Soil and Water Research, 2018 (vol. 13), issue 3
Multilevel soil degradation analysis focusing on soil erosion as a basis for agrarian landscape optimizationOriginal Paper
Bořivoj ŠARAPATKA, Marek BEDNÁŘ, Patrik NETOPIL
Soil & Water Res., 2018, 13(3):119-128 | DOI: 10.17221/118/2017-SWR 
The article demonstrates a multilevel method of soil degradation analysis on land within South Moravia (Czech Republic (CZ)), in the Hodonín region, which is among the highest producing agricultural regions in CZ. The analysis takes a top-down approach, from a regional scale, through cadastres, to individual blocks of land. In the initial (rough) phase, selection was based on the Soil Degradation Model created for the Czech Republic, which classifies the extent of soil degradation to a cadastral level. Within the chosen region, the Čejkovice cadastre is the most burdened in terms of the combination of various degradation factors, and was therefore...
Sulphate contamination, pH and conductivity of forest soils in two neighbouring mountains with different pollution in Slovakia from 1989 to 2013Original Paper
Rastislav JANÍK, Eduard BUBLINEC, 3, Martin KUBOV, Ján KUKLA, Branislav SCHIEBER
Soil & Water Res., 2018, 13(3):129-139 | DOI: 10.17221/218/2015-SWR
The Štiavnické vrchy Mts. were strongly affected by pollution mostly from an aluminium plant in 1953-1989. This paper compares contamination of soils between Štiavnické vrchy Mts. and the neighbouring little polluted Kremnické vrchy Mts. from results of a 25-year study. After a decrease of emissions in Slovakia at the beginning of the 1990s the sulphate sulphur content, acidity and conductivity of soil water have decreased only on the surface and at a depth of 0.10 m at the study site in the Štiavnické vrchy Mts....
Soil structure after 18 years of long-term different tillage systems and fertilisation in Haplic LuvisolOriginal Paper
Vladimír ŠIMANSKÝ, Martin LUKÁČ
Soil & Water Res., 2018, 13(3):140-149 | DOI: 10.17221/38/2017-SWR
Soil structure is a key determinant of many soil environmental processes and is essential for supporting terrestrial ecosystem productivity. Management of arable soils plays a significant role in forming and maintaining their structure. Between 1994 and 2011, we studied the influence of soil tillage and fertilisation regimes on the stability of soil structure of loamy Haplic Luvisol in a replicated long-term field experiment in the Dolná Malanta locality (Slovakia). Soil samples were repeatedly collected from plots exposed to the following treatments: conventional tillage (CT) and minimum tillage (MT) combined with conventional (NPK) and crop residue-enhanced...
Crop-management factor calculation using weights of spatio-temporal distribution of rainfall erosivityOriginal Paper
Jiří BRYCHTA, Miloslav JANEČEK, Alena WALMSLEY
Soil & Water Res., 2018, 13(3):150-160 | DOI: 10.17221/100/2017-SWR
Inappropriate integration of USLE or RUSLE equations with GIS tools and Remote Sensing (RS) data caused many simplifications and distortions of their original principles. Many methods of C and R factor estimation were developed due to the lack of optimal data for calculations according to original methodology. This paper focuses on crop-management factor evaluation (C) weighted by fully distributed form of rainfall erosivity factor (R) distribution throughout the year. We used high resolution (1-min) data from 31 ombrographic stations (OS) in the Czech Republic (CR) for monthly R map creation. All steps of the relatively time-consuming C calculation...
The influence of ammonia on groundwater quality during wastewater irrigationOriginal Paper
Michal KRIŠKA, Miroslava NĚMCOVÁ, Eva HYÁNKOVÁ
Soil & Water Res., 2018, 13(3):161-169 | DOI: 10.17221/124/2017-SWR
Currently, agriculture in many countries including the Czech Republic is increasingly facing the problem of drought. The lack of precipitation results in a reduced harvest, which implies added irrigation and freshwater requirements. One of the ways to overcome the scarcity of fresh water is to search for alternative sources of irrigation water. The paper deals with a water source, which has not been preferred yet, but theoretically provides a wide application - treated municipal wastewater. Under a pilot plant, several selected soils were tested, placed in 2.0 m high filtration columns. Our observation was focused on ammonia nitrogen and its gradual...
Flood frequency analysis by an event-based rainfall-runoff model in selected catchments of southern PolandOriginal Paper
Dariusz MŁYŃSKI, Andrea PETROSELLI, Andrzej WAŁĘGA
Soil & Water Res., 2018, 13(3):170-176 | DOI: 10.17221/153/2017-SWR
The study evaluated the applicability of Event-Based Approach for Small and Ungauged Basins (EBA4SUB) for calculating annual peak flows with a specific return period (QT) in southern Poland. Data used in the calculations in a form of observation series of annual peak flows were derived from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management in Warsaw and covered a multi-year period 1971-2015. The data were statistically verified for their homogeneity, significance of monotonic trends, outliers and equality of variances. Peak flows with a given return period were estimated by a statistical method...
Sorption of atenolol, sulfamethoxazole and carbamazepine onto soil aggregates from the illuvial horizon of the Haplic Luvisol on loessOriginal Paper
Miroslav FÉR, Radka KODEŠOVÁ, Oksana GOLOVKO, Zuzana SCHMIDTOVÁ, Aleš KLEMENT, Antonín NIKODEM, Martin KOČÁREK, Roman GRABIC
Soil & Water Res., 2018, 13(3):177-183 | DOI: 10.17221/82/2018-SWR
The leakage of pharmaceuticals present in soils towards groundwater is largely controlled by sorption of those compounds in soils. In some soils, soil aggregates are covered by coatings, which may have considerably different composition in comparison to that in an inner part of the aggregates. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sorption of three pharmaceuticals, which were applied in single or all compounds solutions, onto soil samples taken from the Bt horizon of a Haplic Luvisol. Analyses were performed on three types of disturbed soil samples: (1) entire aggregates, (2) aggregates from which coatings were removed, and (3) clay-organic coatings....