Soil moisture changes after land abandonment in the Central Spanish Pyrenees
The European mountainous areas, such as the Pyrenees, have suffered important land use changes since the beginning of the XX century. These changes affect the plant cover recovery process and then the runoff and sediment production. Soil moisture can be a key factor in the evolution of the abandoned...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:b84c051b30d244f3b805f50d901ed77e 2023-05-15T15:25:23+02:00 Soil moisture changes after land abandonment in the Central Spanish Pyrenees M. P. Errea T. Lasanta L. Ortigosa A. Cerdá 2013-05-01 https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.1113 https://doaj.org/article/b84c051b30d244f3b805f50d901ed77e en es eng spa Universidad de La Rioja 0211-6820 1697-9540 doi:10.18172/cig.1113 https://doaj.org/article/b84c051b30d244f3b805f50d901ed77e undefined Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, Vol 27, Iss 0, Pp 47-60 (2013) envir geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2013 fttriple https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.1113 2023-01-22T19:28:53Z The European mountainous areas, such as the Pyrenees, have suffered important land use changes since the beginning of the XX century. These changes affect the plant cover recovery process and then the runoff and sediment production. Soil moisture can be a key factor in the evolution of the abandoned land. It determines the vegetation recovery, runoff generation, sediment detachment and soil development through runoff and infiltration processes. This paper aims to study the influence of land-use and seasonality on soil moisture. Measurements were carried out weekly during 1997 and 1998 by means of the Time Domain Reflectrometry method. The selected land-uses were: Cereal (fertilised and with artica management), Fallow, Meadow, Abandoned (after fertilised cereal and artica management), Burnt (two plots under different post-fire recovery conditions), and the Control plot, which is a dense Scrubland. The results show that land-use is a key factor in the seasonal and spatial variability of soil moisture. The scrubland, meadow and fallow plots showed always a higher water content ( 30 % of soil moisture mean annual value), meanwhile the abandoned land stored less water (23 %). Burnt, artica and cereal plots had intermediate values. Seasonally, summer used to be the driest period as year 1998 confirmed. Nevertheless the year 1997 was extremely wet during summer due to the high rainfall values. Soil moisture was always higher than 10 %, even during the driest periods. Previous weekly rainfall and antecedent soil moisture explain 80 % of the variability. No relationship was found between the soil moisture changes and the variability amongst plots throughout the studied period. Article in Journal/Newspaper artica Unknown Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 27 47 60 |
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The European mountainous areas, such as the Pyrenees, have suffered important land use changes since the beginning of the XX century. These changes affect the plant cover recovery process and then the runoff and sediment production. Soil moisture can be a key factor in the evolution of the abandoned land. It determines the vegetation recovery, runoff generation, sediment detachment and soil development through runoff and infiltration processes. This paper aims to study the influence of land-use and seasonality on soil moisture. Measurements were carried out weekly during 1997 and 1998 by means of the Time Domain Reflectrometry method. The selected land-uses were: Cereal (fertilised and with artica management), Fallow, Meadow, Abandoned (after fertilised cereal and artica management), Burnt (two plots under different post-fire recovery conditions), and the Control plot, which is a dense Scrubland. The results show that land-use is a key factor in the seasonal and spatial variability of soil moisture. The scrubland, meadow and fallow plots showed always a higher water content ( 30 % of soil moisture mean annual value), meanwhile the abandoned land stored less water (23 %). Burnt, artica and cereal plots had intermediate values. Seasonally, summer used to be the driest period as year 1998 confirmed. Nevertheless the year 1997 was extremely wet during summer due to the high rainfall values. Soil moisture was always higher than 10 %, even during the driest periods. Previous weekly rainfall and antecedent soil moisture explain 80 % of the variability. No relationship was found between the soil moisture changes and the variability amongst plots throughout the studied period. |
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Soil moisture changes after land abandonment in the Central Spanish Pyrenees |
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