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How Can Apparent Soil Water Retention Capacity Be Analyzed?
This lab activity focuses on determining the water-holding capacity of different soil textures using a simple filtration method. Theoretical...
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Water retention and soil organic carbon storage in tropical karst wetlands in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Ecosystem services comprise all the benefits that humanity obtains from ecosystems. Within the regulation services, wetlands soils have an important...
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An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus alters soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity in a soil texture specific way
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) alter plant water relations and contribute to soil structure. Although soil hydraulic properties depend on soil...
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Structural characteristics of the moss (bryophyte) layer and its underlying soil structure and water retention characteristics
AimsThe influence of the moss layer on soil structure and soil water retention is not well understood. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the...
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Effects of compound water retention agent on soil nutrients and soil microbial diversity of winter wheat in saline-alkali land
Water retention agents have been applied to agricultural fields to improve the growing conditions of crops, but the potential of these agents in...
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Soil drought increases the retention time of plant water in Pinus thunbergii saplings
AimEfficient fog water utilization under soil drought conditions is important for improving the water status and growth of forest trees. However,...
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Soil water retention modulates effects of soil nutrients and stoichiometry on stability of organic carbon in a karst region, Southwestern China
AimsThe inhomogeneity of bare rock distribution and the diversity of underground rock structure in different soil-rock microsites resulted in high...
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Porous Mineral Amendments Enhance Nitrogen Mineralization via Improvement of Soil Aeration and Water Retention Characteristics
Red soils are characterized by a clay texture, resulting in low nitrogen (N) mineralization (N min ). Amendments provide a means to ameliorate N min . To...
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Enhancing Soil Organic Carbon Content and Water Retention Using Polyvinyl Alcohol Cross-linked with Chitosan and Pectin
Soil organic carbon is considered a candidate without a substitute to be an important indicator of soil degradation by monitoring its amount and...
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Combined influence of water-absorbing polymer and vegetation on soil water characteristic curve under field condition
AimsWater-absorbing polymer (WAP) is recognized as a suitable soil additive for enhancing water retention and storage in the root zone under arid...
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Partial root-zone drying (PRD) leads to lower carbon retention in the soil-plant systems of alfalfa
Pastures play vital roles in carbon (C) sequestration and the global C balance. Partial root-zone drying (PRD) is widely known to reduce water...
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Biochar Amendment Increases C and N Retention in the Soil–Plant Systems: Its Implications in Enhancing Plant Growth and Water-Use Efficiency Under Reduced Irrigation Regimes of Maize (Zea mays L.)
Biochar influences soil biophysicochemical processes and nutrient availability, yet the effects of different biochar and soil water dynamics on...
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Microbial ammonium immobilization promoted soil nitrogen retention under high moisture conditions in intensively managed fluvo-aquic soils
Quantifying the gross rates of individual nitrogen (N) processes is critical for understanding the availability, retention and loss of N and its...
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Soil Water and Plant Growth
Water is the key input in agriculture. Plants require water continuously from germination until maturity and that too in huge amounts. All the growth...
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Modelling Soil Water Dynamics
The International Society of Precision Agriculture defined precision agriculture as follows: ‘Precision Agriculture is a management strategy that...
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The effects of wildfire frequency on post-fire soil surface water dynamics
Increasing wildfire frequency in the Mediterranean Basin could affect future plant-soil–water-dynamics. The capacity of soils to retain water is a...
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Soil Water Management
Freshwater is essential to human survival but a finite resource. Only about 2.5% of the world’s total volume of water is freshwater, and the...
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Soil, Water and Nutrients
This Chapter provides an introduction to basic elements of soil science, from an understanding of the soil profile, its develop and its importance to...
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Water’s path from moss to soil Vol. 2: how soil-moss combinations affect soil water fluxes and soil loss in a temperate forest
Mosses are key components of many ecosystems and particularly related to water cycling. In principle, the importance of mosses for water-related...
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Soil and Water Conservation Techniques in Rainfed Areas
Agronomic measures and engineering measures are the techniques for soil and water conservation in rainfed areas. Agronomic practices for soil and...