[1]SUN Hua,ZHAO Xuefeng,HE Maoping.Analysis of Ecological Benefits of Side Slope Protection by Typical Vegetation Along the Highway in Southwest Areas[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2015,22(04):6-11.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
22
Number of periods:
2015 04
Page number:
6-11
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Public date:
2015-08-28
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Analysis of Ecological Benefits of Side Slope Protection by Typical Vegetation Along the Highway in Southwest Areas
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SUN Hua1, ZHAO Xuefeng2, HE Maoping2
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1. Chongqing Water Resources and Electric Engineering College, Yongchuan, Chongqing 402160, China;
2. Faculty of Urban and Rural Construction, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, China
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- Keywords:
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side slope; vegetation type; soil and water conservation; ecological slope protection
- CLC:
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S157.2
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- Abstract:
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Using localization shrubs to reconstruct plant communities plays a very important role in superhighway side slope ecological protection, but its protection effect is easily affected by the configuration mode and reconstructing years. In this case, five typical vegetation modes composed by landscape transitional zone (ornamental arbors with 0.5 m×0.5 m of spacing + ground-cover plants with 0.05 m×0.1 m of spacing inthe rows) and slope protection zone (shrubs + herbages with 10 g/m2 of planting density), including Neosino calamus affinis—Buchloe dactyloides (M1), Coronilla varia—Festuca rubra (M2), Medicago falcate—Cynodon dactylon (M3), Coronilla varia—Lolium perenne (M4) and Vitex negundo—Setaria viridis (M5), reconstructed. Chengyu expressway in Yongchuan were taken as the example and foundation, their characteristics of runoff and erosion sediment in rainy seasons in the years from 2012 to 2014 were investigated, and the annual fluctuation of their ecological slope protection capacity was analyzed. Results showed that:(1) the annual herbaceous plants in the grass-shrub community, i. e., Vitex negundo+Setaria viridis grew rapidly, which turf-establishment stage (65 d) was transitory, its capacity of soil and water conservation (80.03% and 98.49%, respectively) were higher than other modes in the first growing season after turf-establishment (2012), and among five vegetation modes, its runoff and sediment yield (61.2 mm and 52.0 g/m2, respectively) were the lowest(p < 0.05). However, the perennial herbs (e.g., Cynodon dactylon, Lolium perenne and so on) in the grass-shrub communities grew tardily with more laggardly turf-establishment stages, and their outstanding capacities of soil and water conservation only showed in the second or third growing season after turf-establishment; (2) in the rainy seasons in 2013, ecological protection benefits of the grass-shrub communities (M1—M4) including perennial herbs improved apparently, which were especially outstanding in Coronilla varia+Lolium perenne (M4) and Medicago falcate+Cynodon dactylon (M3); (3) in the third growing season (2014), performance of artificial vegetations Medicago falcate+Cynodon dactylon (M3) was the most excellent in slope protection by means of developed root system of Bermuda grass, its capacity of soil and water conservation were 80.03% and 98.49%, respectively, its runoff and sediment yield were no more than 32.40 mm and 17.67 g/m2, respectively, and in contrast, that of M4 was the worst in the slope plot experiments where artificial vegetations were planted. Therefore, it can be seen that ecological protection benefit of artificial vegetation was closely related to their community characteristics, there was a positive correlation between the aboveground biomass of vegetation and their capacity of soil and water conservation in initial succession with determination coefficient (R2) more than 0.987, and did so between root biomass and these capacity in latter succession(R2≥0.998) when there were the same side slope conditions, seed quantity and planting measures.