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T1 Impact of land use change and afforestation on soil properties in a Mediterranean mountain area of central Spain
A1 Mongil Manso, Jorge
A1 Navarro Hevia, Joaquín
A1 San Martín Fernández, Roberto
K1 Restoration ecology
K1 Afforestation
K1 Repoblación forestal - España
K1 Forests and forestry
K1 Bosques y silvicultura - España
K1 Landscape Ecology
K1 Ecología del paisaje
K1 Ecology
K1 Global environmental change
K1 Cambio ambiental global
K1 Infiltración
K1 Soils
K1 Suelo
K1 Land use
K1 Suelo, utilización del - España
K1 3106 Ciencia Forestal
K1 3106.08 Silvicultura
AB Afforestation can improve hydrological processes, such as infiltration, in basins and, therefore, reduce the impact on human populations of floods, soil erosion, landslides, droughts, and climate variation. The aim of this work was to analyze how afforestation and other changes in land use influence infiltrability and the evolution of soils. Infiltration rates, soil water repellency, and physical and chemical properties of sandy loam soils were measured in four types of land: native holm oak forest, afforested 20-year-old pine forest, shrubs, and grasslands. Non-forest covers are the result of the degradation of native oak forests for centuries, while the pine afforestation in this study took place on a perennial wet mountain pasture (cervunalito). Our results show that soil infiltration rates are much higher in pine afforestation areas (857.67 mm·h−1) than in holm oak forest (660.67 mm·h−1), grasslands (280.00 mm·h−1), or shrubs (271.67 mm·h−1). No statistically significant differences in fertility, organic matter content, bulk density, or effective porosity were found between afforestation areas and other types of cover; however, pine afforestation improved the drainage of the soil, as its infiltration rate was higher than that of the native holm oak forest.
PB MDPI
SN 2073-445X
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61560
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61560
LA eng
NO Land, 2022, Vol. 11, Nº. 7, 1043
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 10-may-2024