Claim · model-written summary
Permanent banks around mature trees wetted every 2–3 weeks had maximum root proliferation.
- Taxon
- treese0
- Treatment
- permanent bankse0
- Outcome
- root proliferatione0
- Direction
- Maximume0
- Value
- every 2-3 weekse0
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Verbatim
e0“Maximum root proliferation occurred in permanent banks raised around mature trees, where the banks were wetted by capillarity every 2-3 weeks.”
Title
WW Emerson; RC Foster; JM Tisdall; et al. Australian Journal of Soil Research 1994. doi:10.1071/sr9940939
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- Observation At 1% carbon or less, few orchard roots occurred and soil was severely compacted with weak bonding.
- Observation Root proliferation, porosity and clay bonding peaked near 2.2% carbon.
- Observation At 3–4% carbon, few roots occurred despite strong bonding, and soil was compacted.
- Mechanism High soil carbon was interpreted to embed mineral matrix in gel and restrict root water access through penetration resistance.
- Mechanism Low carbon inhibited root growth through high bulk density.