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    Upstream 2000 ha is the boundary of the stream water nitrogen and phosphorus saturation concentration threshold in the subtropical agricultural catchment

    Liu J.Liu X.Wang Y.Li Y....
    8页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2021 Elsevier B.V.Catchment underlying surface conditions influence stream water nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations, but it is not known how much this characteristic affects N and P concentrations at different spatial and temporal scales, thus limiting the effectiveness of N and P controls at key spatial and temporal scales. Here, the area, elevation, mean slope gradient, and land use in eight subtropical hydrologically nested catchments were investigated, and the stream water total-N (TN) and total-P (TP) concentrations were observed from 2011 to 2017 to quantify the extent to which the underlying surface conditions of the catchment influenced stream water N and P levels. The stream water TN and TP concentrations were significantly higher in the dry season than in the wet season (2.79 vs. 2.35 mg N L-1 and 0.16 vs. 0.14 mg P L-1), indicating significant seasonal variation in the stream water N and P levels. The underlying surface conditions of the catchment, including area, elevation, mean slope gradient, and land use, were significantly correlated with the stream water N and P concentrations (p < 0.05) and explained 67.1%-90.3% of the total variation in the seasonal stream water N and P concentrations. The catchment area was the greatest determinant of stream water N and P levels, independently explaining 32.2–69.3% of the variation. Interestingly, the N and P concentrations were higher in the 2000 ha upstream catchments and decreased rapidly with increasing catchment area during both wet and dry seasons. This indicates that the saturation threshold for N and P concentrations in subtropical agricultural catchments was within the upstream 2000 ha. Therefore, an upstream catchment area of 2000 ha was likely the optimal spatial scale for implementing pollution control practices in agricultural catchments.

    Watershed landslide evolution combined with topographic factors to delineate the spatio-temporal distribution of sediment sources in central Taiwan

    Lin C.-Y.Wu J.-P.Wu S.-W.Lin J.-Y....
    18页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2021 The AuthorsThis study uses topographical factors to quantitatively describe the uplift amplitude of the plate movement, collects and analyzes the long-term series of rainfall, earthquakes, landslides and debris flows in watersheds from 1993 to 2019, explores the evolution mechanism of landslides, and uses conceptual models to map the areas prone to occurrence of potential debris flows in central Taiwan. Results show that the topographic factors of a watershed can effectively reflect the concavity index (θ) of the crustal uplift, and the spatial distribution of the concavity index in the watershed can be easily estimated. Combining the spatial distribution of concavity index and stream order, a watershed-scale potential debris flow map can be obtained. According to the interpretation rate change of the relationship between the concavity index and the watershed collapse rate, we can understand the occurrence time of landslides and/or debris flows, as well as the sediment transport dynamics of the watershed. The change of the interpretation rate of the concavity index to the collapse rate can be used as a guideline for the establishment of a debris flow warning system.

    Modeling seasonal soil moisture dynamics in gley soils in relation to groundwater table oscillations in eastern Croatia

    Krevh V.Filipovic V.Filipovic L.Matekovic V....
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2021 Elsevier B.V.This study aims to explain complex vadose zone hydrology of fine-textured (gley) agricultural soils influenced by a shallow and dynamic groundwater (GW) levels. The field site was located in the Bi? field (Eastern Croatia), where a detailed soil survey was performed. The simulations included a three-year period (2016–2018) at four locations. Soil hydraulic parameters (SHP) were estimated based on variables determined in the laboratory, while soil water flow was monitored using in-field zero-tension lysimeters. Piezometers were installed and used to monitor daily oscillations of groundwater levels (average depth to GW 2.2 m), while data from nearby Sava River was monitored. Unsaturated flow and water regime assessment was performed using HYDRUS-1D numerical modeling. Additional SHP optimization of van Genuchten-Mualem parameters (α and n) was performed using Shuffled Complex Evolution algorithm (SCE). The autocorrelation analysis was used to detect patterns in the precipitation, GW, and river level time series, while the Mutual Information (MI) was used to estimate the codependence of the processes in unsaturated zone and the main hydrological events. The model successfully (R2 0.72 – 0.94) reproduced measured lysimeters outflows. The outflows from lysimeters were connected to precipitation patterns, transpiration intensity, and soil moisture content influenced by the shallow water table. Comparable MI values obtained for precipitation, GW, and river level suggest a concurrent role of these parameters in the unsaturated flow dynamics. The relationship between upward flux/water storage change into the domain, and transpiration/growth stages, suggests a strong connection between the water fluxes and the root water uptake. Results confirm the importance of GW for the agricultural production due to the major influence on upper soil layer moisture.

    The effect of vineyard reclamation on soil properties and microbial communities in desertified land in Hongsibu, Ningxia

    Zhang L.Gao F.Hao X.Yang C....
    11页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2021Desertified land reclamation for the purposes of viticulture can profoundly affect the properties of the underlying soil and the microbial communities therein. Herein, we assessed the effects of such reclamation of non-productive desert land on the soil microbial communities associated with the resultant vineyards, and to identify key soil properties related to these changes. Soil was collected from natural desert land (DL) and from different reclaimed vineyard types: Cabernet Sauvignon (CS), Merlot (M), Chardonnay (C), and Italian Riesling (IR). High-throughput sequencing was used to assess microbial community diversity and composition in these samples. Significant differences in soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen, available nitrogen, available phosphorus, and pH were detected when comparing soil from DL and reclaimed lands. CS, M, C, and IR soils exhibited higher relative Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Ascomycota abundance, while DL soil exhibited higher relative Acidobacteria and Mortierellomycota abundance. In total, 165 and 55 bacterial and fungal amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) were shared across land use types. Following reclamation, soil bacteria ASVs in CS, M, C, and IR soils rose to 6149, 6483, 10648, and 9821, respectively. Biomarkers of these different land use types were successfully identified via an LDA Effect Size (LEfSe) approach, revealing a correlation between the vineyard soil microorganisms at the genus level by network analysis, while key soil properties including pH, nitrogen, and SOC were found to be associated with these changes in microbial community structural composition following reclamation. As such, our data indicate that viticulture in desertified regions can enhance soil properties and microbial diversity, thereby supporting the soil quality of reclaimed land.

    Effects of spatial variations in rock fragments related to tillage on hydrological processes and sediment transport

    Dai J.Zhang J.Xue K.Yang F....
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2021 Elsevier B.V.Cultivation activities play an important role in shaping the spatial distribution of rock fragments in hilly agricultural landscapes. The spatial variation in rock fragment contents (SVRFC) can exert strong effects on the spatial heterogeneity of soil properties with great implications for hydrological fluxes and soil erosion. However, previous research always assumed that rock fragments were homogenously distributed, but little has been known concerning the SVRFC over the hillslope and its influence on hydrological and erosional processes. In this study, simulated rock fragment contents (RFCs) in soil layers at the upper (0.6 kg kg?1) and lower slope positions (0, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 kg kg?1) were established in combination with artificial rainfall experiments, to investigate the influence of RFC difference between the upper and lower slope positions on hydrological and erosional processes. Results show that the decreasing RFC difference reduced the yield of surface flow (5–100%), but increased yields of subsurface flow (58–792%) and deep percolation (19–130%). Additionally, the decreasing RFC difference reduced the runoff velocity of surface flow and surface erosion rate, but aggravated subsurface erosion. Especially under the 0 kg kg?1 RFC difference, the intense soil loss occurred at the subsurface which may be due to the highly developed preferential flow. With increasing rainfall intensity, great increments in yields of subsurface flow, deep percolation and subsurface sediments were found under the small RFC difference which had small increments in yields of surface flow and surface sediments. These results suggest that the changing SVRFC related to tillage erosion can exert strong influence on behaviors of hydrological and erosional processes. Our study provides a better understanding of the interaction between agricultural cultivation and soil–water loss in hilly agricultural landscapes.

    Coupling and decoupling of soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus stocks following grazing exclusion in temperate grasslands

    Li J.Shangguan Z.Deng L.Wang K....
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Grazing exclusion is considered a crucial measure for improving ecosystem structure and function, including elements such as soil carbon and nutrients. However, little is known about the relationships of soil organic C (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorous (TP) stocks during long-term grazing exclusion. This study examined the SOC, TN, and TP stocks after 0–33 years of grazing exclusion in temperate grasslands on the Loess Plateau, China. The results showed that long-term grazing exclusion significantly increased SOC and TN stocks but declined TP stocks compared to those in grazing grasslands. In addition, grazing exclusion was more favorable for SOC and TN accumulations than TP accretion, and SOC and TN stocks were decoupled from TP stock. Overall, changes in SOC stock were determined by plant productivity, and TN stocks were also driven by soil microbial activities (i.e., N-acquiring enzymes). Nevertheless, plant and microbial characteristics had no effects on TP stocks following grazing exclusion. This study emphasizes the positive effect of grazing exclusion on SOC and TN accumulations, further, it is needed to explore soil phosphorus stabilization mechanisms during grassland restoration after grazing exclusion.

    Opposite responses of soil phosphorus fractions to two dominant species during early succession in subtropical phosphorus-enriched degraded mounatain ecosystems

    Zhao L.Wu X.Huang N.Fu D....
    9页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2021 Elsevier B.V.Understanding the effects of plant species on characteristics of the soil phosphorus (P) distributions in high soil P content areas is particularly important for land recovery and eutrophication control of adjoining freshwater ecosystems. We investigated the plant attributes, soil physicochemical properties, and soil P fractions and sorption characteristics outside and under the canopies of Saccharum rufipilum (SR, a perennial grass) and Pinus yunnanensis (PY, a coniferous tree) in a P-enriched degraded mountain area. The results showed that soil carbon and nitrogen concentrations and root biomasses under the canopies of the two species were higher than outside the canopies. Compared to the area outside the canopy, organic P (Po), labile and intermediate inorganic P (Pi) concentrations increase and decrease under the canopy of SR and PY, respectively, which indicated the positive effects of SR and negative effects of PY on these soil P fractions. The biologically available P index showed that the mean values of this index under the canopies of the two species in the 0–20 cm soil layer were as high as 0.2–0.3, which suggests the importance of biological processes in soil P cycling. The soils under the canopies of the two species had higher soil P sorption index (PSI) values. The main factors that influenced the soil P fractions and PSI were soil nitrogen, iron oxides, and root biomass, which indicated that different plant and sampling effects significantly influenced the soil P fraction distributions and P loss potential primarily by changing the plant root biomass and soil nitrogen and Fe oxides.

    Sea level rise may contribute to the greening of Arctic coastal freshwaters – Implications from the ontogeny of Greiner Lake, Nunavut, Canada

    Kivila E.H.Rautio M.Antoniades D.Rantala M.V....
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2021 Elsevier B.V.Global sea level rise and increased storm activity triggered by climate change pose a serious threat to low-lying Arctic coastal landscapes, which commonly host numerous freshwater lakes. Marine inundation of these ecosystems would result in significant ecological changes. We elucidated effects of changing levels of marine influence to lake ecosystems by exploring the ontogeny of coastal Greiner Lake in Arctic Canada. Using paleolimnological methods on a sediment core, we explored functional assemblage compositions of aquatic biota (diatoms and chironomids), biomarkers (pigments and fatty acids) and geochemistry (stable isotopes and organic matter) throughout the isolation history of the lake. The biological and geological data collectively indicated a paleoenvironmental shift from marine embayment to brackish lagoon in the Late-Holocene and to a freshwater lake ca. 500 BP. We observed that the lake was most productive during a phase of mixed freshwater and marine influence, based on higher chlorophyll-a and β,β-carotene concentrations, omega-3 fatty acids (ω-3) as well as sediment organic content. We suggest that, in addition to reorganization of aquatic communities and altered ecosystem services provided by coastal lakes, coastal freshwaters may become more productive under increasing marine influence caused by climate change. Global sea level rise may thus trigger a new pathway to increasingly greener Arctic.

    Biogeographic patterns of soil microbe communities in the deserts of the Hexi Corridor, northern China

    Duan Y.Wang X.Wang L.Lian J....
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Recent studies show that different microorganisms, especially bacteria and fungi, exhibit contrasting latitudinal, longitudinal, and altitudinal diversity patterns at a global scale, but little is known about biogeographic patterns in desert ecosystems. In this study, we chose a narrow geographic channel, namely the deserts of northern China's Hexi Corridor as the study area. Based on field survey and next-generation sequencing (Illumina MiSeq PE300 Platform), to map soil microbial geographic diversity patterns in this area and further determine the main driving factors responsible for shaping the soil microbial community. The results show that bacteria and eukaryotic diversity increased linearly with increasing longitude and altitude, but decreased with increasing latitude in the Hexi Corridor deserts, whereas archaeal diversity showed little change along these geographic gradients. Some individual phyla within the bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryota communities were not always consistent with collective trends, e.g., for the α-diversity of the ten most dominant bacterial phyla, only six phyla showed a statistically significant increase with altitude. The soil microbial community composition was jointly shaped by geographic distance and environmental variables (regional climatic factors and local edaphic variables). The effect of geographic distance on the soil microbial community composition was slightly stronger than that of the environmental variables. Intra-domain links were stronger than inter-domain links in the soil microbial network of the Hexi Corridor deserts, and these links were mostly positive. Although bacteria formed more connections than both archaea and eukaryotes, removing the archaea resulted in a lower natural connectivity, suggesting that the archaea were the core group for building this desert region's soil microbial co-occurrence network. Taken together, these findings deepen our understanding of regional-scale soil microbial diversity patterns in this desert ecosystem.

    Combined impact of moss crust coverage rates and distribution patterns on wind erosion using beryllium-7 measurements

    Zhang J.Li Y.Yang M.Ma B....
    12页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2021Although biological soil crusts (BSCs) provide considerable control over wind erosion in arid and semiarid regions, understanding of BSCs coverage rates and distribution patterns impacts on wind erosion is remain limited, which further causes poor quantification of BSCs factors in wind erosion prediction models. This study estimated wind erosion affected by moss crust coverage rates and distribution patterns using the weighting approach and beryllium-7 measurements through wind tunnel experiments, and screened factors that significantly influence wind erosion based on landscape metrics and multiple linear regression. Results showed that both moss crust coverage and distribution pattern significantly affected wind erosion and deposition. When moss crust coverage increased from 10% to 80%, average erosion rates in bare soil areas of trays almost all decreased logarithmically from 623.0 to 27.4 g m?2 min?1, while the average deposition rates in moss crust covered areas decreased from ?21.7 to ?16.7 g m?2 min?1. Moss crust located at the middle area of trays (SCS) showed better overall erosion control effects, while moss crust located at downwind of sand (SC) showed better sediment trapping effects compared to other distribution patterns when moss crust coverage was the same. The SCS and SC patterns decreased wind erosion and deposition rates reached up to 81.9% and 38.0%, respectively. Moreover, wind erosion rates when arranged moss crust parallel to the wind direction resulted in significantly higher soil erosion (i.e., by a factor up to 7.3) compared to that of perpendicular to the wind direction. Stepwise regression showed that only wind velocity and moss crust coverage were included in the linear regression equation with a relatively low R2 value (R2 = 0.35), but excluded other landscape metrics. This is indicated the importance of developing composite indices and their associative algorithms should be considered when quantifying spatial distribution impacts of BSCs on wind erosion.