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Living roots increased soil water storage capacity.
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e0“Both living roots and dead roots increased the water infiltration rates in soil and also increased the water storage capacity of soil”
Title
Influence of Living and Dead Roots of Gansu Poplar on Water Infiltration and Distribution in Soil
Dashuai Zhang; Yao Dai; Lingli Wang; et al. Applied Sciences 2020. doi:10.3390/app10103593
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- Intervention effect with living roots root treatment yielded 61.31 ± 0.61 steady-state water flux.
- Intervention effect with dead roots root treatment yielded 55.97 ± 0.59 cm d−1 steady-state water flux.
- Intervention effect Living roots increased soil water infiltration.
- Intervention effect Dead roots increased soil water infiltration.
- Intervention effect Dead roots increased soil water storage capacity.
- Observation Soil water storage capacity was 0.279 without roots.
- Observation Soil water storage capacity was 0.317 with living roots.
- Observation Soil water storage capacity was 0.322 with dead roots.
- Observation Living roots contained smaller pores of 30–50 μm.
- Observation Dead roots contained larger pores of 100–1000 μm.
- Mechanism Channels on living root surfaces may explain increased soil permeability.
- Mechanism Water absorption into dead roots increased soil water storage capacity.