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<p>Water is one of the key ecological factors that has a great impact to development and productivity of lowland species such as <italic>Quercus robur</italic>. This paper deals with water regime influence to site conditions of these species and how actually changeable soil moisture affects <italic>Q. robur</italic>. Studied area includes a protective embankment built on the river bank in order to eliminate flooding effect, which means that all needs for water these associations provide from rainfalls and groundwater. Water regime was monitored during two critical years (extremely dry and extremely wet) on four soil types – Planosol, Fluvisol and Gleysol that belong to hydromorphic (three experimental plots) and Chernozem which belongs to automorphic soils (three experimental plots), respectively. It was studied the distribution of rainfalls and groundwater during the growing seasons and how it affects total and available water amount in the soil. The main focus should be given to available water, because it is located in capillary pores and plants can utilize it. Bearing in mind rainfalls makes just 15–20% of the total water amount in the soil it is much more significant to evaluate its proportion in available water. Based on obtained results, we can deduce that much more suitable site conditions for <italic>Q. robur</italic> are present on hydromorphic soils due to much greater proportion of groundwater.</p>
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Water is one of the key ecological factors that has a great impact to development and productivity of lowland species such as Quercus robur. This paper deals with water regime influence to site conditions of these species and how actually changeable soil moisture affects Q. robur. Studied area includes a protective embankment built on the river bank in order to eliminate flooding effect, which means that all needs for water these associations provide from rainfalls and groundwater. Water regime was monitored during two critical years (extremely dry and extremely wet) on four soil types – Planosol, Fluvisol and Gleysol that belong to hydromorphic (three experimental plots) and Chernozem which belongs to automorphic soils (three experimental plots), respectively. It was studied the distribution of rainfalls and groundwater during the growing seasons and how it affects total and available water amount in the soil. The main focus should be given to available water, because it is located in capillary pores and plants can utilize it. Bearing in mind rainfalls makes just 15–20% of the total water amount in the soil it is much more significant to evaluate its proportion in available water. Based on obtained results, we can deduce that much more suitable site conditions for Q. robur are present on hydromorphic soils due to much greater proportion of groundwater.

Soil moisture regime in lowland forests – quantity and availability of water

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

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Water is one of the key ecological factors that has a great impact to development and productivity of lowland species such as Quercus robur. This paper deals...

Soil moisture regime in lowland forests – quantity and availability of water

Pubblicato online: 08 feb 2024

Pagine: 15 - 24

Ricevuto: 13 mar 2023

Accettato: 29 mag 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2023-0037

Parole chiave
Soil moisture, Available water, Groundwater, Precipitation

© 2023 Vesna Nikolić Jokanović et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Soil moisture regime in lowland forests – quantity and availability of water

Pubblicato online: 08 feb 2024

Pagine: 15 - 24

Ricevuto: 13 mar 2023

Accettato: 29 mag 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2023-0037

Parole chiaveSoil moisture, Available water, Groundwater, Precipitation

© 2023 Vesna Nikolić Jokanović et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Parole chiave
Soil moisture, Available water, Groundwater, Precipitation