Publication
Cover cropping in rainfed olive orchards
| dc.contributor.author | Rodrigues, M.A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Arrobas, Margarida | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-03T14:02:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-03T14:02:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Cover cropping has been advocated as a mean of reducing soil erosion and increasing soil organic matter and functional biodiversity. There are many other good reasons to establish a cover crop in an orchard since it can improve in several ways the physical, chemical and biological properties of a soil. However, herbaceous vegetation competes for resources. In intensivemanaged orchards, without limitation of available water and nutrients, probably this is a minor problem. In rainfed orchards, to balance the potential beneficial effects of cover crops and their strong competition for resources in particular for available water is a great challenge. In this work, we report results from field trials from which we are proposing a model of intervention in rainfed managed orchards consisting of the use of very early maturing self-reseeding annual legumes as a cover crop. These plants are able to enrich the soil with nitrogen and to protect the soil all year round through a green cover of vegetation during autumn-spring and a mulch of dead material during summer. Experimental results also showed that nitrogen nutritional status of the olive trees and olive yields increased in comparison to a plot of natural vegetation fertilized with 60 kg N ha-1 yr-1. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rodrigues, M.A.; Arrobas, Margarida (2017). Cover cropping in rainfed olive orchards. In Annual Congress on Soil Sciences. Madrid | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.4172/2381-8719-C1-014 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10198/14856 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Cover cropping | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Cover cropping in rainfed olive orchards | pt_PT |
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| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Madrid | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 41 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 41 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Annual Congress on Soil Sciences | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Rodrigues | |
| person.familyName | Arrobas | |
| person.givenName | Manuel Ângelo | |
| person.givenName | Margarida | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 371D-DF0D-8D68 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 971C-B85B-1EC0 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5367-1129 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-4652-485X | |
| person.identifier.rid | O-1721-2016 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 35270106800 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 8575728800 | |
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| rcaap.type | conferenceObject | pt_PT |
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