IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/jasjnl/v12y2024i10p338.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Biomass Productivity of Different Winter Cover Crops and Their Effect on Soil Physical Properties

Author

Listed:
  • Willian dos Reis
  • Monica C. Sustakowski
  • Edleusa P. Seidel
  • Maria do C. Lana
  • Renata F. Barabasz
  • Natália C. dos Santos

Abstract

The cultivation of cover crops is a vegetative practice considered an alternative for sustainable soil management, due to its beneficial action in different aspects of soil properties. Thus, the present work aimed to evaluate the effect of cultivation of different species of cover crops on soil density, porosity and diameter of soil aggregates. The experimental design was in randomized blocks, with four replications. The treatments consisted of four species of winter green manure- black oat, forage turnip, forage pea, and common vetch, a consortium of black oat + forage turnip and area kept fallow (control). The following evaluations were performed- dry matter production of cover crops, macroporosity, microporosity, total porosity, soil density, geometric mean diameter and weighted average diameter. The cultivation with forage turnip and the consortium of black oat + forage turnip presented higher dry matter productivity, decreased soil density, increased soil porosity, improved the distribution in relation to macropores and aggregate stability.

Suggested Citation

  • Willian dos Reis & Monica C. Sustakowski & Edleusa P. Seidel & Maria do C. Lana & Renata F. Barabasz & Natália C. dos Santos, 2024. "Biomass Productivity of Different Winter Cover Crops and Their Effect on Soil Physical Properties," Journal of Agricultural Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(10), pages 338-338, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:jasjnl:v:12:y:2024:i:10:p:338
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/download/0/0/43687/45894
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/view/0/43687
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibn:jasjnl:v:12:y:2024:i:10:p:338. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Canadian Center of Science and Education (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.