Claim · model-written summary
During periods of cold weather, mulching generally increased soil temperature.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume2 - Treatment
- mulchinge4
- Outcome
- soil temperaturee4
- Direction
- increasede4
- Qualifier
- During periods of cold weathere4
- Setting
- Fredericton, New Brunswicke3
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Verbatim
e4“During periods of cold weather, mulching generally increased soil temperature”
e2“under potato production”
e3“Fredericton, New Brunswick”
Title
Zisheng Xing; Pat Toner; Lien Chow; et al. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering 2012. doi:10.1061/(asce)ir.1943-4774.0000459
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Hay mulching increased mean soil moisture content by 5.7 to 9.5% relative to a control in nonirrigated treatments, with 2.25 to 9.0 Mg ha-1 of hay mulch.
- Recommendation The greatest conservation effect on soil water in the study region would be achieved with a hay mulch rate of 5.6 Mg ha-1.
- Intervention effect During periods of warmer weather, mulching reduced maximum soil temperature during daytime.
- Intervention effect During periods of warmer weather, mulching increased minimum soil temperature during nighttime.
- Association Change in soil temperature varied linearly with mulch quantity, although its magnitude was slight.
- Intervention effect Under irrigation, mulching slightly increased soil temperature.
- Association Without irrigation, mulching affected soil temperature both positively and negatively, depending on time of day and quantity of mulch applied.
- Association Soil organic carbon content in the year following mulching increased proportionally with the amount of mulch applied in the nonirrigated treatments.
- Intervention effect Thicker mulching treatments resulted in a greater increase in soil organic matter accumulation.
- Intervention effect Irrigation potentially induced organic matter loss for the lower mulching treatment (2.25 Mg ha-1) and for the control.
- Intervention effect Hay mulching had no significant effect on total potato tuber yield under irrigation.
- Association Tuber yield under nonirrigation increased linearly with the amount of mulch applied.