Interactions of Soil Hydrology, Land Use and Climate Change and their Impact on Soil Quality

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The quality and characteristics of Irish soils are shaped not only by their parent geological material but also by climate and land use. This project has shown that the temperate, perennially-moist climate in Ireland has the effect of maintaining and sustaining Irish soils at elevated soil organic carbon (SOC) levels, high levels of porosity and lower levels of bulk density, than is the case in drier climates for similarly textured soils. We have found that this results in Irish soils having greater hydraulic conductivities than similarly textured soils in drier climates. Grassland is the dominant land cover in Ireland, and this enables Irish soils to be protected and, to some extent, insulated from serious erosion, loss of organic matter and landslides. In many EU countries, soil quality is under threat from a host of natural and anthropogenic activities. These threats include erosion, loss of organic matter (or SOC), compaction, surface sealing (or urbanisation) and landslides. The aims of this project were to attempt to quantify these threats across Ireland.

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Prof. Gerard Kiely
University College Cork

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Publication InformationInteractions of Soil Hydrology, Land Use and Climate Change and their Impact on Soil Quality
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SAFER-Data Display URL https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=3053
Resource KeywordsSoil Threats; Soil Hydrology; Erosion; Loss of Organic Matter; Landslides; Compaction; Surface Sealing.
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code2007-S-SL-1-S1
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project ThemeLand-use, Soils, and Transport
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Project Start Date Monday 1st June 2009 (01-06-2009)
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects Monday 1st June 2009 (01-06-2009)
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects Friday 1st June 2012 (01-06-2012)
Published on SAFERThursday 22nd May 2014 (22-05-2014)
Date of Last EditThursday 26th March 2015 at 15:57:43 (26-03-2015)
Datasets or Files Updated On Thursday 22nd May 2014 at 14:51:22 (22-05-2014)

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Sites were examined all over Ireland. For more detail please consult the data files.

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We found no evidence of widespread soil degradation across the Irish sites that we examined in this project. This is in contrast to our EU neighbours, who suffer widely from the threats that we examined in this project. There is little evidence of widespread erosion or loss of SOC, and that which does occur is at a low rate by international comparison. Similarly, there is little evidence of widespread compaction of the Irish soils that we examined, and the naturally occurring perennial low-intensity rainfall and high levels of SOC, combined with the widespread land cover of grassland, seems to insulate Irish soils from compaction. Surface sealing (or urbanisation) has increased significantly, particularly since 1990, with urbanisation (plus suburbanisation and road infrastructure) now at ~ 2.1% of the total land area. However, the 2.1% is low on the international scale. Most EU countries are at levels twice this or more. Of the 136 landslides documented by the GSI, almost half are in peatlands and most are recent, and are attributed to climate effects, road construction and wind farm development. However, on the international scale Ireland has few landslides.
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Theses
He Yaxin (2010). Estimating soil erosion and sediment yield with GIS, RUSLE and SEDD: A case study in Ireland. National University of Ireland, Galway. MA thesis.
Lewis, C. (2011). Measurement and modelling of soil hydrological properties for use in the distributed rainfall-runoff model GEOtop. University College Cork, PhD thesis.

Peer-reviewed papers published
Dao, L.G., Morrison, L., Kiely, G. and Zhang. C.S., 2012, Spatial distribution of potentially bioavailable metals in surface soils of a contaminated sports ground in Galway, Ireland. Environmental Geochemistry and Health 35(2), 227?238.
Khalil, I., Kiely, G., O?Brien, P. and Müller, C., 2012, Organic carbon stocks in agricultural soils in Ireland using combined empirical and GIS approaches. Geoderma 193?194: 222?235.
Koehler, A.K., Murphy, K., Kiely, G. and Sottocornola, M., 2008, Seasonal variation of DOC concentration and annual loss of DOC from an Atlantic blanket bog in South-western Ireland. Biogeochemistry 95(2?3): 231?242.
Lewis, C., Albertson, J., Xu, X. and Kiely, G., 2011,. Spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity and bulk density along a blanket peatland hillslope. Hydrological Processes 26(10): 1527?1537.
Lewis, C., Albertson, J., Zi, T., Xu, X. and Kiely, G. (2012). How does afforestation affect the hydrology of a blanket peatland? A modelling study. Hydrological Processes doi: 10.1002/hyp.9486
Liu, W., Xu, X. and Kiely, G., 2011, Spatial variability of remotely sensed soil moisture in a temperate-humid grassland catchment. Ecohydrology 5: 668?676.
Xu, X., Kiely, G. and Lewis, C., 2009, Estimation and analysis of soil hydraulic properties through infiltration experiments: Comparison of BEST and DL fitting methods. Soil Use and Management 25: 354?361.
Xu, X., Lewis, C., Liu, W., Albertson, J.D. and Kiely, G., 2012, Analysis of single-ring infiltrometer data: comparison of BEST and Wu methods . Agricultural Water Management, 107, 34?41.
Xu, X., Liu, W. and Kiely, G., 2011, Modeling the change in soil organic carbon of grassland in response to climate change: Effects of measured versus modelled carbon pools for initializing the Rothamsted Carbon model. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment doi:10.1016/j.agee.2010.12.018
Xu, X., Liu, W., Zhang, C. and Kiely, G., 2011, Estimation of soil organic carbon stock and its spatial distribution in the Republic of Ireland. Soil Use and Management doi:10.1111/j.1475-2743.2011.00342.x
Zhang, C.S., Tang, Y., Luo, L. and Xu, W.L., 2009, Outlier identification and visualization for Pb concentrations in urban soils and its implications for identification of potential contaminated land. Environmental Pollution 157: 3083?3090.
Zhang, C., Tang, T., Xu, X. and Kiely, G., 2011, Towards spatial geochemical modeling: Use of geographical weighted regression for mapping soil organic carbon contents in Ireland. Applied Geochemistry 26(7): 397?441.

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