Long-term residue management experiment
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Local identifier
- FE1
- Years operational
- 1990—
- Objective
- To evaluate the effects of two residue management systems on a durum wheat monoculture
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Don't know
- Organization
- Council for Agricultural Research and Economicsresearch organisation
- People
Site: FE1
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- FoggiaItaly
- Geographic location
- 41.451758, 15.50098
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil type
- vertisol
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? clay content 42.7 Percent silt content 27.7 Percent - Climatic type
- humid subtropical climate
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units precipitation 550 millimeter
Design period: (1990—)
- Design Type
- Randomized complete block design
- Design description
- Plots measure 240 m2.
- Number of replicates
- 3
- Crop
Crop Years grown durum wheat - Factor
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- crop residue management process Crop residues incorporated using disc harrows to 20cm depth
burning
incorporation
Straw and stubble were chopped into 10 to 15cm lengths and spread back onto the plot before incorporation.
- Measurement
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment soil properties Soil
Related publications
- Castellini, M., Stellacci, A.M., Barca, E. and Iovino, M. (2019), Application of Multivariate Analysis Techniques for Selecting Soil Physical Quality Indicators: A Case Study in Long-Term Field Experiments in Apulia (Southern Italy). Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 83: 707-720. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2018.06.0223 [In English]