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Estimation of water retention and availability in soils of Rio Grande do Sul
Dispersed information on water retention and availability in soils may be compiled in databases to generate pedotransfer functions. The objectives of this study were: to generate pedotransfer functions to estimate soil water retention based on easily measurable soil properties; to evaluate the effic...
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Published in: | Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 2009-12, Vol.33 (6), p.1547-1560 |
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Summary: | Dispersed information on water retention and availability in soils may be compiled in databases to generate pedotransfer functions. The objectives of this study were: to generate pedotransfer functions to estimate soil water retention based on easily measurable soil properties; to evaluate the efficiency of existing pedotransfer functions for different geographical regions for the estimation of water retention in soils of Rio Grande do Sul (RS); and to estimate plant-available water capacity based on soil particle-size distribution. Two databases were set up for soil properties, including water retention: one based on literature data (725 entries) and the other with soil data from an irrigation scheduling and management system (239 entries). From the literature database, pedotransfer functions were generated, nine pedofunctions available in the literature were evaluated and the plant-available water capacity was calculated. The coefficient of determination of some pedotransfer functions ranged from 0.56 to 0.66. Pedotransfer functions generated based on soils from other regions were not appropriate for estimating the water retention for RS soils. The plant-available water content varied with soil texture classes, from 0.089 kg kg-1 for the sand class to 0.191 kg kg-1 for the silty clay class. These variations were more related to sand and silt than to clay content. The soils with a greater silt/clay ratio, which were less weathered and with a greater quantity of smectite clay minerals, had high water retention and plant-available water capacity.
Informações dispersas sobre retenção e disponibilidade de água em solos podem ser agrupadas em bancos de dados para gerar funções de pedotransferência. Os objetivos do trabalho foram: gerar equações de pedotransferência para estimar a retenção de água a partir de atributos do solo de fácil obtenção; avaliar a eficiência de pedofunções existentes para várias regiões para a estimativa da retenção de água em alguns solos do RS; e estimar a disponibilidade de água em função da distribuição do tamanho das partículas dos solos. Dois bancos de dados com atributos do solo, incluindo retenção de água foram organizados: um a partir de dados da literatura (725 dados) e outro de solos de um sistema de monitoramento e manejo de irrigação (239 dados). Com o banco da literatura foram geradas funções de pedotransferência, avaliadas nove pedofunções disponíveis na literatura e calculado o teor de água disponível. As equações de ped |
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ISSN: | 0100-0683 1806-9657 0100-0683 |
DOI: | 10.1590/s0100-06832009000600004 |