Soil aggregate stablity, organic carbon and plant available nutrient contents (N,P) in soils of prehistoric mounds after abandonment of cultivation
Prehistoric mounds are valuable archeological and nature conservational sites of the Hungarian lowland. However, due to the machinery cultivation most of them were plowed during the 20th century. After setting new legislative frames of their preservation, former cultivated mounds were abandoned a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Debrecen
2015-05-01
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| Series: | Acta Geographica Debrecina: Landscape and Environment Series |
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| Online Access: | http://landscape.geo.klte.hu/pdf/agd/2015/2015v9is1_4.pdf |
| Summary: | Prehistoric mounds are valuable archeological and nature conservational sites of the Hungarian lowland.
However, due to the machinery cultivation most of them were plowed during the 20th century.
After setting new legislative frames of their preservation, former cultivated mounds were abandoned
and spontaneous regeneration processes of vegetation and soil could initiate on the ex lege mounds.
Four mounds situated within the National Park of Hortobágy were investigated after their cultivation
were abandoned, regarding their most important soil properties such as aggregate stability, bulk density,
nitrogenous and phosphorous content, pH, organic carbon content and secondary carbonates. |
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| ISSN: | 1789-4921 1789-7556 |