<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper contains the method and results of calculation evapotranspiration and its structure - transpiration and evaporation from traditionally tilled and mulched soil. The data considered indicate that in the arid regions of territory under study the evapotranspiration when soil is mulched does not change significantly and only the relation between the transpiration and soil evaporation changes. In the wet regions, evapotranspiration decreases when the soil is mulched which can result in a certain disturbance of the natural structure of the hydrological cycle and possible overmoistening soils.</p></abstract>

This paper contains the method and results of calculation evapotranspiration and its structure - transpiration and evaporation from traditionally tilled and mulched soil. The data considered indicate that in the arid regions of territory under study the evapotranspiration when soil is mulched does not change significantly and only the relation between the transpiration and soil evaporation changes. In the wet regions, evapotranspiration decreases when the soil is mulched which can result in a certain disturbance of the natural structure of the hydrological cycle and possible overmoistening soils.

Evapotranspiration changes in the forest-steppe and steppe zones under soil mulching

Water Problems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkin St. 3, 119333 Moscow, Russia

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

This paper contains the method and results of calculation evapotranspiration and its structure - transpiration and evaporation from traditionally tilled and...

Evapotranspiration changes in the forest-steppe and steppe zones under soil mulching

Published Online: Jun 01, 2013

Page range: 140 - 145

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2013-0019

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