Soil Water Repellency

Dear Colleagues,

Soil water repellency is a manifestation of interactions between water and hydrophobic organic compounds in the soil. These interactions can prevent water infiltration to soil capillary pores or slow infiltration in sub-critical water repellency. The resultant severity of water repellency depends on soil’s physical, chemical, and biological properties, and external factors such as climate, land-use, vegetation, and wildfires. This repellency can have significant consequences, including increased susceptibility to surface runoff and erosion, increased drought stress, uneven plant germination, reduced agricultural production, preferential finger-flow, and accelerated contaminant transport.

This Special Issue is open to an advanced research on the causes and consequences of soil water repellency and sub-critical water repellency, including new insights into the theory of water repellent soil infiltration and the modelling of the processes involved. Contributions describing novel methods of assessing soil water repellency at different scales and research results for the alleviation of the severity of soil water repellency are also welcome.

Prof. Pavel Dlapa
Dr. Tomáš Orfánus
Guest Editors

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