Vineyard cover crop management strategies and their effect on soil properties across Europe

作者：Gunther Liebhard, Gema Guzmán, José A. Gómez, Silvia Winter, Johann G. Zaller, Thomas Bauer, Annegret Nicolaï, Daniel Cluzeau, Daniela Popescu, Claudiu Ioan Bunea, Peter Strauß · 发表于：European Journal of Soil Science · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1111/ejss.13573 · 被引用次数：27 · 研究领域：Horticultural and Viticultural Research、Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems、Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Abstract Vineyard soils are often of inherently poor quality with low organic carbon content. Management can improve soil properties and thus soil fertility. In European wine‐growing regions, a broad range of inter‐row management strategies evolved based on specific local site conditions and the varying effects of management intensities on soil, water balance, yield and grape quality. Accordingly, there is a need to investigate the effects of locally common cover crop management strategies and tillage intensity on soil organic carbon content and soil physical parameters. In this study, we investigated the impact of the most common inter‐row management practices in Austria, France, Romania and Spain. In all countries, we compared paired sites. Each site with cover crops and inter‐row management of low intensity was compared with one site with (temporarily) bare soil and high management intensity. All studied sites with cover crops and low management intensity, except those in Spain, had higher organic carbon contents than the paired more intensively managed vineyards. However, the highly water‐limited Spanish vineyards with temporary cover crops had lower organic carbon contents than the paired sites with bare soil. Sites with more organic carbon had better results for bulk density, percolation stability (PS), hydraulic conductivity and available soil water, with soil hydraulic parameters being less pronounced than others. Country comparison of inter‐row weed control systems s...