Organization Fundación Global Nature

Celler del Roure

Type of ecosystem Vineyard
Working group WG 2: Scientific
Location Moixent, Valencia
Purpose of the experimentation This pilot has 2 intervention sites, the first one is a vineyard on "albariza" soils and the objective was to create a cover that could be alive as long as possible. Apart from the agronomic benefits of having the soils covered, "Albariza" soils become impassable just with a few mm of rain, so another expected result was the covers to ease operations during vintage. 4 different treatments were tested (no cover, straw mulch cover and 2 mixes with native seeds). The second intervention site was for restoring disturbed soils in front of the winery, in this case with the aim of avoiding soild erosion, but also combining it with a reasonable aesthetic value.The list of species sused are detailed in the report attached.
List of species sown The list of species sused are detailed in the report attached.
Protocol The protocols and experimental details are included in the report attached.
Free description (facultative) The protocols and experimental details are included in the report attached.The sowing operation was performed in winter 2022 and the monitoring protocols for assessing soil biological activity improvement, pollinators' activity and vegetation cover were prepared. Unfortunatelly, the conditions for the experiment were extremely bad: after the sowing operation there was no rain during almost 3 months (driest winter ever recorded) and then it was followed by the rainiest March ever recorded (>400mm). Seed germination was very poor in both cases, predation of seeds probably occured and in the vineyard pilot we found some signs of the seeds to be washed to the lower parts of the plots. For this reason the pilot was CANCELLED.
Technical report available  Oui
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