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<p>Abandonment of agricultural fields triggers the ecosystem recovery in the process referred to as secondary succession. The objective of this study was to find the impact of secondary succession during 12 years lasting abandonment of agricultural fields with loamy sand and sandy loam soils on soil properties, namely soil organic carbon content, pH, water and ethanol sorptivity, hydraulic conductivity, water drop penetration time (WDPT), and repellency index (RI). The method of space-for-time substitution was used so that the fields abandoned at different times were treated as a homogeneous chronosequence. The studied soils showed a permanent increase in WDPT and a monotonous decrease in pH and water sorptivity with the duration of field abandonment. The dependence of the other characteristics on the duration of field abandonment was not unambiguous. The ethanol sorptivity decreased between 0 and 8 years of field abandonment, and increased between 8 and 12 years, when it copied a similar course of sand content during abandonment. The hydraulic conductivity halved within the first eight years of field abandonment and then increased statistically insignificantly between 8 and 12 years of abandonment. The repellency index decreased statistically insignificantly between 0 and 8 years of abandonment and then increased between 8 and 12 years.</p>
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Abandonment of agricultural fields triggers the ecosystem recovery in the process referred to as secondary succession. The objective of this study was to find the impact of secondary succession during 12 years lasting abandonment of agricultural fields with loamy sand and sandy loam soils on soil properties, namely soil organic carbon content, pH, water and ethanol sorptivity, hydraulic conductivity, water drop penetration time (WDPT), and repellency index (RI). The method of space-for-time substitution was used so that the fields abandoned at different times were treated as a homogeneous chronosequence. The studied soils showed a permanent increase in WDPT and a monotonous decrease in pH and water sorptivity with the duration of field abandonment. The dependence of the other characteristics on the duration of field abandonment was not unambiguous. The ethanol sorptivity decreased between 0 and 8 years of field abandonment, and increased between 8 and 12 years, when it copied a similar course of sand content during abandonment. The hydraulic conductivity halved within the first eight years of field abandonment and then increased statistically insignificantly between 8 and 12 years of abandonment. The repellency index decreased statistically insignificantly between 0 and 8 years of abandonment and then increased between 8 and 12 years.

Impact of duration of land abandonment on soil properties

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

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Abandonment of agricultural fields triggers the ecosystem recovery in the process referred to as secondary succession. The objective of this study was to find...

Impact of duration of land abandonment on soil properties

Published Online: May 14, 2023

Page range: 148 - 155

Received: Jan 27, 2023

Accepted: Mar 31, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2023-0011

Keywords
Field abandonment, Loamy sand soil, Water repellency, Infiltration

© 2023 Ľubomír Lichner et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Impact of duration of land abandonment on soil properties

Published Online: May 14, 2023

Page range: 148 - 155

Received: Jan 27, 2023

Accepted: Mar 31, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2023-0011

KeywordsField abandonment, Loamy sand soil, Water repellency, Infiltration

© 2023 Ľubomír Lichner et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Field abandonment, Loamy sand soil, Water repellency, Infiltration