OPENAIRE OpenAire Datacite Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) UnpayWall SLU publication database Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DOAJ NIBIO Brage Crossref Bern Open Repository and Information System (BORIS) Padua research Archive (Archivio istituzionale della ricerca - Università di Padova) Lirias http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/223/pdf https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/27668/1/piccoli-i-et-al-220502.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/165197/1/Opportunities_for_Mitigating_Soil_Compaction_in_Europe_Case.pdf https://www.research.unipd.it/bitstream/11577/3462067/1/land-11-00223-v2.pdf https://rau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/16542/1/land-11-00223-v2.pdf https://doi.org/11250/3007222 Land Open Access 2022-02-03 2022-11-24 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Soil compaction (SC) is a major threat for agriculture in Europe that affects many ecosystem functions, such as water and air circulation in soils, root growth, and crop production. Our objective was to present the results from five short-term (&lt;5 years) case studies located along the north–south and east–west gradients and conducted within the SoilCare project using soil-improving cropping systems (SICSs) for mitigating topsoil and subsoil SC. Two study sites (SSs) focused on natural subsoil (˃25 cm) compaction using subsoiling tillage treatments to depths of 35 cm (Sweden) and 60 cm (Romania). The other SSs addressed both topsoil and subsoil SC (˃25 cm, Norway and United Kingdom; ˃30 cm, Italy) using deep-rooted bio-drilling crops and different tillage types or a combination of both. Each SS evaluated the effectiveness of the SICSs by measuring the soil physical properties, and we calculated SC indices. The SICSs showed promising results—for example, alfalfa in Norway showed good potential for alleviating SC (the subsoil density decreased from 1.69 to 1.45 g cm−1) and subsoiling at the Swedish SS improved root penetration into the subsoil by about 10 cm—but the effects of SICSs on yields were generally small. These case studies also reflected difficulties in implementing SICSs, some of which are under development, and we discuss methodological issues for measuring their effectiveness. There is a need for refining these SICSs and for evaluating their longer-term effect under a wider range of pedoclimatic conditions.</p></article> bio-drilling crops ROOT-GROWTH Environmental Studies subsoiling PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES Soil Science Environmental Sciences & Ecology straw incorporation 910 CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE 3301 Architecture soil penetration resistance 4104 Environmental management degree of compaction; soil penetration resistance; relative normalised density; air-filled porosity; tillage; straw incorporation; bio-drilling crops; subsoiling; crop productivity relative normalised density GAS-TRANSPORT 0502 Environmental Science and Management S Agriculture (General) 910 Geography & travel PENETRATION RESISTANCE 550 Earth sciences & geology crop productivity 2. Zero hunger Science & Technology CLIMATE-CHANGE S degree of compaction 3304 Urban and regional planning Agriculture 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences DEEP-TILLAGE 15. Life on land 6. Clean water Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use 13. Climate action tillage 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries CLAY LOAM SOIL RISK-ASSESSMENT SUBSOIL COMPACTION Life Sciences & Biomedicine air-filled porosity Ilaria Piccoli, Till Seehusen, Jenny Bussell, Olga Vizitu, Irina Calciu, Antonio Berti, Gunnar Börjesson, Holger Kirchmann, Thomas Kätterer, Felice Sartori, Chris Stoate, Felicity Crotty, Ioanna S. Panagea, Abdallah Alaoui, Martin A. Bolinder, 2022-02-02 journalpaper <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Soil compaction (SC) is a major threat for agriculture in Europe that affects many ecosystem functions, such as water and air circulation in soils, root growth, and crop production. Our objective was to present the results from five short-term (&lt;5 years) case studies located along the north–south and east–west gradients and conducted within the SoilCare project using soil-improving cropping systems (SICSs) for mitigating topsoil and subsoil SC. Two study sites (SSs) focused on natural subsoil (˃25 cm) compaction using subsoiling tillage treatments to depths of 35 cm (Sweden) and 60 cm (Romania). The other SSs addressed both topsoil and subsoil SC (˃25 cm, Norway and United Kingdom; ˃30 cm, Italy) using deep-rooted bio-drilling crops and different tillage types or a combination of both. Each SS evaluated the effectiveness of the SICSs by measuring the soil physical properties, and we calculated SC indices. The SICSs showed promising results—for example, alfalfa in Norway showed good potential for alleviating SC (the subsoil density decreased from 1.69 to 1.45 g cm−1) and subsoiling at the Swedish SS improved root penetration into the subsoil by about 10 cm—but the effects of SICSs on yields were generally small. These case studies also reflected difficulties in implementing SICSs, some of which are under development, and we discuss methodological issues for measuring their effectiveness. There is a need for refining these SICSs and for evaluating their longer-term effect under a wider range of pedoclimatic conditions.</p></article> Opportunities for Mitigating Soil Compaction in Europe—Case Studies from the SoilCare Project Using Soil-Improving Cropping Systems 11250/3007222 677407