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DOI	10.1016/j.catena.2021.105700
	Interrelation between harvester ant activity, soil fertility, and land management in the arid lands of the Negev Desert, Israel
	Mor-Mussery, Amir; Cohen, Shahar; Leu, Stefan
通讯作者	Mor-Mussery, A (corresponding author), Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Fac Agr, Dept Soil & Water Sci, Rehovot, Israel.
来源期刊	CATENA
ISSN	0341-8162
EISSN	1872-6887
出版年	2021
卷号	207
英文摘要	Much of the open lands in arid areas are highly degraded reaching a state grazing or crop yields become low and non-profitable a state grazing or crop yields become low and non-profitable. Implementation of deep tilling and fertilization to enhance yields may cause destructive outcomes for the environment. An alternative approach may be conservation agriculture practices also involving the triangular interrelation among the harvester ant activity, soil fertility, and land management practices to maximize and increase the sustainable agricultural utilization of semi-arid farm land. In order to define this interrelation, a study was carried out at three sites in the northern Negev, Israel between 2014 and 2017. In each site, three different land management practices were carried out (cereal breeding, grazing, and conservation). The findings indicate that in the first three years, the harvester ants' foraging activity increased soil organic matter content by 0.25% per year, followed by an increase of 0.5 % year 1, caused by ants' nesting and foraging. In this state, partial grazing or rainfed crop breeding using a conservative tillage scheme can be carried out until sustainability. Cultivations such as fertilizing with organic matter and land management practices such as savanna trees or local perennials plantations may strengthen the interrelation among the harvester ant activity, soil fertility and biological productivity leading to an increased sustainable agriculture utilization.
英文关键词	Ants-soil fertility-land management Ant nesting area Ant foraging Cultivation/land management regime
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000703268900113
WOS关键词	AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS ; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS ; CROP YIELD ; NESTS ; TILLAGE ; DESERTIFICATION ; PRODUCTIVITY ; VEGETATION ; IMPACT ; LONG
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Soil Science ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向	Geology ; Agriculture ; Water Resources
来源机构	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362806
作者单位	[Mor-Mussery, Amir] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Fac Agr, Dept Soil & Water Sci, Rehovot, Israel; [Cohen, Shahar] Dead Sea & Arava Sci Ctr, IL-86900 Masada, Israel; [Cohen, Shahar; Leu, Stefan] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, IL-8499000 Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mor-Mussery, Amir,Cohen, Shahar,Leu, Stefan. Interrelation between harvester ant activity, soil fertility, and land management in the arid lands of the Negev Desert, Israel[J]. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,2021,207.
APA	Mor-Mussery, Amir,Cohen, Shahar,&Leu, Stefan.(2021).Interrelation between harvester ant activity, soil fertility, and land management in the arid lands of the Negev Desert, Israel.CATENA,207.
MLA	Mor-Mussery, Amir,et al."Interrelation between harvester ant activity, soil fertility, and land management in the arid lands of the Negev Desert, Israel".CATENA 207(2021).