Interannual Variation of Soil Losses Due to Sugar Beet Harvesting in West Europe. Ruysschaert, G., Poesen, J., Verstraeten, G., & Govers, G. 107(4):317–329. ![Interannual Variation of Soil Losses Due to Sugar Beet Harvesting in West Europe [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Soil erosion studies on cropland usually only consider water, wind and tillage erosion. However, significant amounts of soil may also be lost from the field during the harvest of crops such as sugar beet, potato, carrot and chicory root. During the harvest, soil adhering to the crop, loose soil or soil clods and stones are exported from the field together with these crops. This process of soil erosion is called soil losses due to crop harvesting or SLCH. In this study, interannual variability of SLCH for sugar beet in four west European countries, i.e., France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, was investigated for the last decades. Long-term (1978-2000) average SLCH values ranged between 5.2 Mg ha-1 harvest-1 (Germany) and 13.8 Mg ha-1 harvest-1 (France), while the minimum and maximum observed annual average SLCH values were 2.0 and 20.5 Mg ha-1 harvest-1, respectively. A large part of the temporal variability of annual average SLCH for sugar beet within a given country could be explained by the rainfall depth recorded during the harvesting season. However, due to efforts made by farmers and the processing industry SLCH appeared also to decrease over time during the last decade. Furthermore, significant differences in SLCH were found between the countries studied, which could only be partly explained by rainfall depth during the harvesting season. Other determining factors may be differences in soil types, harvesting technique, agronomic practices and crop yield. As SLCH values were derived from soil tare data measured in sugar factories, differences could also be attributed to differences in post-harvesting cleaning, that lowers soil tare but that does not have an effect on the true soil loss at the field plot where sugar beet was harvested. Given that SLCH contributes significantly to overall soil loss on cropland, more research is needed to fully understand the temporal and spatial variability of SLCH.
@article{ruysschaertInterannualVariationSoil2005,
title = {Interannual Variation of Soil Losses Due to Sugar Beet Harvesting in {{West Europe}}},
author = {Ruysschaert, G. and Poesen, J. and Verstraeten, G. and Govers, G.},
date = {2005-05},
journaltitle = {Agriculture, Ecosystems \& Environment},
volume = {107},
pages = {317--329},
issn = {0167-8809},
doi = {10.1016/j.agee.2004.12.005},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j%2eagee%2e2004%2e12%2e005},
abstract = {Soil erosion studies on cropland usually only consider water, wind and tillage erosion. However, significant amounts of soil may also be lost from the field during the harvest of crops such as sugar beet, potato, carrot and chicory root. During the harvest, soil adhering to the crop, loose soil or soil clods and stones are exported from the field together with these crops. This process of soil erosion is called soil losses due to crop harvesting or SLCH. In this study, interannual variability of SLCH for sugar beet in four west European countries, i.e., France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, was investigated for the last decades. Long-term (1978-2000) average SLCH values ranged between 5.2 Mg ha-1 harvest-1 (Germany) and 13.8 Mg ha-1 harvest-1 (France), while the minimum and maximum observed annual average SLCH values were 2.0 and 20.5 Mg ha-1 harvest-1, respectively. A large part of the temporal variability of annual average SLCH for sugar beet within a given country could be explained by the rainfall depth recorded during the harvesting season. However, due to efforts made by farmers and the processing industry SLCH appeared also to decrease over time during the last decade. Furthermore, significant differences in SLCH were found between the countries studied, which could only be partly explained by rainfall depth during the harvesting season. Other determining factors may be differences in soil types, harvesting technique, agronomic practices and crop yield. As SLCH values were derived from soil tare data measured in sugar factories, differences could also be attributed to differences in post-harvesting cleaning, that lowers soil tare but that does not have an effect on the true soil loss at the field plot where sugar beet was harvested. Given that SLCH contributes significantly to overall soil loss on cropland, more research is needed to fully understand the temporal and spatial variability of SLCH.},
keywords = {*imported-from-citeulike-INRMM,~INRMM-MiD:c-13491356,soil-erosion,soil-resources,western-europe},
number = {4}
}
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