Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
DOI | 10.2993/0278-0771-37.2.172 |
A MAIZE EXPERIMENT IN A TRADITIONAL ZUNI AGROECOSYSTEM | |
Muenchrath, Deborah A.1; Sandor, Jonathan A.1,2; Norton, Jay B.3; Homburg, Jeffrey A.4,5 | |
通讯作者 | Sandor, Jonathan A. |
来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
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ISSN | 0278-0771 |
EISSN | 2162-4496 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 37期号:2页码:172-195 |
英文摘要 | Maize has sustained the Zuni and other people in the arid American Southwest for many generations. In the traditional Zuni dryland agricultural system, fields are carefully placed on valley-edge landforms to tap into watershed hydrologic and ecosystem processes. In these geomorphic positions, field soils are managed to receive supplemental water and nutrients for crops by retaining storm runoff transported from adjoining uplands. Crop experiments were conducted to examine the effects of runoff on maize (Zea mays) productivity. Productivity of a Zuni maize cultivar and modern hybrid maize was evaluated with five treatment combinations of water and nutrient input sources in two traditional agricultural areas that have been cultivated for at least 1000 years. During the first year of the two-year experiment (1997-1998), one field received inputs from four runoff events, while the other field, with a larger watershed, received no runoff. In year two, the one remaining field (the other field was disrupted) had inputs from one runoff event. Growing season precipitation was above average for both years of the experiment. All treatments, including those receiving only precipitation, produced grain yields ranging from 852 to 3467 kg ha(-1) for Zuni maize. Grain and biomass productivity tended to be greater in the irrigation-plus-fertilizer control treatment. Productivity differences among treatments are attributed primarily to differences in water inputs rather than nutrient supply. Although the more densely populated hybrid maize out-yielded Zuni maize on a land area basis, Zuni maize produced greater yields per plant and more biomass than did the hybrid maize. |
英文关键词 | maize American Indian agriculture water harvesting runoff agriculture American Southwest |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000405573000002 |
WOS关键词 | NATIVE-AMERICAN AGROECOSYSTEM ; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS ; HILLSLOPE SOILS ; NEW-MEXICO ; CORN ; PHOSPHORUS ; RUNOFF |
WOS类目 | Anthropology ; Biology |
WOS研究方向 | Anthropology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics |
来源机构 | University of Arizona |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/200387 |
作者单位 | 1.Iowa State Univ, Agron Dept, Ames, IA 50011 USA; 2.POB 1994, Corrales, NM 87048 USA; 3.Univ Wyoming, Dept Ecosyst Sci & Management, Laramie, WY 82071 USA; 4.Stat Res Inc, Tucson, AZ USA; 5.Univ Arizona, Sch Anthropol, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Muenchrath, Deborah A.,Sandor, Jonathan A.,Norton, Jay B.,et al. A MAIZE EXPERIMENT IN A TRADITIONAL ZUNI AGROECOSYSTEM[J]. University of Arizona,2017,37(2):172-195. |
APA | Muenchrath, Deborah A.,Sandor, Jonathan A.,Norton, Jay B.,&Homburg, Jeffrey A..(2017).A MAIZE EXPERIMENT IN A TRADITIONAL ZUNI AGROECOSYSTEM.JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY,37(2),172-195. |
MLA | Muenchrath, Deborah A.,et al."A MAIZE EXPERIMENT IN A TRADITIONAL ZUNI AGROECOSYSTEM".JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY 37.2(2017):172-195. |
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