Assessment of the impact of ground-based skidding on soil physical properties: initial effect and medium-term recovery
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14942119.2023.2286394" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14942119.2023.2286394</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14942119.2023.2286394" target="_blank" >10.1080/14942119.2023.2286394</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Assessment of the impact of ground-based skidding on soil physical properties: initial effect and medium-term recovery
Original language description
Soil profile disturbance and compaction can have a medium-term detrimental impact on soil physical properties. We investigated the recovery of physical properties of disturbed soils on four abandoned skid trails in a deciduous mountain forest in northern Iran. The trails ranged from immediately after skidding operations (IAS), through 5 years and 10 years, to 20 years since forest harvesting. For each recovery period, mean values for soil bulk density, total porosity, macroporosity, and rut depth were assessed for three levels of traffic intensity and two levels of slope gradients, as well as within the general harvesting area and compared to those in untrafficked control areas. Over the 20-year recovery period, skid trails with lower traffic intensity on gentle slopes exhibited mean values that were 16.1% (bulk density), and 3.5 cm (rut depth) greater and 9.5% (total porosity) and 32.7% (macroporosity) lower compared to undisturbed areas; on steep trails with higher traffic intensity, values were 43.1% (bulk density), and 13 cm (rut depth) greater and 30.3% (total porosity) and 64.5% (macroporosity) lower, respectively. During this period (over the 20-year recovery period), surface soil compaction showed recovery in the general harvesting area. These results raise serious concerns about medium-term resilience to traffic on forest soils and indicate the necessity to properly retire skid trails to avoid further soil degradation as trails age.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40102 - Forestry
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Forest Engineering
ISSN
1494-2119
e-ISSN
1494-2119
Volume of the periodical
35
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
284-295
UT code for WoS article
001113728400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85179720778