Physical characteristics and potential use of humofluvisol in the protected area of alluvial plain
2012
Pekeč, Saša (Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, Novi Sad (Serbia)) | Orlović, Saša (Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, Novi Sad (Serbia)) | Ivanišević, Petar (Institute for Lowland Forestry and Environment, Novi Sad (Serbia)) | Kovačević, Branislav (Institute for Lowland Forestry and Environment, Novi Sad (Serbia)) | Katanić, Marina (Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, Novi Sad (Serbia)) | Galović, Vladislava (Institute of Lowland Forestry and Enviroment, Novi Sad (Serbia)) | Stojnić, Srđan (Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, Novi Sad (Serbia))
Humofluvisol soils spread out in the central part of the alluvial plain, and have a distinctive morphological structure. In studied soil ratio of the total sand and total clay was 61.64% and 38.36% respectively. Textural class of this soil was clay in surface horizons and sandy loam to sand in deeper horizons. Total porosity of investigated humofluvisol was on average 52.21%, while the value of the water accessible to plants was from 9.05 to 31.11 vol.%. The vertical permeability had different values with the depth of the soil profile and ranged from 1.3x10- 3 to 8.9x10-5 cm/sec. Capillary rise, tested under laboratory conditions related to different horizons, had values from 12.7 to 24.9 cm. Based on the content of pores studied soil had the largest share of medium pores represented with 19.25 vol.%, while the coarse and fine pores were presented with 16.25 vol.% and 16.72 vol.%. Good supply of groundwater, soil moisture and favorable water-air condition point out that this soil has high potential for growing of soft broadleaves, primarily poplar cultivars.
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