Groundwater nitrate removal in riparian buffer zones: a review of research progress in the past 20 years

AR Hill - Biogeochemistry, 2019 - Springer
This review evaluates research in the past 20 years focusing on groundwater nitrate removal
in the riparian zones of agricultural watersheds. Studies have reported a large range in the …

Plant age effects on soil infiltration rate during early plant establishment

AK Leung, D Boldrin, T Liang, ZY Wu… - …, 2018 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Infiltration rate affects slope stability by determining the rate of water transport to potential
failure planes. This note considers the influences of vegetation (grass and willow) …

Effects of plant growth and spacing on soil hydrological changes: a field study

CWW Ng, JJ Ni, AK Leung - Géotechnique, 2020 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Effects of plant growth on soil hydrological changes need to be considered for long-term
vegetation management of geotechnical infrastructure. Most existing studies focused on one …

Water dynamics of the root zone: rhizosphere biophysics and its control on soil hydrology

AG Bengough - Vadose Zone Journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 40% of total terrestrial precipitation transits the tiny volume of rhizosphere soil
around plant roots before being transpired, making it one of the most hydrologically active …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of soil characteristics on preferential flow of Phragmites australis community in Yellow River delta

Y Liu, Y Zhang, L Xie, S Zhao, L Dai, Z Zhang - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Wetland ecosystem, with their precious natural resources and important ecological
functions, is an integral part of the global ecosystem. Preferential flow is a form of water and …

Rainfall infiltration and soil hydrological characteristics below ancient forest, planted forest and grassland in a temperate northern climate

NAL Archer, W Otten, S Schmidt, AG Bengough… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
How rainfall infiltration rate and soil hydrological characteristics develop over time under
forests of different ages in temperate regions is poorly understood. In this study, infiltration …

Roots‐enhanced preferential flows in deciduous and coniferous Forest soils revealed by dual‐tracer experiments

Z Luo, J Niu, L Zhang, X Chen, W Zhang… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Macropores formed by roots are crucial channels for preferential flows in forest soils that are
largely responsible for water percolation and solute leaching. Using dual‐tracer experiments …

An experimental investigation to characterise soil macroporosity under different land use and land covers of northeast India

S Shougrakpam, R Sarkar, S Dutta - Journal of Earth System Science, 2010 - Springer
Saturated macropore flow is the dominant hydrological process in tropical and subtropical
hilly watersheds of northeast India. The process of infiltration into saturated macroporous …

Modeling the influence of an artificial macropore in sandy columns on flow and solute transfer

E Lamy, L Lassabatere, B Bechet, H Andrieu - Journal of hydrology, 2009 - Elsevier
Understanding and modeling both flow and solute transport within heterogeneous soils,
such as a macroporous soil, are of primary concern nowadays in tackling the problem of …

Macropores as preferential flow paths in meander bends

GT Menichino, AS Ward, ET Hester - Hydrological Processes, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Macropores are subsurface connected void spaces caused by processes such as fracture of
soils, micro‐erosion, and fauna burrows. They are common near streams (eg hyporheic and …