نوع مقاله : کاربردی

نویسندگان

1 استادیار گروه آب و خاک، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه صنعتی شاهرود

2 استادیار گروه خاکشناسی، دانشگاه بوعلی سینا، همدان، ایران

چکیده

چرخه‌های تر و خشک شدن در خاک دارای اثرهای مثبت و منفی بر پایداری ساختمان خاک می‌باشد. مواد آلی می‌تواند پیامدهای این چرخه‌ها را در خاک تحت تأثیر قرار دهد. این پژوهش با هدف بررسی اثر هم‌زمان چرخه‌های تر و خشک شدن و مواد آلی بر شاخص‌های پایداری ساختمان خاک در روش ارزیابی منحنی مشخصه رطوبتی پر انرژی انجام گرفت. برای این منظور بقایای گلرنگ در سه سطح صفر، 1 و 2 درصد در شش تیمار چرخه‌های تر و خشک شدن شامل صفر، 1، 2، 4، 8 و 10 چرخه در سه تکرار به صورت آزمایش فاکتوریل در قالب طرح کاملاً تصادفی مورد مطالعه قرار گرفت. نتایج نشان داد که افزایش تعداد چرخه‌های تر و خشک شدن از صفر تا 4 چرخه با افزایش حجم منافذ قابل زهکشی و کاهش مکش در نقطه عطف منحنی رطوبتی سبب افزایش شاخص پایداری و نسبت پایداری ساختمان خاک شد. افزایش بیش‌تر تعداد چرخه‌ها پایداری ساختمان و شاخص‌ها مربوطه را کاهش داد. افزایش ماده آلی نیز سبب بهبود ساختمان خاک به ویژه در تیمار 2 درصد بقایا شد و اثر مخرب اعمال 10 چرخه تر و خشک شدن را کاهش داد. شاخص S در تیمار اعمال 4 چرخه حداکثر بود و با افزایش بیش‌تر تعداد چرخه‌ها کاهش یافت. در مجموع می‌توان نتیجه گرفت که وقوع تعداد اندک چرخه‌های تر و خشک شدن باعث بهبود وضعیت ساختمانی خاک و کیفیت فیزیکی خاک می‌شود، اما اعمال چرخه‌های پی در پی می‌تواند آثار مخرب به دنبال داشته باشد.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Investigation the soil structural stability, physical quality (S index) and organic carbon as affected by wetting and drying cycles in the presence of safflower residues

نویسندگان [English]

  • Vajiheh Dorostkar 1
  • Zahra Ganji Norouzi 1
  • Safoora Nahidan 2

1 Assistant Professor of Soil Science, Water and Soil Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology

2 Assistant Professor of Soil Science, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

چکیده [English]

Introduction Conservation and improvement the soil structural stability play a key role in soil management in agro ecosystems especially in arid and semiarid region with high erosion potential. Soil structure is an important soil physical property and has many effects on other soil physical, chemical and biological behaviors such as retention and movement of water, nutrients and pollutions, soil hydraulic and mechanical properties, soil aeration and erosivity. Wetting and drying cycles are one of important environmental factor affecting soil structural stability. Previous studies showed inconsistent results about the positive or negative effects of wetting and drying cycles on soil stability. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of wetting and drying cycles on the soil structural stability in the presence of safflower residues.
Materials and Methods The agricultural soil was collected from the soil surface layer (0–20 cm) of Shahrood in Semnan province and passed through a 4 mm sieve. An experiment was conducted including two treatments i.e. number of wetting and drying cycles (0, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 cycle) and amount of safflower residues (0, 1 and 2 g 100 g-1 soil ). Plant residues were collected from safflower fields and after drying, milled and passed through a 1 mm sieve. Then crop residues were mixed into soil. The wet and dry cycles were applied during 2 month. In wetting periods the soil was kept in filed capacity and in dry periods the soil was kept in electrical oven in 40°C. The soil organic carbon and soil diluted acid carbohydrate concentration were measured at the end of the experiment. The soil structural stability was measured using high energy moisture curve. The soil drainable pores, soil suction at inflection point, stability index, stability ratio and Dexter's S index were calculated.
Results and Discussion The greatest soil organic carbon was observed in control treatment (0 wet and dry cycle) and then it was decreased by increment of cycles in all crop residues levels. These cycles improve the microbial activity during the rewetting process and increase decomposition of crop residues. The soil organic carbon and diluted acid carbohydrate were highest in treatments including 2 g residues 100g-1 in all studied wet and dry cycles. The greatest soil drainable pore volume and the lowest soil suction at inflection point were found in treatment including 4 wet and dry cycles. The results showed that 2 and 4 cycles increased the soil drainable pore volume by 58 and 106 % compared to the control treatment (no applied cycle). More increment of wet and dry cycles decreased the soil drainable pore volume and this factor was declined by 40 % in 10 cycles treatment compared to 4 cycles. It means that wet and dry cycles can improved the soil structure because of rearrangement of soil particles and improvement of soil particle contact points. However, the high number of wet and dry cycles destructed the aggregate and decreased their stability. In addition, the physical protection of soil aggregates from soil organic matters declined through aggregate breakdown. This phenomenon provided fresh organic matter for decomposers and consequently the aggregate stability decreased. Appling only one wet and dry cycle could not significantly improve the stability ratio. This ratio improved considerably when 2 and 4 cycles were used. Following the aggregate breakdown in treatments including more than 4 cycles, the stability ratio decreased in all crop residue levels. Our results showed that the greatest and the lowest volume of coarse and medium pore were observed in 4 and 10 wet and dry cycles treatments but the greatest and the lowest volume of fine pores were observed in 10 and 4 wet and dry cycles treatments. It means that the structural stability improvement during 0-4 cycle changed the pore distribution and made larger pores but the aggregate breakdown with more than 4 cycles changed the pore volume again and increased the portion of finer pores.
Conclusion Our results showed that the low number of these cycles can improve the soil aggregation and aggregate stability but the high number of these cycles has negative effect on aggregate stability. However, the presence of organic matter in soil can decreased the negative effect of wet and dry cycles. These results confirmed the importance of incorporating crop residues in to the soils after crop harvest.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • HEMC method
  • Soil pore distribution
  • S quality index
  • Wet and dry cycles
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