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Relaciones agua-suelo-vegetación.-Soil fertility dynamics in a semiarid basin: impact of scale level in weighing the effect of the landscape variables

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Ruiz-Navarro, A. ; Barberá, G.G ; Albaladejo, J.
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Universidad de Murcia
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ABSTRACT Arid and semi-arid Mediterranean soils are particularly sensitive to degradation processes, and soil fertility could play important role in restoration/conservation practices. Our objective was to study the relationships between soil and landscape at different scales in order to understand the main drivers of soil fertility on a semiarid catchment. A stratified sampling plan was carried out to take soil and landscape representative variability. Multivariate statistic techniques were used to elucidate the relationship between both. The results showed that soil fertility are positively related with density of vegetation and topographical conditions favourable to soil moisture at small scale, while negatively with topographical factors that contributed erosion dynamic on erodebility lithologies at medium and large scale.
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