期刊
HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES
卷 30, 期 15, 页码 2603-2616出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10901
关键词
agriculture expansion; dryland salinity; deep drainage; groundwater recharge; land clearing
资金
- International Research Development Center (IDRC-Canada) [106601-001]
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica ANPCyT [PICT-2014-2790]
- Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research [IAI-CRN 3095]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- ICER [GRANTS:13723703] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- ICER [1128040] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The semiarid Chaco plains present one of the highest rates of forest clearing and agricultural expansion of the world. In other semiarid plains, such massive vegetation replacements initiated a groundwater recharge and salt mobilization process that, after decades, raised regional water tables and salts to the surface, degrading agricultural and natural ecosystems. Indirect evidence suggests that this process (known as dryland salinity) began in the Chaco plains. Multiple approaches (deep soil profiles, geoelectric surveys and monitoring of groundwater salinity, level and isotopic composition) were combined to assess the dryland salinity status in one of the oldest and most active agricultural hotspots of the region, where isolated forest remnants occupy an extremely flat cultivated matrix. Full vadose moisture and chloride profiles from paired agriculture-forest stands (17 profiles, six sites) revealed the following: a generalized onset of deep drainage with cultivation (32 to >87mmyear(-1)), full leaching of native chloride pools (13.7 +/- 2.5kgm(-2)) down to the water table after >40years following clearing and differential groundwater table rises (0.7 to 2m shallower water tables under agriculture than under neighbouring forests). Continuous level monitoring showed abrupt water table rises under annual crops (up to 2.6m in 15days) not seen under forests or pastures. Varying deep drainage rates and groundwater isotopic composition under agricultural plots suggest that these pulses are strongly modulated by crop choices and sequences. In contrast to other dryland salinity-affected areas of the world, forest remnants in the study area (10-20% of the area) are not only surviving the observed hydrological shifts but also sustaining active salty groundwater transpirative discharge, as evidenced by continuous water table records. The overall impact of these forest remnants on lowering neighbouring water tables would be limited by the low hydraulic conductivity of the sediments. As highly cultivated areas of the Chaco evolve to new hydrological conditions of shallower saline water tables, innovative crop rotations that minimize recharge, enhance transpirative discharge and tolerate salinity will be needed. Copyright (c) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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