Agroecological assessment of the effectiveness of different systems of soil protection measures in the reproduction of fertility of slope gray forest soils

Abstract

Abstract The increasing anthropogenic impact on the slopes, the involvement of new slope lands in the production sphere require reliable substantiation of their erosion resistance. The study of the effectiveness of the influence of the contour-band organization of the territory and various doses of fertilizers on the intensity of rain and snowmelt runoff, the composition and properties of flat gray forest soils was the main goal of our study. The object of the study was a plot of gray forest middle loamy soils located on the slopes of the western exposure, in 12 soil sections. The article presents a study of the influence of the contour-band structure of plots using cattle droppings and top dressing on the fertile properties of gray forest soils. We used standard research methods to determine the amount of humus and determine the aggregate properties of the soil, as well as to determine the properties of the solid phase of the soil density. We established the level of impact of the forest belt organized in the study area, while taking into account that we applied top dressing on the study area, which affects the nominal influence of factors that led to an increase in the environmental stability of the studied soils. It is proved that runoff-regulating contour forest belts provide optimization of density and increase in soil porosity, improve water-air regime, activate living organisms of agrobiocenosis, increase the thickness of the humus layer, content and reserves of humus in the soil up to 3,6% and 130,7 t/ha depending on its location on the slope. It is established that the use of fertilizers as top dressing on the studied destroyed soils significantly increases the yield of plant crops, as well as increases their environmental sustainability. The study of slopes from the standpoint of assessing, analyzing, and predicting their erosion resistance is an important direction of soil protection agriculture and in solving the food insecurity in Russia. Due to the intensive reduction of the area of agricultural land, the decrease in soil fertility, the problem of anti-erosion protection of land requires an immediate solution.