Sustainable land management requires reliable information about soil hydraulic properties. Among these properties, available water-holding capacity (AWC) is a key attribute, as it quantifies the amount of water available for plants that the soil can hold
Agroforestry systems combining trees with crops or pastures have been widely used to reduce water, soil, and nutrient losses and associated water pollution from agricultural lands in both temperate and tropical regions. However, reviews on improvement/efficiency and the scope of such reductions by soil...
Continue to add organic matter each season during soil preparation to build and maintain the soil. Be patient; it may take several seasons of amendments until the soil is loamy. After amending the soil, it’s best to water well and then check the soil moisture. Let a window of at least ...
magnesium level between 10-18% and potassium level between 35% provides the best opportunity for all nutrients in the soil to be available, good soil structure and water-holding capacity and
[1]. However, clay has a higher cohesive strength and water holding capacity than sand or silt due to their small particle size and high surface area [44]. Therefore, the color, texture, and shape features of clayey soil surface images may differ from those of the soil samples used in ...
Field Capacity: The amount of soil water held in the soil after excess water has drained away and the rate of downward movement has decreased. Permanent Wilting Point: The minimal amount of water in the soil that the plant requires not to wilt. This is normally defined as 1500 centibars/...
75. The emergence of this phenomenon not only shows that the soil organic matter content has a positive effect on the soil water-holding capacity but may also be related to the soil organic matter content before fertilization76,77. Factors affecting differences in the initial soil organic matter...
The control soil should in principle resemble the contaminated soil in all relevant parameters, e.g., texture, pH, organic matter, waterholding capacity, and nutrient content, a practical problem that very often is difficult to solve. The lack of adequate control or reference sites may, however...
Remote sensing data provide a precious source of co-variates for SMS, either because they can map some controlling factors of soil properties changes, (like land-use for instance) or because they can help to capture indirectly some soil properties (for instance available water capacity through veg...
Hassan44 and Liao45 reported that the soil texture directly affects soil physical properties such as temperature, gas exchange and the soil water holding capacity, which consequently affects the soil nutrient availability and microbial diversity. Boivin46 reported that natural soil properties generally ...