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Some Moisture and Salinity Relationships in Peat Soils 1
Author(s) -
Campbell R. B.,
Richards L. A.
Publication year - 1950
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1950.00021962004200120002x
Subject(s) - principal (computer security) , soil water , salinity , citation , peat , environmental science , library science , archaeology , soil science , geography , ecology , computer science , biology , operating system
at 25°C -__ CAT soils are developed in low lying and poorly Pd rained areas, and in such areas salinity sometimes interferes with crop production. Any method for evaluating soil salinity in relation to crop yields must take into consideration both the salt content and moisture content, because both Factors influence the concentration of the soil solution. It is the purpose of this paper to report some moisture measurements on peat soils and to relate these measurements to methods for salinity appraisal. Fuestal and Eyers (1) determined the moisture equivalent and the wilting percentage on a group ot peat soils and peat plus mineral soil mixtures. Their experimental results showed that the ratio of moisture equivalent to wilting percentage ranged from 1.8 to 2.1, which is in the range most commonly found for mineral soils. L. A. Richards and B. D. Wilson (2) and also B. D.