Soil & Water Res., 2016, 11(2):105-113 | DOI: 10.17221/233/2015-SWR

Using magnetic susceptibility mapping for assessing soil degradation due to water erosionOriginal Paper

Ondřej JAKŠÍK1, Radka KODEŠOVÁ1, Aleš KAPIČKA2, Aleš KLEMENT1, Miroslav FÉR1, Antonín NIKODEM1
1 Department of Soil Science and Soil Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic;
2 Institute of Geophysics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic

This study focused on developing a method for estimating topsoil organic carbon content from measured mass-specific magnetic susceptibility in Chernozems heavily affected by water erosion. The study was performed on a 100 ha area, whereby 202 soil samples were taken. A set of soil samples was divided into 3 subsets: A (32 samples), B (67 samples), and C (103 samples). The mass-specific magnetic susceptibility using low (χlf) and high (χhf) frequency, and organic carbon content were measured at all soil samples. The contents of iron and manganese, extracted with a dithionite-citrate solution (Fed, Mnd) and ammonium oxalate (Feo, Mno), were quantified in A and B samples. Models for predicting organic carbon content from magnetic susceptibilities were designed as follows: (1) subset A was used as the training set for calibration, and subsets B and C were used as the test sets for model validation, either separately (subset B only), or together (merged subsets B and C); (2) merged subsets A and B were used as the training set and subset C was used as the test set. Results showed very close correlations between organic carbon content and all measured soil properties. Obtained models relating organic carbon content to mass-specific magnetic susceptibility successfully predicted soil organic carbon contents.

Keywords: arable land; geomorphologically diverse areas; Chernozem; magnetic susceptibility; soil organic carbon; spatial variability

Published: June 30, 2016  Show citation

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JAKŠÍK O, KODEŠOVÁ R, KAPIČKA A, KLEMENT A, FÉR M, NIKODEM A. Using magnetic susceptibility mapping for assessing soil degradation due to water erosion. Soil & Water Res. 2016;11(2):105-113. doi: 10.17221/233/2015-SWR.
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