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“Borders” as a metaphor in implementing large-scale, holistic water sustainability research J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 William L. Hargrove, Josiah M. Heyman
Large-scale holistic water sustainability research is fraught with methodological challenges both in the research enterprise itself and the application of results on the ground (Aeschbach-Hertig and Gleeson 2012; Bierkins and Wada 2019; Hargrove et al. 2013; Megdal et al. 2016). Scientific approaches to realize sustainable water futures in complex systems, such as those described recently by Elias
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Low-overhead dairy grazing: A specific solution to a vexing problem J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jonathan R. Winsten
The dairy sector has been the backbone of many rural communities across the traditional US Dairy Belt (i.e., the states from Maine to Minnesota) since the early twentieth century. The dramatic loss of dairy farms throughout the region over the past 30 years has contributed to an unraveling of the fabric of its rural communities (Spratt et al. 2021). An important driver of this trend has been extreme
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Critical shear stress variability in claypan soils with depth J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 S.E. Kulesza, M.A. Mathis, V.J. Alarcon, G.F. Sassenrath
Soil erosion from land management activities reduces agricultural productivity and contaminates waterways. Understanding erosion processes within agricultural fields is critical to developing alternative management scenarios to better manage soil resources. Claypan soils comprise approximately 5% of the agronomic area in the US Midwest; however, little is understood about the erosion characteristics
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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 79 (2) J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01
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Agriculture intensification as a critical step to enhance sustainable productive systems J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Natalia Belén Robledo, Juan P. Frene, Luis G. Wall
Soil health refers to the soil’s ability to function as a living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans, with optimal biological, chemical, and physical characteristics that allow high crop yields and other essential ecosystem functions (Magdoff and Van Es 2021; USDA NRCS 2020). Soil plays a crucial role in providing several ecosystem services, including food and energy production, primarily
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Eco-hydrological functioning of multi-aged dryland afforestation systems J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 E. Argaman, C. Xu, Z. Xu, G. Zheng, U. Basson, I. Stavi
Continual land degradation processes adversely affect the functioning of dryland ecosystems. In recent decades, extensive afforestation activities have been undertaken in marginal lands of the semiarid northern Negev region of southern Israel to mitigate such degradation processes. However, the long-term impacts of these actions in drylands, subjected to long-term drought episodes, remain unknown.
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Manure injection effects on soil nitrate, carbon mineralization, and POXC dynamics and spatial distribution under corn silage J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 D.R. Hilfiker, R.O. Maguire, R.D. Stewart, G. Ferreira, W.E. Thomason
Manure injection is an alternative manure application method that can alter the spatial distribution of manure relative to surface application. Eight study sites were established to assess how manure injection versus surface broadcasting affects corn ( Zea mays L.) silage growth, soil nutrient dynamics, and spatial distribution. Specifically, corn silage yield, nitrogen (N) uptake, soil nitrate (NO3-N)
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The influence of prairie strips sown in midwestern corn and soybean fields on sediment discharge throughout the year J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 J.A. Stephenson, M. Liebman, J. Niemi, R. Cruse, J. Tyndall, C. Witte, D. James, M. Helmers
Many crop fields in the United States Corn Belt continue to erode at rates in excess of soil regeneration leading to sediment being transported from farms to adjacent surface water and degrading wildlife habitat. To reduce or eliminate sediment loss, vegetative filter strips can be established perpendicular to the hillslope and at the edge-of-field to intercept and filter surface runoff transporting
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Can nitrogen in fall-planted legume cover crops be credited to maize? J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 S. Cabello-Leiva, M.T. Berti, D.W. Franzen, L. Cihacek, T. Peters, D. Samarappuli
Conventional tillage after wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) results in poor winter soil coverage, negatively affecting long-term soil health. Cover crops and no-tillage provide soil coverage, reducing soil erosion, and nitrate (NO3-N) leaching potential. The objective of this study was to evaluate maize ( Zea mays L.) grain yield response and grain quality due to cover crops preceding maize. The experiment
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Soil, soul, spirituality, and stewardship J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Rattan Lal
Soil, the most basic among all natural resources and essential to provisioning of numerous ecosystem services (ESs) that are critical for human well-being and nature conservancy, is prone to degradation because of land misuse and soil mismanagement. The ever-increasing impact of anthropogenic activities has raised environmental concerns since the 1960s (Carson 1962; Peterson 2001; Plumwood 2001; Kureethadam
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Farmers’ participation in incentivized conservation programs: Exploring barriers and opportunities for innovative designs J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 M. Houser, B. Campbell, A. Jacobs, S. Fanok, S.E. Johnson
Farmers must widely adopt conservation practices if the agricultural system is to become more sustainable. In the United States, federal, state, nonprofit, and private efforts focus on encouraging voluntary adoption through incentive programs. Toward increasing the adoption of conservation practices, it is critical to gain a better understanding of farmers’ past experiences with existing voluntary
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Alternatives for improving Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) effectiveness on water resources J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Bárbara Viguera, Róger Madrigal-Ballestero, Eduardo Pacay, Gilmar Navarrete Chacón
Ecosystem services (ES) are the benefits ecosystems provide to society. These services grant the necessary conditions for sustaining life and influence human well-being in all dimensions, including providing basic needs, health, and freedom of choice and action (MEA 2005). ES include all contributions of nature to humans, and these are relative according to the context and the existence of alternatives
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The Nutrient Reduction Index: A minimalist and continuous measure of conservation practice adoption among farmers J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 C.D. Shaffer-Morrison, R.S. Wilson
A Nutrient Reduction Index (NRI) was developed to assist investigators who wish to explore the impacts of interventions, individual difference factors, and farm characteristics on nutrient-focused conservation practices. Comparing the effectiveness of different interventions or understanding the effects of different farm and farmer characteristics can be difficult in the absence of a single and standardized
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Soil macroaggregates: The hotspots driving emission or mitigation of greenhouse gases according to the management system adopted J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 M. Veloso, C. Deveautour, C. Bayer
The association of no-tillage (NT) and legume cover crops has shown positive results to organic carbon (SOC) accumulation in subtropical soils. However, soil dynamics of powerful greenhouse gases (GHG) such as nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) are not fully understood at a microscale under these systems. Thus, our objective was to evaluate net cumulative emissions (NCE, in CO2 equivalent [eq.])
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Understanding farmers’ adoption of conservation tillage in South Dakota: A modified application of the theory of planned behavior J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 E. Avemegah, C.K. May, J.D. Ulrich-Schad, P. Kovács, J.D. Clark
The government and stakeholders in the US agricultural sector promote conservation farming practices, but voluntary adoption is still a challenge among agricultural producers at the farm level. This paper aims to investigate the factors that influence the adoption of conservation tillage (CT) among producers in eastern and central South Dakota. A modified application of the theory of planned behavior
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Infiltration within native prairie vegetative strips embedded in row crop fields across Iowa J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 E.J. Henning, R.K. Kolka, M.J. Helmers
The integration of native prairie vegetative strips into row crop agriculture is a promising conservation strategy that has gained momentum in adoption rates throughout the US Midwest. Previous studies have shown that prairie strip establishment can lead to several positive soil and water quality outcomes, such as reductions in surface runoff and nutrient and sediment exports. However, the impacts
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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 79 (1) J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-01
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Practical guidance for deciding whether to account for soil variability when managing for land health, agricultural production, and climate resilience J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Jeffrey E. Herrick, Jonathan M. Maynard, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Chelsea J. Carey, Shawn W. Salley, Keith Shepherd, Zachary P. Stewart, Skye A. Wills, Feras M. Ziadat
This paper provides practical guidance for determining when it is—and is not—worth considering soil variability when making land management decisions and implementing land restoration initiatives. It presents a two-part framework that can be used by farmers, ranchers, land use planners, and other natural resource decision-makers to determine whether or not it is worth modifying management in different
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Understanding equipment management for planting cover crops J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Drew Kientzy, Ryan Milhollin, Charles Ellis, Ray Massey
Cover crops are planted to protect and enrich soil in annual cropping systems. They are typically planted between periods of normal crop production or can be intercropped in widely spaced rows during the crop growing season. Cover crops benefit society by improving water quality (Abdalla et al. 2019), enhancing biodiversity (Beillouin et al. 2021), sequestering carbon (C) (Poeplau and Don 2015), and
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Reflections for enhancing participatory research and outreach from a multistakeholder soil health program J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Fernanda Souza Krupek, Taylor Ruth, Daren Redfearn, Aaron Hird, Andrea Basche
There is a growing recognition that soil health should be embraced not only as a property to measure and monitor but also as an overarching principle aligned with sustainability goals (Lehmann et al. 2020). This requires integrating different but complementary knowledge, skills, and values shaping the conceptualization and application of soil health among researchers, farmers, policymakers, and conservation
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Comparing the short- and long-term impacts of subsurface drainage installation on soil physical and biological properties J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 A.L. Frankl, K.T. Sherbine, J.S. Strock, F.G. Fernández, A.M. Cates, L.A. Pease
Subsurface drainage is a common practice used to support agricultural production and increase yields in poorly drained soils. Following decades of subsurface drainage installation, agricultural fields often have increased water discharge and nutrient losses. However, few studies have evaluated the changes in soil properties or soil health metrics at different ages of subsurface drainage. In this study
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Patterns and associations between dominant crop productions and water quality in an irrigated watershed J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 S.K. Nouwakpo, D.L. Bjorneberg, C.W. Rogers
Irrigation consumes the largest share of freshwater resources, but is a necessary practice to boost agricultural output to meet increasing global demand for food and fiber. Irrigation not only impacts water quantity but can also degrade water quality. Research efforts have explored various aspects of irrigation efficiency and irrigated crop productivity, but few studies have examined how different
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The good, the bad, the salty: Investigation of native plants for revegetation of salt-impacted soil in the northern Great Plains, United States J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 A.P. Blanchard, S.A. Clay, L.B. Perkins
Salt-impacted soils are formed through anthropogenic or natural causes. In the northern Great Plains region of North America, salts that occur in the soil parent materials move upward through the soil profile due to changing land-use and precipitation regimes. If these salts accumulate in the surface soil layer, they impact the ecological integrity of a site, creating the need for ecological restoration
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Pathways to conservation persistence: Psychosocial drivers of durable grasslands following the Conservation Reserve Program J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 J.C. Barnes, A.A. Dayer, A.R. Gramza, M. Sketch, A.M. Dwyer, R. Iovanna
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), the largest private lands conservation program in the United States, has contributed substantially to the health of soil, water, and wildlife of the grasslands in the Great Plains of North America. However, the program’s limited-term contracts offer no guarantee that the vegetation and associated environmental benefits produced by the program will endure when
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Estimating landowners’ willingness to accept payments for nature-based solutions in eastern North Carolina for flood hazard mitigation using the contingent valuation method J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 M. Hovis, F. Cubbage, G. Smith, A. Zuniga-Teran, R. Varady, T. Shear, S. Chizmar, M. Lupek, M. Baldwin, A. Fox, A. Sand, T. Potter, M. Lovejoy, K. Larick, B. Evans
FloodWise is a pilot program that proposes nature-based solutions (NBS) for flood hazard mitigation (risk reduction) in eastern North Carolina to control stormwater runoff for brief periods of time. The program would provide financial incentives and technical assistance to rural landowners to adopt NBS on their properties. In this study, we assessed landowners’ willingness to accept (WTA) payments
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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 78 (6) J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-01
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Restoring South Asia’s degraded soils and ecosystems for peace and prosperity J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Rattan Lal
South Asia (SA), a subcontinent, is the world’s most densely populated region. It consists of nine countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (figure 1). Myanmar and Tibet are also sometimes included in the SA region but won’t be included in this article. SA is a region with common geography, history, culture, language, and religions. The SA region
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Agriculture as part of the solution to climate change: Incentivizing the adoption of no-till and cover crops J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 David E. Kissel, Julia W. Gaskin, Miguel L. Cabrera, Bert R. Bock, Rattan Lal
The Biden administration has made climate change a top priority. Agriculture is well-positioned to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address other important environmental problems. One of the best ways for producers to provide these environmental services is to eliminate tillage and use cover crops within a good crop rotation system based on the principles of conservation agriculture. There
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Plowing: Dust storms, Conservation Agriculture, and need for a “Soil Health Act” J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Don Reicosky, David Brandt, Randall Reeder, Rattan Lal, David R. Montgomery
The dust storm tragedy on I-55 in central Illinois on May 1, 2023, a reminder of the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, necessitates urgent policy intervention to replace plow tillage with Conservation Agriculture (CA) involving no-tillage with crop biomass mulch, cover cropping, and complex crop rotations. System-based CA has co-benefits including control of soil erosion by wind (dust storm) and water, low
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Gully erosion susceptibility prediction in Mollisols using machine learning models J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Y. Wang, Y. Zhang, H. Chen
In recent years, gully erosion has caused soil loss, land degradation, and a large sediment yield in the Mollisols in northeastern China, threatening agricultural development and national food security. Moreover, the prediction of gully erosion remains a great challenge owing to the difficulty of determining suitable environmental indicators and identifying the best models for predicting gully erosion
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Effects of economic and climatic factors on agricultural water use in arid regions J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 B. McGreal, B. Colby
Throughout the arid American West, agriculture is the dominant consumptive use of water, with farming operations dependent on finite groundwater resources or limited surface flows for necessary irrigation. This study makes use of climatic, economic, and remote-sensed land cover data to model those factors that contribute to farmers’ water use decisions in central Arizona. Growers’ water needs are met
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Individual- and county-level factors associated with farmers’ use of 4R Plus nutrient management practices J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 S. Upadhaya, J.G. Arbuckle, L.A. Schulte
The 4R Plus approach to agricultural nutrient management—ensuring that the “right source” of nutrients is used at the “right rate,” “right time,” in the “right place,” and combined with appropriate in-field and edge-of-field practices—is posited to lead to win-win outcomes for farmers and the environment. While industry and conservation organizations are promoting the approach, farmers have not yet
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Stability and splash erosion characteristics of lateritic red soil aggregates in the South Subtropical Zone of China J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 N. Leng, Y. Deng, J. Huang, J. Li
This study analyzed lateritic red soils developed from sand shale and Quaternary red clay to investigate the relationship between aggregate stability and splash erosion characteristics under different land use modes in the South Subtropical Zone of China. The mean weight diameter (MWD) values of soils were ranked slow wetting (SW) > stirring after prewetting (WS) > fast wetting (FW) by the Le Bissonnais
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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 78 (5) J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-01
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Sediment delivery ratios from forest road networks and harvesting operational features by physiographic region in the southeastern United States J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 C.N. Horton, S.M. Barrett, W.M. Aust, B.S. Hawks, M.C. Bolding
Mechanized forest harvesting and associated access networks can accelerate soil erosion. Forestry best management practices (BMPs) for water quality are used to minimize soil erosion from forest operations and to trap eroded materials on-site before stream entry. Sedimentation provides multiple threats to water quality, but research indicates that BMPs are generally effective at reducing erosion. However
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Smart climate initiatives for United States cropland J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Clayton Ogg
The US Department of Agriculture’s initial climate-smart projects (USDA 2023) will be only as good at reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) as the practices they support. Project summaries choose cover crops, reduced tillage, and nutrient management to reduce GHGs from crop farms and from mixed crop and livestock farms. Challenges occur in the design and implementation of the above GHG reduction cover crop
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Advancing circular nutrient economy to achieve benefits beyond nutrient loss reduction in the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River basin J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Hongxu Zhou, Andrew J. Margenot, Wei Zheng, Chloe B. Wardropper, Roland D. Cusick, Rabin Bhattarai
Since the establishment of the US Hypoxia Task Force (HTF) in 1997, billions of dollars have been invested in Nutrient Reduction Strategy (NRS) implementation in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya River basins (MARB) to reduce the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone size to less than 5,000 km2 (1,930 mi2) by 2035 (USEPA 2022). However, after 25 years of continuous efforts, substantial improvement in water quality
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Salinity and acid sulfate soils of the Vietnam Mekong Delta: Agricultural management and adaptation J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Lois Wright Morton, Nghia K. Nguyen, M. Scott Demyan
One of the largest concentrations of acid sulfate soils in the world is found in the Vietnam Mekong River Delta, a large low-lying river plain scarcely above sea level, covering 1.6 million ha (4.0 million ac; figure 1) (van Mensvoort 1996; Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture 1978; Huu et al. 2022). Acid sulfate soils have high concentrations of aluminum (Al), sulfates (SO42−), and iron (Fe), and when
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Characteristics of the soil macropore and root architecture of alpine meadows during the seasonal freezing-thawing process and their impact on water transport in the Qinghai Lake watershed, northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 X. Hu, L.-B. Jiang, Y.-D. Zhao, X.-Y. Li
Low temperatures, freezing-thawing cycles, and short growing seasons characterize alpine soils. The mattic epipedon, a special diagnostic surface horizon with an intensive root network, is widely distributed in alpine ecosystems. Studies on the soil macropores and roots of the mattic epipedon layer in response to seasonal freezing-thawing processes on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau are lacking. This study
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Long-term drainage water recycling affects soil health and soil properties J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 H. Kaur, K.A. Nelson, G. Singh, R.P. Udawatta
Drainage water recycling (DWR) using drainage and subirrigation (DSI) has increased the resiliency of crop production and improved water quality in the midwestern United States, but the effects on soil properties and soil health parameters have not been determined. This research evaluated (1) reservoir nutrient concentrations of a long-term DWR site over time, (2) the effects of a DWR system on soil
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Trade-off analysis of water conservation and water consumption of typical ecosystems at different climatic scales in the Dongjiang River basin, China J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Y. Luo, K. Zhu, X. Qiu, C. Zang, X. Lu, M. Dai, W. Zhang, X. Gan
Water conservation is one of the most crucial ecosystem service functions and key to evaluating watershed protection and development. Water consumption is an important part of the water cycle and maintains ecosystem stability. The trade-off relationship between water conservation and water consumption in ecosystems at different climatic scales is a significant scientific issue in hydrological studies
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Scaling up agricultural conservation: Predictors of cover crop use across time and space in the US upper Midwest J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 T. Guo, S.T. Marquart-Pyatt, K. Beethem, R. Denny, J. Lai
Scaling up cover crop use will increase crop diversity on agricultural lands and help achieve sustainable production and environmental wellbeing. To increase the total acreage planted to cover crops, more farmers need to use cover crops on a larger proportion of their farms (extent) and for a longer time (longevity), suggesting the importance of spatial and temporal scales of adoption. The adoption
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Understanding barriers to adoption of sustainable nitrogen management practices in California J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 J. Rudnick, S.D.S. Khalsa, M. Lubell, M. Leinfelder-Miles, K. Gould, P.H. Brown
Achieving sustainability in agricultural nitrogen (N) management relies on farmers’ decisions to reduce fertilizer inputs and adopt conservation management practices. Understanding the drivers and barriers to farmers’ adoption of improved N management practices is critical to developing effective management and policy approaches on this intractable challenge. Existing research on farmer behavior has
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Effects of different vegetation restoration types on soil infiltration characteristics in severely eroded subtropical regions of South China J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 J. Peng, X. Xu, H. Wen, S. Ni, J. Wang, C. Cai
Vegetation restoration could cause variations in soil and near-surface properties, altering soil structure directly or indirectly and consequently affecting soil infiltration characteristics. This study is aimed at exploring the variation of soil physicochemical properties and infiltration characteristics under five vegetation restoration types (including restored forest, restored orchard, restored
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Adoption of cover crops in Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay watershed J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 S.W. Duiker, S. Richards
Cover cropping is considered a very cost-effective practice to reduce losses of nitrogen (N) from cropland to surface waters, as well as mobile nutrients in the soil profile prone to being lost to ground water sources. Cover crops are an important component of states’ commitment to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. Since 2016, annual cover crop transect surveys have been performed in Pennsylvania’s
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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 78 (4) J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01
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Agriculture in the North Western Sahara Aquifer System: A miracle in the making? J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Rattan Lal
The Sahara Desert, a vast, seemingly empty land mass covered with sand or sand dunes with sparse, if any, scrub vegetation, covers an area of 9.4 × 106 km2 (3.63 × 106 mi2) (Abotalib et al. 2016). Sahara is a feminine name based on an Arabic word sahrā or “desert.” It extends from Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea Hills in the east, and from Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Sahel Zone
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A vision for integrated, collaborative solutions to critical water and food challenges J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Emile Elias, Teferi Tsegaye, Cathleen Hapeman, Kyle Mankin, Peter Kleinman, Michael H. Cosh, Dannele Peck, Alisa Coffin, David Archer, Joseph Alfieri, Martha Anderson, Claire Baffaut, John M. Baker, Ronald Bingner, David Bjorneberg, Ray B. Bryant, Feng Gao, Suduan Gao, Philip Heilman, Kyle Knipper, William Kustas, April Leytem, Martin Locke, Gregory McCarty, Andrew J. McElrone, Glenn E. Moglen, Daniel
More than 40 leading US agricultural and water scientists developed a water research vision designed to address the most critical water and agricultural challenges in a changing climate to sustain agricultural production and natural systems. Water sustainability can only be realized by balancing the
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Progress in soil erosion research: A European perspective J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 John Boardman, Bob Evans, David Favis-Mortlock, Ian Foster, Karel Vandaele
Many so-called new developments in soil erosion research are in fact “evolutionary” in character—they are built on research foundations established during past decades. We need look no further than Hugh Hammond Bennett’s (1939) Soil Conservation to realize that we stand on the shoulders of giants. However, the significance of concepts such as “connectivity” has changed as perspectives have shifted
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Assessing Soil Vulnerability Index classification with respect to rainfall characteristics J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Q. Phung, A. Thompson, C. Baffaut, L.M. Witthaus, N. Aloysius, T.L. Veith, D.D. Bosch, G. McCarty, S. Lee
The Soil Vulnerability Index (SVI) uses widely available inputs from the SSURGO database to classify cropland into four levels of vulnerability to sediment and nutrient losses: Low, Moderate, Moderately High, and High. Previous work has identified inconsistencies in SVI assessments across the United States, possibly because neither precipitation amount nor intensity were included in the development
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Rice producer enrollment and retention in a USDA regional conservation partnership program in the southern United States J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 T.J. Linder, K.E. Wallen, S.W. Manley, D.C. Osborne
Private lands conservation is critical to maintain available and quality natural resources in agriculture-dominated landscapes. Financial capital and technical assistance incentives are a primary tool to recruit and retain voluntary participation in private lands conservation programs and, subsequently, to induce persistence of innovative conservation practices. Fundamental to program success is to
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Long-term subsoiling and straw return increase soil organic carbon fractions and crop yield J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Z. Liu, L. Nie, M. Zhang, S. Zhang, H. Yang, L. Guo, J. Xia, T. Ning, N. Jiao, Y. Kuzyakov
Conservation tillage has been adopted worldwide as an attractive alternative to conventional tillage. However, suitable conservation tillage for increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) and crop yield simultaneously is still limited. Two conservation tillage methods, subsoiling to the 40 cm depth (ST) and no-tillage (NT), were combined with three straw return treatments (i.e., no return [−0], return of
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Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 L. Shenk, J. Eells, W. Almitra
Current conservation outreach largely focuses on single-day, presentation-heavy events typically addressed to farmers, mostly men. Our project created a multisession learning circle series for a cohort of women landowners that introduced conservation education through storytelling and a more conversation-driven format. Its objective was to build relationships that would empower women landowners to
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Benefits, barriers, and use of cover crops in the western United States: Regional survey results J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 L.A. Golden, M.L. Hubbard, S. Utych, S.M. Newman, S. Hines, J. Thomas, N. Andrews, R.L. Som Castellano, D.P. Collins, C. Sullivan
Cover crops provide known benefits to water, air, and soil quality. The western United States is a large cropping region where data on cover crop use are lacking. In this study, we draw on data from a 2020 survey of western farmers from 13 states and territories to broaden the understanding of current cover crop use and the factors that influence cover crop adoption. We examine cover crop use through
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Microbial respiration gives early indication of soil health improvement following cover crops J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 B.S. Crookston, M.A. Yost, M. Bowman, K. Veum, J.R. Stevens
Farmer participatory research in soil health is important to evaluating soil conservation practices like cover crops on working farms. The Soil Health Partnership (SHP) was a large farmer-led network that conducted a wide-scale assessment of soil health indicators, scores, and crop yields from on-farm research with consistent experimental methods across site-years. The focus of this study was to determine
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Aerial interseeding and planting green to enhance nitrogen capture and cover crop biomass carbon J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 N. Sedghi, R.J. Fox, L. Sherman, C. Gaudlip, R.R. Weil
The US state of Maryland incentivizes farmers to plant cover crops to reduce nitrogen (N) loading to the Chesapeake Bay and to sequester carbon (C). Maryland has a greater percentage of agricultural land in cover crops than any other state, but Maryland farmers typically plant cover crops in October, after harvest and terminate them early in spring, thus severely limiting the cover crop growing time
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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 78 (3) J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-01
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The urgent need for action J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Jean L. Steiner
I first learned about the greenhouse gas effect in the 1970s as an undergraduate student. In graduate school in the 1980s, I learned more about the physics involved and began monitoring the status of the Keeling Curve with increasing concern. While the annual cycle that helps visualize the “breathing” of the global vegetation inspired me, the relentless upward trend in the curve alarmed me. Global
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Climate change impacts on soil, water, and biodiversity conservation J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Jean L. Steiner, Xiaomao Lin, Nancy Cavallaro, Georgia Basso, Gretchen Sassenrath
The effects of the atmosphere on climate, particularly the effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, have been studied and related to Earth’s temperature by physical and climate scientists since the 1800s ([Fourier 1824][1]; [Arrhenius 1896][2]). However, as industrialization rapidly increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, agriculturalists and conservationists were largely unaware of the link
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Sustainable and regenerative agriculture: Tools to address food insecurity and climate change J. Soil Water Conserv. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Rachel E. Schattman, Diane L. Rowland, Sara C. Kelemen
The United States plays an important role in addressing both food insecurity and climate change. Agriculture sits at the nexus of these two issues, which some have called “wicked problems” due to their pernicious effects and the complexity of their causes and their solutions ([Rittel and Webber 1973][1]). While public and policy discussion often concentrate on the role agriculture may play in contributing