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Abstract
Soil moisture can have a direct and indirect influence on soil detachment capacity (Dc). However, the appropriate threshold of soil moisture for increasing total root length and decreasing Dc is still unclear. This paper presents a quantitative assessment of impacts of soil moisture classes on total root length and Dc. The values of soil moisture content were classified into five classes, 10–15 %, 20–25 %, 30–35 %, 40–45 % and 50–55 %, and soil samples along with root prepared for Dc measurements. The results showed that the decrease in Dc as a function of total root length could be related to soil moisture class of 30–35 %. A modelling approach has shown that linear regression models between Dc and shear stress for soil moisture classes were accurate (r2 = 0.71–83) for predicting rill erodibility (Kr).
RhizosphereAgricultural and Biological Sciences-Agronomy and Crop Science
CiteScore
5.70
自引率
8.10%
发文量
155
审稿时长
29 days
期刊介绍:
Rhizosphere aims to advance the frontier of our understanding of plant-soil interactions. Rhizosphere is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes research on the interactions between plant roots, soil organisms, nutrients, and water. Except carbon fixation by photosynthesis, plants obtain all other elements primarily from soil through roots.
We are beginning to understand how communications at the rhizosphere, with soil organisms and other plant species, affect root exudates and nutrient uptake. This rapidly evolving subject utilizes molecular biology and genomic tools, food web or community structure manipulations, high performance liquid chromatography, isotopic analysis, diverse spectroscopic analytics, tomography and other microscopy, complex statistical and modeling tools.