Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a sampling method for measuring the volume weight of soil, which is easy to operate and less in damage. The method can measure the volume weight of the soil on alpine meadow soil with fragile environment, and can effectively reduce the damage to the alpine meadow.
A nondestructive alpine meadow soil volume weight determination sampling method comprises the following steps:
(1) set square fixed point
After a measuring sample plot is selected, randomly fixing points by using a set square, vertically driving steel nails into the ground surface at 3 vertexes of the set square respectively, and connecting 3 steel nails by using nylon ropes to form a triangular area;
(2) turf shifting
Vertically cutting and shoveling the earth surface turf in the triangular area by using a soil-taking shovel, shoveling the turf by a depth of 2-3 cm to ensure the integrity of the turf, putting the turf in a clean plastic bag, fastening a pocket, and storing the turf in a dark place to prevent excessive evaporation and loss of water;
(3) cutting ring recovery
Vertically driving the handle with the edge close to the ring into soil by using an iron hammer, taking the ground surface as a reference surface, taking the soil layer by layer, and recovering the ring cutter after the ring cutter is driven to a determined depth; taking out the cutting ring, scraping the floating soil on the upper surface and the lower surface of the cutting ring, immediately placing the soil sample in a storage box, storing the soil sample and the storage box in a wind-proof environment, weighing the weight of the storage box and fresh soil, respectively filling each layer of scraped soil in a clean plastic bag, and storing in a dark place;
(4) soil backfilling
After sampling is finished, pouring the scraped soil collected in the plastic bag into a sampling point layer by layer;
(5) turf replacement
And after the soil is backfilled, covering the turf filled in the clean plastic bag on the ground surface, taking all the storage boxes back to a laboratory after sampling, drying and weighing, and calculating the volume weight of the soil.
Further, the cutting ring is in an inverted cone shape, the cross section of the cutting ring is a hollow ring, a cutting edge is arranged at the lower part of the cutter body, and the parameter requirement of the cutting ring is that the diameter of the cross section is phi 50-52 mm; height h 50 mm; taking 100 cubes by a cutting ring once. Reduce soil damage and quickly extract soil samples. The inverted cone is convenient for going deep into soil and is also convenient for lifting and taking soil.
The triangular plate and the cutting ring are made of steel and stainless steel. Is convenient for long-term use.
Further, the diameter of the nylon rope is phi 8 mm. On the basis of guaranteeing the connection strength between the steel nails, the technical staff can conveniently carry out the knotting operation by hand.
The storage box is made of aluminum, the weight is conveniently carried, the collection cavity is formed in the storage box, the diameter of the cross section of the collection cavity is phi 55-60 mm, and the height h of the collection cavity is 60-65 mm. Is convenient to be matched with the cutting ring to collect soil.
Further the soil sample is weighed by using an electronic balance, a JA1003 electronic balance of Shanghai Puchun measuring instrument Limited company; the storage battery is arranged in the device, so that the device is convenient for field use.
Furthermore, the triangular plate is an equilateral triangle, the side length a is 14cm, the distance between adjacent sampling points is controlled through the side length of the triangular plate, a measuring tool is not needed, and the field operation efficiency is improved.
The invention provides a sampling method for measuring the volume weight of soil, which is easy to operate and less in damage. Has the following advantages:
the area of the alpine meadow damaged in sampling is reduced, and the ecological environment is effectively protected; after sampling is finished, the plant growth environment before damage can be reduced as much as possible, and the soil environment for vegetation growth at sampling points is reduced; the integrity of the root system of the vegetation on the earth surface is effectively protected, and the possibility of regrowth of the vegetation at the sampling point is increased; the time and the work for digging a soil profile are saved, the workload is effectively reduced, and the working efficiency is improved; the problem of small sampling data volume when the volume weight of the soil is measured by adopting a cutting ring method in the prior art can be solved; artificial intervention activities such as shallow ploughing, turf scratching, root cutting and the like are very effective repairing measures for recovering vegetation and soil of the moderately and severely degraded meadow, and meanwhile turf scratching can properly increase the water retention performance of the soil of part of the alpine meadow in rainy seasons.
Detailed Description
A nondestructive alpine meadow soil volume weight determination sampling method comprises the following steps:
(1) set square fixed point
After a measuring sample plot is selected, randomly fixing points by using a set square, vertically driving steel nails into the ground surface at 3 vertexes of the set square respectively, and connecting 3 steel nails by using nylon ropes to form a triangular area;
(2) turf shifting
Vertically cutting and shoveling the earth surface turf in the triangular area by using a soil-taking shovel, shoveling the turf by a depth of 2-3 cm to ensure the integrity of the turf, putting the turf in a clean plastic bag, fastening a pocket, and storing the turf in a dark place to prevent excessive evaporation and loss of water;
(3) cutting ring recovery
Vertically driving the handle with the edge close to the ring into soil by using an iron hammer, taking the ground surface as a reference surface, taking the soil layer by layer, and recovering the ring cutter after the ring cutter is driven to a determined depth; taking out the cutting ring, scraping the floating soil on the upper surface and the lower surface of the cutting ring, immediately placing the soil sample in a storage box, storing the soil sample and the storage box in a wind-proof environment, weighing the weight of the storage box and fresh soil, respectively filling each layer of scraped soil in a clean plastic bag, and storing in a dark place;
(4) soil backfilling: after sampling is finished, pouring the scraped soil collected in the plastic bag into a sampling point layer by layer;
(5) and (3) turf restoration: and after the soil is backfilled, covering the turf filled in the clean plastic bag on the ground surface, taking all the storage boxes back to a laboratory after sampling, drying and weighing, and calculating the volume weight of the soil.
Further, the cutting ring is in an inverted cone shape, the cross section of the cutting ring is a hollow ring, a cutting edge is arranged at the lower part of the cutter body, and the parameter requirement of the cutting ring is that the diameter of the cross section is phi 50-52 mm; height h 50 mm; taking 100 cubes by a cutting ring once. Reduce soil damage and quickly extract soil samples. The inverted cone is convenient for going deep into soil and is also convenient for lifting and taking soil.
The triangular plate and the cutting ring are made of steel and stainless steel. Is convenient for long-term use.
Further, the diameter of the nylon rope is phi 8 mm. On the basis of guaranteeing the connection strength between the steel nails, the technical staff can conveniently carry out the knotting operation by hand.
The storage box is made of aluminum, the weight is conveniently carried, the collection cavity is formed in the storage box, the diameter of the cross section of the collection cavity is phi 55-60 mm, and the height h of the collection cavity is 60-65 mm. Is convenient to be matched with the cutting ring to collect soil.
Further the soil sample is weighed by using an electronic balance, a JA1003 electronic balance of Shanghai Puchun measuring instrument Limited company; the storage battery is arranged in the device, so that the device is convenient for field use.
Furthermore, the triangular plate is an equilateral triangle, the side length a is 14cm, the distance between adjacent sampling points is controlled through the side length of the triangular plate, a measuring tool is not needed, and the field operation efficiency is improved.
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described more fully, the method of the present invention comprising the steps of:
1) after selecting a measuring sample plot, randomly fixing the point by using a triangular plate (a regular triangular plate, the length is 14 cm);
2) vertically driving steel nails into the ground surface at 3 vertexes of the set square respectively, connecting 3 steel nails by nylon ropes to form 1 triangular area after connection;
3) vertically cutting and slightly shoveling off the surface turf (with the depth of 2-3 cm) in the triangular area by using a soil-taking shovel, ensuring the integrity of the turf as much as possible, filling the turf into a clean plastic bag, fastening a pocket, and storing the turf in a dark place to prevent excessive evaporation (loss) of water;
4) taking the position of 3 steel nails as the circle center of the cutting ring, slightly shoveling off the turf 5 cm around the circle center of the cutting ring, pulling out the steel nails, placing the steel nails in a clean plastic bag, taking a triangular plate as an auxiliary tool, respectively taking the earth surface as a reference surface at 3 fixed points of the triangular plate and the center of the triangular plate, and taking earth according to the measured depth;
5) and (4) taking every 10 cm as a sampling limit in the step 4), vertically driving a 100-cube handle close to the cutting ring into soil by using an iron hammer during sampling, and recovering the cutting ring after the cutting ring is driven to the determined depth. After the cutting ring is taken out from the ground, the upper surface and the lower surface of the cutting ring are scraped by a soil cutting knife, and the soil sample is immediately placed in a corresponding storage box;
6) calculating and weighing actually required soil sample quality according to the measurement indexes (the required soil sample quality can be calculated before the experiment begins, and the specific calculation is omitted because the requirements of different plots are inconsistent and the specific calculation is not the key point of protection in the scheme), scraping redundant soil samples and putting the scraped redundant soil samples into a clean plastic bag;
7) taking out all the soil with the depth measured in the range of the triangular plate after every 10 cm of volume weight in the measuring step 5), uniformly mixing and weighing the required soil sample in the measuring step 6), placing the soil sample in a corresponding aluminum box, scraping the redundant soil, placing the scraped soil in a clean plastic bag, and fastening the plastic bag. Measuring the volume weight of the next 10 cm depth according to the measuring scheme;
8) drying and weighing aluminum boxes used in the determination process before the experiment begins, horizontally placing an electronic balance after a soil sample is placed in the aluminum boxes in a wind-sheltering environment, and weighing and recording the weight (the aluminum boxes and fresh soil);
9) and after sampling according to the determination scheme, pouring the soil of the plastic bag into the sampling points layer by layer, and finally covering the turf on the ground. If the conditions allow, pouring proper amount of water to the damaged turf to recover the turf as soon as possible;
10) and after sampling, all the aluminum boxes are taken back to a laboratory for drying and weighing, and the volume weight of the soil is calculated.
The above-described method is only an example of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention. The present invention may be suitably modified or perfected over the course of long-term practice. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement or the like made within the principle and spirit of the present invention shall be included in the protection scope of the present invention.