Apesteguía Barberena, MarcosVirto Quecedo, ÍñigoOrcaray Echeverría, LuisBescansa Miquel, PalomaEnrique Martín, AlbertoImaz Gurruchaga, María JoséKarlen, Douglas2017-11-152017-11-1520172071-1050 (Electronic)10.3390/su9081476https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/26132Irrigation is being initiated on large areas of traditionally rainfed land to meet increasing global demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel. However, the consequences of this transition on soil quality (SQ) have scarcely been studied. Therefore, after previously identifying the most tillage-sensitive SQ indicators under long-term rainfed conditions, conversion of a research site on a Haplic Calcisol in Navarre, in northeast Spain provided an ideal location to reevaluate those SQ indicators after three years of irrigated management. The Soil Management Assessment Framework (SMAF) was used to test our hypothesis that adopting irrigation could change the sensitivity and importance of non-irrigated SQ indicators. Several soil physical, chemical, and biological indicators along with crop yields were used to evaluate SQ three years after initiating irrigation on a long-term conventional tillage (CT), minimum tillage (MT) and no-tillage (NT) study where either barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) or wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was being grown. The results confirmed our hypothesis that irrigation would change the relative importance of various SQ indicators and suggested that some SMAF algorithms, such as those used to assess bulk density, needed to be recalibrated for these Mediterranean soils.20 p.application/pdfeng© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licenseSoil management assessment framework (SMAF)Soil organic carbon (SOC)Bulk density (BD)Particulate organic matter carbon (POM-C)Conventional tillage (CT)Minimum tillage (MT)No-tillage (NT)BarleyTillage effects on soil quality after three years of irrigation in Northern SpainArtículo / ArtikuluaAcceso abierto / Sarbide irekiainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess