Why We Should Include Soil Structural Dynamics of Agricultural Soils in Hydrological Models
Chandrasekhar, Parvathy, Kreiselmeier, Janis, Schwen, Andreas, Weninger, Thomas, Julich, Stefan, Feger, Karl-Heinz and Schwärzel, Kai, (2018). Why We Should Include Soil Structural Dynamics of Agricultural Soils in Hydrological Models. Water, 10(12), 1-18
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Sub-type Journal article Author Chandrasekhar, Parvathy
Kreiselmeier, Janis
Schwen, Andreas
Weninger, Thomas
Julich, Stefan
Feger, Karl-Heinz
Schwärzel, KaiTitle Why We Should Include Soil Structural Dynamics of Agricultural Soils in Hydrological Models Appearing in Water Volume 10 Issue No. 12 Publication Date 2018-12-15 Place of Publication Basel Publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Start page 1 End page 18 Language eng Abstract Surface soil structure is sensitive to natural and anthropogenic impacts that alter soil hydraulic properties (SHP). These alterations have distinct consequences on the water cycle. In this review, we summarized published findings on the quantitative effects of different agricultural management practices on SHP and the subsequent response of the water balance components. Generally, immediately after tillage, soils show a high abundance of large pores, which are temporally unstable and collapse due to environmental factors like rainfall. Nevertheless, most hydrological modeling studies consider SHP as temporally constant when predicting the flow of water and solutes in the atmosphere-plant-soil system. There have been some developments in mathematical approaches to capture the temporal dynamics of soil pore space. We applied one such pore evolution model to two datasets to evaluate its suitability to predict soil pore space dynamics after disturbance. Lack of knowledge on how dispersion of pore size distribution behaves after tillage may have led to over-estimation of some values predicted by the model. Nevertheless, we found that the model predicted the evolution of soil pore space reasonably well (r2 > 0.80 in most cases). The limiting factor to efficiently calibrate and apply such modeling tools is not in the theoretical part but rather the lack of adequate soil structural and hydrologic data. Keyword Temporal dynamics
Soil hydraulic properties
Soil structure
Tillage effects
Pore size distributionCopyright Holder The Authors Copyright Year 2018 Copyright type Creative commons DOI 10.3390/w10121862 -
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