文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Gu, Feng ¹ ; Ren, Tusheng ¹ ; Li, Baoguo ¹ ; Li, Lujiu ⁴ ;

作者机构： 1.China Agr Univ, Dept Soil & Water Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

2.Minist Agr, Key Lab Cultivated Land Conservat North China, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

3.Minist Educ, Key Lab Plant Soil Interact, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

4.Anhui Acad Agr Sci, Inst Soil & Fertilizer, Hefei 230031, Anhui, Peoples R China

期刊名称：SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL （ 影响因子：2.307； 五年影响因子：2.832 ）

ISSN： 0361-5995

年卷期： 2017 年 81 卷 6 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： The soil water retention curve (WRC) is one of the most important properties in soil hydraulic studies. Current studies normally focus on fine soils, ignoring the water-holding capacity of coarse fragments (>2 mm) and their effects on soil available water content (AWC). Calcareous concretions (CC) are coarse inclusions distributed widely in soils around the world. This study was conducted to quantify the effects of the proportion and size of CCs on the soil WRC and AWC of a calcic vertisol. The WRCs of CCs were measured using the sand box and ceramic plate method, and the WRCs of fine soils and soil-CC mixtures of various sizes (2-5, 5-8, and 8-30) and proportions (5, 10, 15, and 30% on a total mass basis) of CC were determined with the centrifuge method. The WRCs were fitted with the van Genuchten equation. The results showed that CCs retained a considerable amount of water. The saturated water contents of CCs of 2- to 5-, 5- to 8- and 8- to 30-mm were 0.251, 0.220, and 0.196 cm(3) cm(-3), respectively. The addition of CCs changed the WRC and pore distribution of soils significantly. The AWC of soil-CC mixtures decreased with increasing CC content. A linear equation, which included the fraction of CCs and water content in CCs, was proposed to estimate the AWC of soils containing CCs accurately. Accounting for CCs in the calcic vertisol improved the accuracy of soil hydraulic property estimations.