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Estimation of water retention and availability in soils of Rio Grande do Sul

José Miguel Reichert, Jackson Adriano Albuquerque, Douglas Rodrigo Kaiser, Dalvan José Reinert, Felipe Lavarda Urach, Reimar Carlesso

01/Dec/2009

Dispersed information on water retention and availability in soils may be compiled in databases to generate pedotransfer functions. The objectives of this study were: to generate pedotransfer functions to estimate soil water retention based on easily measurable soil properties; to evaluate the efficiency of existing pedotransfer functions for different geographical regions for the estimation of water retention in soils of Rio Grande do Sul (RS); and to estimate plant-available water capacity based on soil particle-size distribution. Two databases were set […]