Tomejil Long-term Tillage Experiment
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To evaluate different tillage methods on weed biodiversity.
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Don't know
- Organization
- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS-CSIC)research organisation
- People
Site: Tomejil
- Location
- TomejilSevilleSpain
- Geographic location
- 37.401944, -5.586111
- Elevation
- 97 Metres
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil description
- The soil is a fine montmorillonitic Chromic Haploxerert.
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? clay content 60 Percent - Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units precipitation 575 millimeter air temperature 18 (11.5 – 22.5) degree Celsius
Design period: (1982—)
- Design Type
- Randomized complete block design
- Design description
- Main plots measure 18 x 15m
- Number of replicates
- 3
- Number of harvests per year
- 1
- Crops
Crop Years grown wheat legumes sunflower - Crop Rotation
- Unnamed
- 1wheatTriticum aestivum and T. durum
- 2sunflower
- 3legumesvetch, Vicia faba or peas, Pisum sativum
- Factor
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- tillage process
no-till
Herbicides applied pre-sowing.minimum tillage (15-20 cm depth)
Applied to crop: All cropsApplication frequency: annually in NovemberApplication method: cultivatorVertical tillage with no soil inversion. Followed by secondary tillage with a vibro-cultivator in January and herbicides pre-sowingconventional tillage (40-45 cm depth)
Applied to crop: All cropsApplication frequency: annually in NovemberApplication method: mouldboard ploughTillage with soil inversion. Followed by secondary tillage with a cultivator in January and a vibro-cultivator pre-sowing at a depth less than 15 cm..
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment weed species richness Not specified soil weed seed bank Not specified soil properties Soil
Related publications
- PARDO, G. et al. Effects of Reduced and Conventional Tillage on Weed Communities: Results of a Long-Term Experiment in Southwestern Spain. Planta Daninha [online]. 2019, v. 37 [Accessed 8 January 2022] , e019201336. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582019370100152 [In English/Spanish/Portuguese]
- Sebastiana Melero, Alfredo Pérez-de-Mora, José Manuel Murillo, Franz Buegger, Kristina Kleinedam, Susanne Kublik, Karl Vanderlinden, Felix Moreno, Michael Schloter, 2011. Denitrification in a vertisol under long-term tillage and no-tillage management in dryland agricultural systems: Key genes and potential rates. Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 47, Issue 3, Pages 221-225 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2010.12.003 [In English]