Soil & Water Res., 2023, 18(4):227-235 | DOI: 10.17221/34/2023-SWR

Changes in soil properties due to land reclamation and climate change in South Moravian floodplain forestOriginal Paper

Luboš Sedlák ORCID...1,4*, Soham Basu ORCID...2, Lubica Pospíšilová ORCID...1,4, Alois Prax1, Jiří Kulhavý ORCID...2, Jakub Prudil ORCID...1, Hana Hornová3, Tomáš Vichta ORCID...4
1 Department of Agrochemistry, Soil Science, Microbiology and Plant Nutrition Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
2 Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
3 Department of Hydrology, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
4 Department of Geology and Pedology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Land use changes together with riverbed regulations to avoid the annual floods affect the ecosystem of floodplain forests. Later subsequent revitalization measures, transboundary controlled river management, wetland restoration, and integrated planning were realized to reduce the negative effect of groundwater dropping and other environmental problems. This study aimed to follow the dynamic of groundwater level, soil properties and forest vitality as affected by climate change. The continuous dataset (2019–2022) of soil physical and hydrophysical parameters and tree radial growth parameters were obtained. Groundwater level was evaluated by z-score and the means, and standard deviation values were considered. The monthly assessment of soil and climatic conditions showed that the uneven distribution of rainfall and the increase in temperatures have significantly affected the soil hydrological regime and forest growth. Continual monitoring is necessary to prepare projection models, which can help better understand both the soil and tree growth parameters in the changing environment.

Keywords: Alluvial soils; groundwater level; water regime

Received: April 12, 2023; Revised: July 27, 2023; Accepted: August 22, 2023; Prepublished online: September 13, 2023; Published: October 30, 2023  Show citation

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Sedlák L, Basu S, Pospíšilová L, Prax A, Kulhavý J, Prudil J, et al.. Changes in soil properties due to land reclamation and climate change in South Moravian floodplain forest. Soil & Water Res. 2023;18(4):227-235. doi: 10.17221/34/2023-SWR.
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