effects on soil properties & respiration

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 Geophysical Research Abstracts
Vol. 17, EGU2015-2197, 2015
EGU General Assembly 2015
© Author(s) 2014. CC Attribution 3.0 License.

Tillage Effects on Soil Properties & Respiration

Teodor Rusu, Ileana Bogdan, Paula Moraru, Adrian Pop, Bogdan Duda, Horea Cacovean, and Camelia Coste
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania (rusuteodor23@yahoo.com)

Soil tillage systems can be able to influence soil compaction, water dynamics, soil temperature and soil structural
condition. These processes can be expressed as changes of soil microbiological activity, soil respiration and
sustainability of agriculture. Objectives of this study were: 1) to assess the effects of tillage systems (Conventional
System-CS, Minimum Tillage-MT, No-Tillage-NT) on soil compaction, soil temperature, soil moisture and soil
respiration and 2) to establish the relationship that exists in changing soil properties. Three treatments were
installed: CS-plough + disc; MT-paraplow + rotary grape; NT-direct sowing. The study was conducted on an
Argic-Stagnic Faeoziom. The MT and NT applications reduce or completely eliminate the soil mobilization, due
to this, soil is compacted in the first year of application. The degree of compaction is directly related to soil type
and its state of degradation. The state of soil compaction diminished over time, tending toward a specific type of
soil density. Soil moisture was higher in NT and MT at the time of sowing and in the early stages of vegetation
and differences diminished over time. Moisture determinations showed statistically significant differences. The
MT and NT applications reduced the thermal amplitude in the first 15 cm of soil depth and increased the soil
temperature by 0.5-2.20C. The determinations confirm the effect of soil tillage system on soil respiration; the daily
average was lower at NT (315-1914 mmoli m-2s-1) and followed by MT (318-2395 mmoli m-2s-1) and is higher
in the CS (321-2480 mmol m-2s-1). Comparing with CS, all the two conservation tillage measures decreased soil
respiration, with the best effects of no-tillage. An exceeding amount of CO2 produced in the soil and released
into the atmosphere, resulting from aerobic processes of mineralization of organic matter (excessive loosening)
is considered to be not only a way of increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere, but also a loss of long-term soil fertility.

Acknowledgments
This paper was performed under the frame of the Partnership in priority domains - PNII, developed with the
support of MEN-UEFISCDI, project no. PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-0015: Expert System for Risk Monitoring in
Agriculture and Adaptation of Conservative Agricultural Technologies to Climate Change.

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