Environmental principles of using drained organic soils under changing climate conditions

Serbeniuk, Viktor (author), Sliusаr, Ivan (author), Povidalo, Valerii (author), Tarasenko, Oleksandra (author), Serbe-Niuk, Hanna (author), Boiarova, Olena (author)

The study is based on the results of long-term field experiments conducted on cultivated carbonate peat soils. The results indicate that the most effective and environmentally sustainable land-use system is a crop rotation comprising five to six fields of perennial grasses and two to three fields of annual crops, including spring rapeseed, sunflower, maize, soybean, oats, and triticale. This system ensures high agroecosystem productivity, with average yields of spring rapeseed reaching 3.0–3.3 t ha-¹ and sunflower 5.0–5.5 t ha-¹, while reducing peat organic matter mineralization from 6.2–6.4 t ha-¹ under crop rotations dominated by annual crops to 5.2–6.2 t ha-¹ in the proposed system. The application of fertilizer rates established on the basis of long-term field experiments further enhances soil fertility, reduces nutrient losses, and maintains an optimal water–air regime in peat soils. Perennial grasses play a key stabilizing role by enhancing organic matter accumulation, improving soil structure, and maintaining an optimal water–air regime.

• Language: English
• Keywords: drained peat soils, grass-based crop rotation, peat mineralization, nutrient leaching, agroecosystem resilience, climate change adaptation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: 13 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 122, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-189520
• UDC: 631
• ISSN on article: 1854-1941
• DOI: 10.14720/aas.2026.122.3.27413
• COBISS.SI-ID: 294230019
• Publication date in RUL: 08.10.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta agriculturae Slovenica
• Publisher: Biotehniška fakulteta, Oddelek za agronomijo in Oddelek za zootehniko, Biotehniška fakulteta, Oddelek za agronomijo in Oddelek za zootehniko, Univerza v Ljubljani, Biotehniška fakulteta, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 1854-1941
• COBISS.SI-ID: 219581184

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Okoljska načela rabe izsušenih organskih tal v spreminjajočih se podnebnih razmerah
• Keywords: osušena šotna tla, kolobar s travami, šota, mineralizacija, izpiranje hranil, odpornost agroekosistema, prilagajanje na podnebne spremembe