effect of management practices on soil microstructure and surface microrelief管理措施对土壤微结构和表面微地貌的影响.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Applied and Environmental Soil Science Volume 2012, Article ID 608275, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/608275 Research Article Effect of Management Practices on Soil Microstructure and Surface Microrelief R. Garcia Moreno,1 T. Burykin,2 M. C. Diaz Alvarez,1 and J. W. Crawford2 1 Centre for Studies and Research on Agricultural and Environmental Risk Management (CEIGRAM), School of Agricultural Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s.n., 28040 madrid, Spain 2 Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Australian Technology Park, University of Sydney, Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW 2015, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to R. Garcia Moreno, rosario.garciam@udc.es Received 1 December 2011; Revised 8 March 2012; Accepted 9 March 2012 Academic Editor: Philip White Copyright © 2012 R. Garcia Moreno et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Soil surface roughness (SSR) and porosity were evaluated from soils located in two farms belonging to the Plant Breeding Institute of the University of Sidney. The sites differ in their soil management practices; the first site (PBI) was strip-tilled during early fall (May 2010), and the second site (JBP) was under power harrowed tillage at the end of July 2010. Both sites were sampled in mid- August. At each location, SSR was measured for three 1 m2 subplots using shadow analysis. To evaluate porosity and aggregation, soil samples were scanned using X-ray computed tomography with 5 µm resolution. The results show a strong negative correlation between SSR and porosity, 20.13