Climate and relief influence on particle size distribution and chemical properties of Pseudogley soils in Croatia

Rubinić, Vedran; Lazarević, Boris; Husnjak, Stjepan; Durn, Goran

doi:10.1016/j.catena.2014.12.024

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“…clay eluviation/illuviation) have modified the PSD of soil horizons. The major influence of parent material properties on soil PSD has been reaffirmed in recent studies on Pseudogley soils (IUSS Working Group WRB, 2006) in Croatia (Rubinić et al, 2015), and on Typic Dystrudepts (Soil Survey Staff, 2014) developed from granites in France (Mareschal et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 82%

Lithologic control on soil texture heterogeneity

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Lithologic control on soil texture heterogeneity

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“…In total, 90 soil horizons were used for the development of the PTF. Some properties of soil horizons covered in this study were previously analyzed by Rubinić et al (2015;2016), as affected by relief, climate, and profile stratigraphy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On each location, Pseudogley soils were found. One of the main features of these soils is periodic stagnation of precipitation water on/in their poorly permeable (clayenriched and often massive) subsurface Btg horizon, as well as their low pH (see Rubinić et al, 2015;2016). Most of these soils correlate with Stagnosols, and some with Stagnic Retisols and Stagnic Luvisols (IUSS Working Group WRB, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the objective of this study was to use readily available properties of 33 forest Pseudogley profiles distributed across continental Croatia, in order to develop a region-specific PTF that would allow BD prediction for such (and similar) soils across the wider region. Although Pseudogleys are the most common soils in continental Croatia (Bogunović et al, 1998;Rubinić et al, 2015), such PTF is currently missing.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Prediction of bulk density in Croatian forest Pseudogleys based on contents of soil organic matter and clay

Rubinić¹,

Safner²

2019

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Soil bulk density (BD) is often used to assess soil properties related to soil structure and general soil quality, or to convert weight units to volume/area units. Because collecting undisturbed soil samples (cores) and directly measuring BD is laborious and time-consuming, data on BD are often lacking. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) can be used to predict BD from more readily available (easily measured) properties. However, specific PTFs for specific range of soils should be developed. In this study, soil organic matter (SOM) and clay contents of 90 forest Pseudogleys horizons, distributed across 11 locations in continental Croatia, were used to develop a multiple linear regression equation that predicts BD. The results have shown that the increase in BD due to the unit increase in clay content is lower than the decrease in BD due to the unit decrease in SOM content. PTF performance was relatively high (R 2 adj=77.5%, RMSE=0.1 g*cm-3 , MAE=0.08 g*cm-3), showing that missing data on soil BD of Croatian Pseudogleys (or other similar soils, formed on similar parent materials) can be estimated reasonably well by using it. However, care should be taken when dealing with arable soils, which have different properties, compared with the natural soils considered herein.

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“…The surrounding area is mostly a mixture of plains with gentle hills. The parent materials in the area are composed of loamy loess sediments that developed a silty loam Luvic Stagnosols (IUSS Working Group WRB 2006) formed by top down pedogenesis (Rubinić et al 2015). Organic matter ranges from 16 g/kg at the surface to 6 g/kg at a depth of 35-95 cm (Table 1).…”

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confidence: 99%