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| Provedor de dados: |
Scientia Agricola
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Soil water content temporal-spatial variability of the surface layer of a Loess Plateau hillside in China
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| Autores: |
Hu,Wei
Shao,Ming An
Wang,Quan Jiu
Reichardt,Klaus
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| Data: |
2008-01-01
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| Ano: |
2008
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| Palavras-chave: |
Surface soil moisture
Coefficient of variation
Correlation length
Temporal stability
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| Resumo: |
Surface soil moisture exhibits an important variability in terms of spatial and temporal domains, which may result in critical uncertainties for agricultural water management. The purposes of this study were (i) to characterize the temporal dynamics and stability of the spatial variability of the surface 0-6 cm soil water content θon a hill-slope; (ii) to investigate issues related to soil moisture conditions including dominating factors on soil moisture and to the estimation of the mean θ. During a period of more than one month θwas measured on thirteen days by Frequency Domain Reflectometry using a 10 x 10 m grid of measurement points covering a 60 x 280 m domain within a hill-slope of the Loess Plateau in China. Soil water content exhibited a moderate variability for each measurement date, and the correlation length (l) for θranged from 8.4 to 27.7 m. With the soil becoming drier, l decreased, the CV% and the sampling number for accurate mean θestimation increased. Aspect, elevation, organic matter content, clay content, and bulk density were the main influencing factors, whose extent of influence weakened with decreasing θ. Based on time stability analysis and on the correlation of mean relative difference of θwith the relative difference of dominating factors, mean q values were well estimated, with a better accuracy under wetter conditions.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162008000300008
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| Editor: |
São Paulo - Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S0103-90162008000300008
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text/html
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| Fonte: |
Scientia Agricola v.65 n.3 2008
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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