Physico-chemical characteristics of topsoil for contrasted forest, agricultural, urban and industrial land uses in France
2016
Joimel, Sophie | Cortet, Jérôme | Jolivet, Claudy, C. | Saby, Nicolas | Chenot, Elodie-Denise | Branchu, Philippe | Consalès, Jean-Noël | Lefort, Clémence | Morel, Jean-Louis | Schwartz, Christophe | Laboratoire Sols et Environnement (LSE) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Lorraine (UL) | Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) ; Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) | InfoSol (InfoSol) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) | Transferts et interactions liés à l'eau en milieu construit (TEAM) ; Centre d'Etudes et d'Expertise sur les Risques, l'Environnement, la Mobilité et l'Aménagement (Cerema) | Temps, espaces, langages Europe méridionale-Méditerranée (TELEMME) ; Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Soil quality is related to soil characteristics such as fertility and contamination. The aim of this study is to assessthe effect of land use on these soil characteristics and to confirmthe following anthropisation gradient: (i) forest,(ii) grassland, (iii) cultivated, (iv) orchard and vineyard, (v) urban vegetable garden, and (vi) SUITMA(urban, industrial,traffic, mining and military areas). A database comprising the characteristics of 2451 soils has been constituted.In order to compare the topsoils from six contrasting land uses, a principal components analysis (PCA)was performed on nine geochemical variables (C, N, pH, POlsen, total Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn). The first axis of the PCA isinterpreted as a global increase of topsoil metallic elements along the anthropisation gradient. Axis 2 reflects thevariability of fertility levels. Human activity increases the pressure on soils along the proposed gradient accordingto six different distribution patterns. This better knowledge of topsoil quality and its dependence on current landuse should therefore help to manage and preserve the soil mantle.
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