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Polyacrylamide (PAM) is becoming a widely used soil conditioning and erosion control agent, and a better understanding of its transport is required to improve its use. In this study vertical PAM transport through a clay loam soil was investigated using thin soil columns (7.62-cm diameter×2-cm thick) under saturated condition. The columns received a water-soluble, anionic PAM solution (16Mgmol ...
Adding carbon-rich solids from pyrolysis (pyrochars) and hydrothermal carbonization (hydrochars) to soils can improve their hydraulic properties and increase the plant available soil water capacity (AWC). However, the effects of the specific char characteristics on soil hydraulic properties are still little understood and thus, difficult to optimize for soil amendment. It is often assumed that the...
Treated wastewater (TWW) is an important water resource, especially in semiarid and arid regions. However, there are concerns that irrigation with TWW could lead to degradation of soil physical and hydraulic properties. The objective of our study was to determine the effects of long-term (≥15years) irrigation with secondary TWW on some basic and hydraulic soil properties of a clay soil. Undisturbed...
Few studies have considered the effect of organic amendments on soil microbial activity and its contributions to hydraulic conductivity under field conditions in semiarid region soils with different textures and degrees of aggregate stability. This study was performed to investigate the relationship between selected soil properties and hydraulic conductivity in response to different types and application...
Previous studies have shown that once compacted, forest soils often recover slowly over many decades to pre-disturbed levels for soil properties such as bulk density or penetrometer resistance. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of selected harvesting techniques on soil physical and hydraulic properties. The effects of logging roads, log landing areas, and logged areas on soil properties...
The effect of irrigation with treated wastewater (TWW) on soil physico-chemical and hydraulic properties was evaluated in this study. Field treatments were: non-irrigated (rain-fed) plot (control), rain-fed plot for the first three years and irrigated with TWW for the last two years (2yr) and plot irrigated with TWW for five years (5yr). Soil samples were collected from two depth intervals (0–15 and...
In regions with shallow soils underlain by fractured bedrock, hydrological processes of substrate are no longer only limited to soil layers. However, ecohydrological functions of bedrock fractures, especially those filled with different soil and regolith materials, have not been fully understood. In this study, we aimed to evaluate water transport and supplying capacities of the filled fractures through...
Prairie restoration has received increased public attention in recent years for its ecosystem services. The objective of this study was to evaluate effects of prairie restoration on soil hydraulic properties as compared to native prairie (NP), grass and row-crop management. Soil cores (76mm diam.×76mm long) from six replicate locations were sampled to a 60-cm depth at 10-cm intervals from two prairie...
Saline-sodic soils may be reclaimed through the addition of amendments to alter the soil pore system and hydraulic functions, therefore allowing salts to be leached from the soil. For the purpose of investigating the suitability of specific amendments for improving leaching and reclamation, soil percolation column studies were conducted to assess the influence of amendments on cation exchange, the...
Reliable estimates of the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties are needed in many research and engineering projects. Fractal based approaches have become popular for describing the hydraulic functions. New models based on fractal geometry are presented to describe the wetting phase relative permeability (unsaturated hydraulic conductivity) of porous media. Analytical expressions were derived using...
Acid sulfate soil leachates deteriorate the aquatic ecosystems of their recipient waters around the world. In Finland, AS soils are located mainly on the coast of the Baltic Sea, where rivers and estuaries suffer from acid leachates and waters do not meet with the criteria of good water quality set by the EU. Field drainage of cultivated AS soils is attributable to leaching of acidity, but regardless...
The recent modernization of 1.1Mha of irrigated land in Spain calls for the evaluation of these transformations in terms of environmental impact and resource use efficiency. The available data for this evaluation has increased with the transformation (better, digital and spatially distributed data) allowing for the use of distributed soil water and solute movement models. But most hydrological models...
Although rubber-based (Hevea brasiliensis) agroforestry systems are regarded as the best approach to improving the sustainability of rubber agriculture and environmental conservation, soil physico-chemical properties and their related interactions have rarely been examined in such systems. The objective of this study was to examine the management and landscape effects on soil structure, soil moisture...
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