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| Web URL(s): | https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2023am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/148615
Last checked: 12/04/2023 |
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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Abstract or Summary only |
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| Author(s): | Barnes, Miria;
Hopkins, Bryan G. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Barnes: Presenting Author and PWS, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; Hopkins: Brighman Young University, PWS, Provo, UT |
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| Title: | Soil health in American sports fields and golf courses |
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| Section: | Turf management and ecology poster (includes student competition)
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| Meeting Info.: | St. Louis, Missouri: October 29-November 1, 2023 |
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| Source: | ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting. 2023, p. 148615. |
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| Publishing Information: | [Madison, Wisconsin]: [American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America] |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Healthy soils are essential for sustaining the worlds ecosystems and maintaining human lifestyles. The adoption of biological, chemical, and physical analyses to assess soil health is a relatively new concept with a paucity of scientific work assessing how well these tests can predict and influence soil health. There is concern by the many that intensive soil and plant management (tillage, traffic, pesticides, fertilizers, etc.) results in degraded soil health. Sports field and golf course soils are arguably among the most intensively managed soils. The objective of this study was to compare sports field and golf course soils to farm fields, forests, and non-vegetated sands for a wide range of chemical, physical, and biological properties. A 168 samples were collected at a wide diversity of USA locations between September 2021 and April 2022. The results show that, with few exceptions, the soil health of all of the vegetated soils were similar. Fertilized soils tended to have higher levels of bioavailable nutrients, which was especially concerning for phosphorus.These data show that the intensive management of golf course and sports field soils does not result in degraded soils, but rather they generally "healthy" to sustain plant and microbial ecosystems" |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| Note: | Poster
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Barnes, M., and B. G. Hopkins. 2023. Soil health in American sports fields and golf courses. Agron. Abr. p. 148615. |
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