Synonyms Water content; Wetness Definition: what is soil moisture? Soil moisture usually refers to the amount of water stored in the soil. Any soil can absorb a given amount of water before being...doi:10.1007/978-0-387-36699-9_173Yann Kerr...
and rod tests and samples can be taken for gravimetric water content measurements (Soil Survey Division Staff, 1993). Soil moisture (long term means) is recognized at high levels inSoil Taxonomythrough the soil moisture regimes that distinguishHistosolsandAridisolsat the order level, and in many...
In general, the soil moisture (SM) content refers to the moisture contained in the unsaturated soil zone with a volumetric or gravimetric basis (Seneviratne et al., 2010; AI-Yaari et al., 2014). Although SM takes up only a small percentage (~0.05%) of the total amount of fresh water...
Humans depend upon soil-based ecosystems for many essential activities including agriculture, grazing, and forestry, as well as for other uses such as recreation, mining, drilling, and development. All of these land uses have the potential to affect soil
Flash droughts as proposed by Mo and Lettenmaier13,14 used different combinations of thresholds of soil moisture (SM), temperature (T), precipitation (P), and evapotranspiration to identify the heat wave flash drought (HWFD) and the P deficit flash drought (PDFD). Another definition is ...
(i.e. soil moisture) andlarge or mesoscale models; and,*to sort out the data issues.CRITICAL ISSUES FOR SOIL MOISTUREDefinition of soil moistureThe first point addressed was what we mean by soil moisture. It was decided to callsoil moisture 'the amount of water in the first five ...
was more important in influencing the composition of soil microbial community. The probable reason is that we only introduced invasive taxa in a relatively small density (5% of resident taxa), and the influences of the subsequent biotic pressure were weaker than the change in soil moisture on ...
the definition and history of soil health are described and compared with other soil concepts. We outline ecosystem services provided by soils, the indicators used to measure soil functionality and their integration into informative soil-health indices. Scientists should embrace soil health as an overar...
Adjustments according to soil conditions such as soil texture, moisture content, and soil pH are important to seed and fertilizer placement. The adjustments may contribute to increased yields at reduced unit costs. Equipment companies are developing various tools including tillage equipment with GPS and...
It is possible to generalize that the spatial distribution of soil dynamic properties depends on topographic variables only if soil moisture content is higher than some threshold value. In drier and wetter soil conditions, the number of denitrifiers was different. It depended on topography in the ...