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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-024-5-0024

Hydric Soil Properties of Agroforestry Coffee Plantations in Peru

Štěpán Neubauer1
1 Department of Geology and Soil Science, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Suitable hydric and aerial soil properties of the habitat are very important for its stable and sustainable development and significantly determine the state of current and future natural ecosystems. These are characteristics that can be modelled into a more desirable and favourable state through the appropriate application of management practices and overall management settings. Agroforestry systems combining the aim of balanced production while maintaining favourable microclimatic conditions appear to be a proper way of nature-friendly farming and a suitable adaptation of intensive agriculture to ongoing climate change. The aim of the research was to evaluate the soil properties in different depths of three landuse types in Peru. The research plots were in natural forest stands, pasture areas and agroforestry coffee plantations. Soil samples were collected and subsequently processed in the form of Kopecky physical cylinders for evaluation of hydrostatic soil properties. The evaluated soil hydrolimits were compared with the actual soil moisture state determined by a moisture sensor. Based on the evaluated results, the most favourable soil hydrophysical properties were found in the soil environment of natural forest ecosystems. Soil environments of pasture and agroforestry coffee plantations were comparable according to the mostly unfavourable results of the evaluated properties. Thus, the result of the conducted research clearly demonstrated the influence of landuse type on the state of hydrophysical soil properties. Similarly, the influence of landuse type on the amount of soil carbon content and its positive effect on the state of hydrophysical soil properties has been confirmed.

Keywords: soil environment, physical soil properties, landuse, agroforestry coffee plantation, pasture, forest stand, soil carbon content

pages: 24-32, online: 2025



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