Effect of plough and conservation tillage on soil moisture in ecotone between farming and animal husbandry in north China
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DOI:10.7606/j.issn.1000-7601.2005.06.05
Key Words: soil moisture variation  conservation tillage  ecotone between farming and animal husbandry in north China
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QIN Hong-ling College of Agronomy and BiotechnologyChina Agricultural UniversityBeijing 100094China 
LI Chun-yang College of Agronomy and BiotechnologyChina Agricultural UniversityBeijing 100094China 
GAO Wang-sheng College of Agronomy and BiotechnologyChina Agricultural UniversityBeijing 100094China 
DONG Xiao-bin College of Resources Science and TechnologyBeijing Normal UniversityBeijing100875China 
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Abstract:
      In the arid areas of ecotone between farming and animal husbandry in north China,soil water is crucial to the plant growing and vegetation restoration,so the conservation farming should be introduced.In order to evaluate the effect of different tillage types on soil moisture,the paper analyses the temporal and spatial variations of soil moisture under plough tillage and no-tillage.The soil moisture within 0~80 cm was measured in two years.The results indicated: ① In general,the changes of soil moisture content corresponded to the amount of precipitation during the planting season.In addition,the soil moisture before sowing was also a vital element whatever the tillage type was.② The water storage capacity of no-tillage was more than plough tillage.There were two layers of spatial variations of soil profile moisture within0~80cm: water loss layer within 0~30 cm and water storage layer within3 0~80 cm.③ With SPSS software to simulate the relationship between soil moisture content and soil depth,the correlation was obvious and the equation type was cubic parabola curve.