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Plant-available soil water capacity: estimation methods and implications

Bruno Montoani Silva, Érika Andressa da Silva, Geraldo César de Oliveira, Mozart Martins Ferreira, Milson Evaldo Serafim

01/Apr/2014

The plant-available water capacity of the soil is defined as the water content between field capacity and wilting point, and has wide practical application in planning the land use. In a representative profile of the Cerrado Oxisol, methods for estimating the wilting point were studied and compared, using a WP4-T psychrometer and Richards chamber for undisturbed and disturbed samples. In addition, the field capacity was estimated by the water content at 6, 10, 33 kPa and by the inflection point […]