The application of pedotransfer functions in the estimation of water retention in alluvial soils in Żuławy Wiślane, northern Poland

Hewelke, Piotr; Hewelke, Edyta; Oleszczuk, Ryszard; Kwas, Marcin

doi:10.2478/ssa-2018-0001

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“…The degree of retention capabilities of forest soils are much less known than the retention of land used for agriculture [55,56]. On the other hand, pedotransfer functions have a local nature, as a result of which differences in precision of retention assessment may be significant [57]. Additionally, the development of a new methodology to compare the connectivity processes at the catchment with the pedon scale indicates the possibility of allowing inclusion of the absent micro-topographical information (e.g., [58]).…”

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Influence of Abandoning Agricultural Land Use on Hydrophysical Properties of Sandy Soil

Hewelke

2019

Water

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Soil water repellency can significantly degrade its agricultural utility and bring aboutnegative environmental consequences (i.e., reduced infiltration capacity, enhanced overland flow,increased erosion rates, and water infiltration occurred in irregular patterns). The presented studyaimed to establish whether excluding albic Podzols from agricultural production and theirspontaneous inhabitation by a pine tree stand affected their hydrophysical properties. Studies withthe application of the water drop penetration time (WDPT) test showed that a change in the landuse increased the potential water repellency of the surface layer (horizon A) and caused itschangeover from strongly repellent class (Class 2) to extremely repellent (Class 5). The relationshipbetween soil moisture content and wettability made it possible to determine the critical soil moisturecontent (CSMC) for the occurrence of the phenomenon of water repellency. It was confirmed thatthe CSMC value increased along with a change in use. For the site under arable use, it was 9–10vol.%, whereas for the site formerly under arable use and currently covered predominantly by apine tree stand, a value in the range of 14–16 vol.% was reached. A laboratory experiment on surfacerunoff of the soil formerly under arable use showed that over half of the rainfall may be transformedinto surface runoff as a result of occurring water repellency. This means that exceeding the criticalsoil moisture content makes the recharge of soil retention difficult and may significantly influencethe water balance of soil, as well as increasing its susceptibility to drought.

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Influence of Abandoning Agricultural Land Use on Hydrophysical Properties of Sandy Soil

Hewelke

2019

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“…Such a lithogenetic approach, which is treating alluvial soils as a one unit without taking into account pedogenic transformations, can be found in many publications on various study aspects, e.g. : clay minerals (Cieśla et al, 1988), water retention (Hewelke et al, 2018), soil contamination (Cappuyns and Swennen, 2007), anthropogenic changes (Kanno et al, 1965), identification of geotechnical parameters (Yilmaz and Karacan, 1997;Młynarek et al, 2012). One of the reasons for this is because in many older versions of classification systems -including international ones -most of the pedons developed from alluvial materials were put to the one main unit.…”

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Classification of alluvial soils - problematic issues on the examples from South Baltic Lakelands, north Poland

Świtoniak¹,

Michalski²,

Markiewicz³

2022

Soil Sci. Ann.

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Alluvial soils constitute a group of soils that is very diverse in terms of their genesis and what is the effect of it -most of properties, e.g. organic carbon content, features connected with ground or stagnating water, development of B horizons or texture. It is also refl ected in their systematic position. Currently, the Polish Soil Classifi cation (PSC, 2019) distinguishes as many as 3 types of soils developed from fl uvic materials: ordinary, chernozemic and brown alluvial soils. Some of soils with alluvial sediments strongly infl uenced by water but without diagnostic horizons can be also classifi ed as gleysols or stagnosols. The aim of the article was to check the criteria and to verify completeness of units in the rank of types and subtypes for distinguishing alluvial soils in latest version of Polish Soil Classifi cation (PSC, 2019). The study was carried out in area covered by Vistulian glaciation in Northern Poland. 87 profi les to the maximum depth of 210 cm were studied. 18 pedons belong to chernozemic alluvial soils, the most common type (48) was classifi ed as brown alluvial soils, ordinary alluvial soils occurred 11 times. Moreover, 7 pedons with fl uvic material were classifi ed as gleysols. Other 3 soils represented organic and colluvial soils. Based on the conducted research some changes in Polish Soil Classifi cation have been proposed. They are regarding the minimum thickness of fl uvic materials for classifying alluvial soils, the revision of the humus subtype, the introduction of the type of gleyzemic alluvial soils in gleyzemic order or subtype of alluvial soils in type of gleysols and subtype of waterlogged soils in chernozemic alluvial soil type. The article also addresses important issues of the origin and classifi cation of B horizons in the studied soils, and confi rmed signifi cant usefulness of soil-agricultural maps in determining the places of occurrence of alluvial soils.

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“…In recent years, indirect methods have become very popular, and there have been numerous publications that present the characteristics of pF curves as dependent on the basic physical and chemical properties [Wösten et al 1999, Gnatowski et al 2006, Hewelke et al 2015, 2018.…”

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Determination of water retention characteristics of organic soils, using the indirect filter-paper method

Oleszczuk¹,

Zając²,

Hewelke³

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The paper describes the filter-paper method as an indirect method for the estimation of the pF characteristics. In this method, no direct measurements of soil water potential (pF) are performed, but the latter is determined on the basis of the gravimetric moisture content of the filter paper, which is in contact with the analysed soil samples. Therefore, there is a need to establish a calibration equation that would express the relationship between the value of the soil water potential (pF) and the gravimetric moisture content of the filter paper. The calibration procedure was performed using standard measurement methods of determining pF curves (sand box, pressure plates) and filter paper (Whatman no 42). Based on the research conducted, calibration curves were developed for the filter-paper method, for the analysed sapric (drainic) histosoles, developed from moss and alder peats of medium (hemic) and strong (sapric) degree of decomposition, originating from the mid-basin of the Biebrza river. The proposed calibration curves were presented as 3-degree polynomial equations. The aforementioned equations can be used for the estimation of retention characteristic for sapric (drainic) histosoles, showing similar properties and comparable degree of secondary decomposition of the peat mass.

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The application of pedotransfer functions in the estimation of water retention in alluvial soils in Żuławy Wiślane, northern Poland

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References 18 publications

Influence of Abandoning Agricultural Land Use on Hydrophysical Properties of Sandy Soil

Influence of Abandoning Agricultural Land Use on Hydrophysical Properties of Sandy Soil

Classification of alluvial soils - problematic issues on the examples from South Baltic Lakelands, north Poland

Determination of water retention characteristics of organic soils, using the indirect filter-paper method

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