Relationship between Very Fine Root Distribution and Soil Water Content in Pre- and Post-Harvest Areas of Two Coniferous Tree Species
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Site
2.2. Sampling Design and Soil Collection
2.3. Experiments
2.3.1. Soil Experiments
2.3.2. Root Experiments
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Soil Volumetric Water Content
3.2. Root Characteristics
3.2.1. Biomass Density
3.2.2. Length Density
3.2.3. Specific Root Length
3.3. Soil Water Content Relationships with Root Characteristics
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Tree Species | Cryptomeria Japonica | Chamaecyparis Obtusa | ||||||||||
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Plots | Intact Tree | Cut Tree | Intact Tree | Cut Tree | ||||||||
Soil depth (cm) | 0–5 | 5–10 | 10–30 | 0–5 | 5–10 | 10–30 | 0–5 | 5–10 | 10–30 | 0–5 | 5–10 | 10–30 |
Sand (%) | 63.13 | 61.11 | 47.56 | 70.03 | 60.92 | 55.78 | 75.14 | 59.54 | 61.47 | 73.08 | 65.61 | 55.96 |
Clay (%) | 10.94 | 13.26 | 25.53 | 9.72 | 14.41 | 15.72 | 9.28 | 15.17 | 12.60 | 11.78 | 13.00 | 15.92 |
Soil bulk density | 1.06 | 1.09 | 1.23 | 0.87 | 1.05 | 1.13 | 0.91 | 1.04 | 1.18 | 0.86 | 1.02 | 1.15 |
Soil organic matter | 12.99 | 9.21 | 8.11 | 11.66 | 8.86 | 7.29 | 13.07 | 8.59 | 7.42 | 14.22 | 10.21 | 8.00 |
Ca2+ | 11.08 | 5.92 | 3.07 | 14.51 | 9.61 | 5.97 | 2.87 | 2.40 | 3.20 | 5.35 | 5.19 | 4.96 |
Soil pH (KCl) | 4.03 | 3.92 | 3.80 | 4.30 | 4.08 | 3.87 | 3.47 | 3.59 | 3.74 | 3.71 | 3.82 | 3.95 |
Soil water repellency * | 1.80 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.05 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.10 | 3.60 | 0.0 | 11.65 | 3.50 | 0.0 |
Soil hydraulic conductivity | 9.59 | – | – | 13.51 | – | – | 2.17 | – | – | 2.75 | – | – |
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Farahnak, M.; Mitsuyasu, K.; Hishi, T.; Katayama, A.; Chiwa, M.; Jeong, S.; Otsuki, K.; Sadeghi, S.M.M.; Kume, A. Relationship between Very Fine Root Distribution and Soil Water Content in Pre- and Post-Harvest Areas of Two Coniferous Tree Species. Forests 2020, 11, 1227. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11111227
Farahnak M, Mitsuyasu K, Hishi T, Katayama A, Chiwa M, Jeong S, Otsuki K, Sadeghi SMM, Kume A. Relationship between Very Fine Root Distribution and Soil Water Content in Pre- and Post-Harvest Areas of Two Coniferous Tree Species. Forests. 2020; 11(11):1227. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11111227
Chicago/Turabian StyleFarahnak, Moein, Keiji Mitsuyasu, Takuo Hishi, Ayumi Katayama, Masaaki Chiwa, Seonghun Jeong, Kyoichi Otsuki, Seyed Mohammad Moein Sadeghi, and Atsushi Kume. 2020. "Relationship between Very Fine Root Distribution and Soil Water Content in Pre- and Post-Harvest Areas of Two Coniferous Tree Species" Forests 11, no. 11: 1227. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11111227