Determining Attribute—Response Relationships of Soils under Different Land Uses: A Case Study

Cristian Vasilică Secu, Dan Cristian Lesenciuc, Ionuț Vasiliniuc (), Gabi Zaldea, Ancuța Nechita and Lulu Cătălin Alexandru
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Cristian Vasilică Secu: Department of Geography, University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iași, 700506 Iași, Romania
Dan Cristian Lesenciuc: Department of Geography, University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iași, 700506 Iași, Romania
Ionuț Vasiliniuc: Department of Geography, University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iași, 700506 Iași, Romania
Gabi Zaldea: Research and Development Station for Viticulture and Winemaking Iasi, 700489 Iași, Romania
Ancuța Nechita: Research and Development Station for Viticulture and Winemaking Iasi, 700489 Iași, Romania
Lulu Cătălin Alexandru: Research and Development Station for Viticulture and Winemaking Iasi, 700489 Iași, Romania

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: Soil researchers are interested in a gaining better understanding of the soil system state by analyzing its properties and their dynamics in time as well as in relation to land use change. Tilled, abandoned, and forest soils were assessed regarding attribute–response relationships for the bulk density (BD), total porosity (TP), volumetric moisture (θv), and penetration resistance (PR) with the use of the interquartile ratio (IRI) integrated into a resilience formula and Shannon entropy indices. The IRI results differentiated soil properties according to agrotechnics (wheel track vs. between wheels) and the state of the system (tilled vs. abandoned vineyard). Entropy (En) indicated a high level of uncertainty for PR. The linear regression applied to the pairs of BD-TP, TP-θv, and PR-θv showed better results for the IRI weight ( IRI weight ) compared to the entropy weight ( En weight ) for the soil between the wheels. The soil of the abandoned vineyard showed a faster tendency toward resilience that was more pronounced in the tilled wheel tracks than in the area between the wheels. The IRI can thus be an alternative to entropy in the evaluation of the response of some soil properties according to their use. When integrated into a resilience formula, the IRI can estimate the dynamics of soil properties for abandoned land compared to reference soil.

Keywords: abandoned land; cultivated vineyards; entropy; forest; resilience; soils (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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