Long-term impact of cover crop and reduced disturbance tillage on soil pore size distribution  and soil water storage

Araya, Samuel N.; Mitchell, Jeffrey P.; Hopmans, Jan W.; Ghezzehei, Teamrat A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-177-2022

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-177-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-177-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Original research article

|

17 Mar 2022

Original research article |

| 17 Mar 2022

Long-term impact of cover crop and reduced disturbance tillage on soil pore size distribution and soil water storage

Samuel N. Araya, Jeffrey P. Mitchell, Jan W. Hopmans, and Teamrat A. Ghezzehei

Data sets

Long-Term Impact of Cover Crop and Reduced Disturbance Tillage on Soil Pore Size Distribution and Soil Water Storage Samuel N. Araya, Jeffrey P. Mitchell, Jan W. Hopmans, and Teamrat A. Ghezzehei https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5974038

Model code and software

Long-Term Impact of Cover Crop and Reduced Disturbance Tillage on Soil Pore Size Distribution and Soil Water Storage Samuel N. Araya, Jeffrey P. Mitchell, Jan W. Hopmans, and Teamrat A. Ghezzehei https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5974038

Short summary

We studied the long-term effects of no-till (NT) and winter cover cropping (CC) practices on soil hydraulic properties. We measured soil water retention and conductivity and also conducted numerical simulations to compare soil water storage abilities under the different systems. Soils under NT and CC practices had improved soil structure. Conservation agriculture practices showed marginal improvement with respect to infiltration rates and water storage.