Claim · model-written summary
Compaction treatments increased soil bulk density relative to no vehicular traffic.
- Taxon
- sugarcanee4
- Treatment
- compaction treatmentse2
- Outcome
- soil bulk densitye2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Comparator
- no vehicular traffic (control)e1
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Verbatim
e1“Three compaction treatments were imposed, including no vehicular traffic (control)”
e2“Results show reduced water infiltration rates, increased soil bulk density, increased penetration resistance, and reduced root distribution in all the compaction treatments”
e4“sugarcane was planted (2002) at 1.8-m row spacing”
Title
R. van Antwerpen; P. W. L. Lyne; Eddie Meyer; et al. Agritrop (Cirad) 2007
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Compaction treatments reduced water infiltration rates relative to no vehicular traffic.
- Intervention effect Compaction treatments increased penetration resistance relative to no vehicular traffic.
- Intervention effect Compaction treatments reduced sugarcane root distribution relative to no vehicular traffic.
- Association Soils with higher water contents were more susceptible to degradation.
- Observation The authors conclude that even a virgin soil in very good condition will be degraded over a few years to the physical threshold limits.