Effect of different vegetation types on infiltration and soil water retention
Abstract
The objective of this study was to measure and compare soil-water infiltration, soil water retention and bulk density at three soil depths of non-carbonate silty clay gleyic fluvisol in the Kolubara river valley (West Serbia) under natural deciduous forest and meadow vegetation and the adjacent gleyic fluvisol used for more than 100 years as cultivated soil, with the same site conditions. Five infiltration measurement were made in each of three treatments. The results showes that the forest soil has the highest steady infiltration rate. The infiltration rate for the forest was about 2.5 times higher compared with the meadow and about 6 times higher compared with the cultivated soil. The soil water content for a selected pressure was the highest in the forest soil in the 0-15 cm depth compared with the meadow and cultivated soils. The meadow and cultivated soils did not show any significant (P lt 0.05) difference in soil water content at the 0.0, -33 and -1500 kPa pressure. Results sh...ow that the forest soil can accept and store more available water than meadow and cultivated soils in the 0-30 cm depth.
Keywords:
forest / meadow / tillage / fluvisol / infiltration / soil water retention / bulk densitySource:
Cereal Research Communications, 2008, 36, SUPPL. 5, 991-994Collections
Institution/Community
Poljoprivredni fakultetTY - CONF AU - Gajić, Boško AU - Dugalić, Goran AU - Sredojević, Zorica AU - Tomić, Zorica PY - 2008 UR - http://aspace.agrif.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1629 AB - The objective of this study was to measure and compare soil-water infiltration, soil water retention and bulk density at three soil depths of non-carbonate silty clay gleyic fluvisol in the Kolubara river valley (West Serbia) under natural deciduous forest and meadow vegetation and the adjacent gleyic fluvisol used for more than 100 years as cultivated soil, with the same site conditions. Five infiltration measurement were made in each of three treatments. The results showes that the forest soil has the highest steady infiltration rate. The infiltration rate for the forest was about 2.5 times higher compared with the meadow and about 6 times higher compared with the cultivated soil. The soil water content for a selected pressure was the highest in the forest soil in the 0-15 cm depth compared with the meadow and cultivated soils. The meadow and cultivated soils did not show any significant (P lt 0.05) difference in soil water content at the 0.0, -33 and -1500 kPa pressure. Results show that the forest soil can accept and store more available water than meadow and cultivated soils in the 0-30 cm depth. C3 - Cereal Research Communications T1 - Effect of different vegetation types on infiltration and soil water retention EP - 994 IS - SUPPL. 5 SP - 991 VL - 36 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_agrospace_1629 ER -
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Gajić, B., Dugalić, G., Sredojević, Z.,& Tomić, Z.. (2008). Effect of different vegetation types on infiltration and soil water retention. in Cereal Research Communications, 36(SUPPL. 5), 991-994. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_agrospace_1629
Gajić B, Dugalić G, Sredojević Z, Tomić Z. Effect of different vegetation types on infiltration and soil water retention. in Cereal Research Communications. 2008;36(SUPPL. 5):991-994. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_agrospace_1629 .
Gajić, Boško, Dugalić, Goran, Sredojević, Zorica, Tomić, Zorica, "Effect of different vegetation types on infiltration and soil water retention" in Cereal Research Communications, 36, no. SUPPL. 5 (2008):991-994, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_agrospace_1629 .