Abstract
Various land use types have been implemented by the government in the loess hilly region of China to facilitate sustainable land use. Understanding the variability in soil moisture and temperature under various sloping land use types can aid the ecological restoration and sustainable utilization of sloping land resources. The objective of this study was to use approximate entropy (ApEn) to reveal the variations in soil moisture and temperature under different land use types, because ApEn only requires a short data series to obtain robust estimates, with a strong anti-interference ability. An experiment was conducted with four typical land use scenarios (i.e., soybean sloping field, maize terraced field, jujube orchard, and grassland) over two consecutive plant growing seasons (2014 and 2015), and the time series of soil moisture and temperature within different soil depth layers of each land use type were measured in both seasons. The results showed that the changing amplitude, degree of variation, and active layer of soil moisture in the 0–160 cm soil depth layer, as well as the changing amplitude and degree of variation of soil temperature in the 0–100 cm soil layer increased in the jujube orchard over the two growing seasons. The changing amplitude, degree of variation, and active layer of soil moisture all decreased in the maize terraced field, as did the changing amplitude and degree of variation of soil temperature. The ApEn of the soil moisture series was the lowest in the 0–160 cm soil layer in the maize terraced field, and the ApEn of the soil temperature series was the highest in the 0–100 cm layer in the jujube orchard in the two growing seasons. Finally, the jujube orchard soil moisture and temperature change process were more variable, whereas the changes in the maize terraced field were more stable, with a stable soil moisture and temperature. This work highlights the usefulness of ApEn for revealing soil moisture and temperature changes and to guide the management and development of sloping fields.
Highlights
The loess hilly region is one of the most critical soil erosion areas in China, which constrains the ecological and sustainable development of agriculture [1, 2]
Jujube orchard showed an increase in the changing amplitude, degree of variation, and active layer of soil moisture at 0–160 cm, as well as in the changing amplitude and degree of variation of soil temperature in the 0–100 cm soil layer during the growing seasons of the normal precipitation year (2014) and dry year (2015)
The changing amplitude, degree of variation, and active layer of soil moisture all decreased in the maize terraced field, as did the changing amplitude and degree of variation in soil temperature
Summary
The loess hilly region is one of the most critical soil erosion areas in China, which constrains the ecological and sustainable development of agriculture [1, 2]. Sloping land use affects the complexity of soil moisture and temperature changes. Foundation (No 2020M671623), and “Blue Project” of Yangzhou University
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