Speaker: Dr. Patricia Lazicki, UCCE Vegetable Crops Advisor for Yolo, Solano, and Sacramento Counties
We often talk about healthy soils as being more “resilient”. But are they? What does resilience mean? How do we measure it? In this seminar, Patricia will discuss some of the ways resilience is defined. As a basis for the discussion, she will present the results from a controlled study in which she took soil cores from three contrasting management systems (conventional, long-term organic, and secondary forest), and measured soil health metrics and resilience to heat and drought stress. The goal was to test which soil health metrics best predicted the resilience of C and N cycling functions.