IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/jasjnl/v4y2012i5p83.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Assessment of Soil Biological Activity in Northern Aspen Parkland Native and Seeded Pasture Using Bait Lamina

Author

Listed:
  • Shawna E. LaRade
  • Edward Bork
  • Walter D. Willms

Abstract

Many native grasslands in the Aspen Parkland of western Canada have been converted to seeded forages. We used bait lamina to test the hypothesis that this change has altered soil biological activity. Bait lamina removal varied with both vegetation type and soil depth (p=0.03). Bait removal was 31% in the shallow (0-5 cm) soil profile, and similar between native (32%) and seeded (30%) grassland. Although bait removal was lower at 5 to 10 cm depth (23%), removal in native grassland was greater (26%) than in adjacent seeded pasture (20%). As soils did not differ in organic matter or carbon between vegetation types, differences in removal are attributed to other unknown factors. Bait removal was positively associated with soil temperature (r ? 0.58) in both vegetation types, but negatively to soil moisture (r ? -0.33). Overall, these results suggest replacement of native grassland with seeded forage has altered soil organism activity, and merits further investigation.

Suggested Citation

  • Shawna E. LaRade & Edward Bork & Walter D. Willms, 2012. "Assessment of Soil Biological Activity in Northern Aspen Parkland Native and Seeded Pasture Using Bait Lamina," Journal of Agricultural Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 4(5), pages 1-83, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:jasjnl:v:4:y:2012:i:5:p:83
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/download/13565/10870
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/view/13565
    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:4:y:2012:i:5:p:83. 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.