A review on controlled vacuum lysimeter design for soil water sampling

Farsad, Ali; Sadeghpour, Amir; Hashemi, Masoud; Battaglia, Martín Leonardo; Herbert, Stephen J.

doi:10.1016/j.eti.2019.100355

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“…Plants are typically exposed to a broad myriad of biotic and abiotic stresses, including feeding from wild animals and insects, weed infestation, hail, mechanical injury, diseases, low soil fertility, drought, salinity and others that can diminish the plant photosynthetic area, and thus, the attained total plant biomass or grain yield (Adeyemi et al, 2020; Adnan et al, 2020; Battaglia et al, 2018; Battaglia, Lee, Thomason, Fike, et al, 2019; Battaglia, Lee, Thomason, & Van Mullekom, 2019; Diatta, Fike, et al, 2020; Diatta, Thomason, et al, 2020; Farsad et al, 2019; Thomason & Battaglia, 2020) In the case of plants grown in a hot, arid or semi‐arid climate two of the main yield and biomass‐limiting stresses are salinity and drought (Saleem, Ali, Hussain, et al, 2020; Saleem, Ali, Rehman, Hasanuzzaman, et al, 2020; Zamin et al, 2019). In this context, the use of native and perennial C4 plant species, that can remain highly productive in environments with saline soils and recurrent drought periods, is an important strategy to cope against these predominant abiotic stresses in arid and semi‐arid climates (Battaglia, Fike, et al,2019; Khan, Zhang, Luo, Liu, Rizwan, et al, 2019b; Kumar, Lai, Battaglia, et al, 2019; Kumar, Lai, Kumar, et al, 2019; Mohamed et al, 2020).…”

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Negative impact of long‐term exposure of salinity and drought stress on native Tetraena mandavillei L.

Alam

Khattak

Ksiksi

et al. 2020

Physiologia Plantarum

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Tetraena mandavillei L. is a perennial shrub native to the Middle Eastern countries of Asia, which is extensively regarded as a drought-tolerant plant. However, the plant reduces growth and biomass when grown in high concentrations of sodium chloride in the soil. We conducted a pot experiment to influence the negative impact of different levels of salinity (0, 10, and 20 dSm −1 ) and drought stress (100, 80, 60, and 40% water field capacity), to study different growth-related parameters, physiological alterations and ion uptake by T. mandavillei. Both salinity and drought stress caused a negative impact by affecting several attributes of T. mandavillei, but the plants showed some resistance against drought stress conditions in terms of growth and biomass. In addition to that, we noticed that a combinatorial and individual impact of drought and salinity stress decreased photosynthetic pigments and gas exchange parameters in T. mandavillei. Results also depicted that the combination of the abiotic stress conditions drought and salinity induced reactive oxygen species (ROS), indicating that the plants undergo oxidative damaged.

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Negative impact of long‐term exposure of salinity and drought stress on native Tetraena mandavillei L.

Alam

Khattak

Ksiksi

et al. 2020

Physiologia Plantarum

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“…Continuous monitoring of the soil's hydraulic and chemical properties is well-developed in soil studies, mainly in the agricultural sector (Dabach et al, 2015;Farsad et al, 2019;Kassaye et al, 2020). A large selection of water content sensors, tensiometers, and suction lysimeters are available.…”

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Vadose Zone Monitoring as a Key to Groundwater Protection

Dahan

2020

Front. Water

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Currently, monitoring programs designed for groundwater protection are mainly based on information from observation wells. This, however, creates a paradox, since identification of pollution in well water is clear evidence that the groundwater is already polluted. The poor state of contaminated aquifers all over the world, and the inability, in practice, to fully remediate contaminated aquifers suggest that groundwater monitoring alone has failed to provide the vital information required to prevent groundwater pollution. That said, groundwater pollution initiates on the land surface, and the contaminants have to traverse the unsaturated zone, long before reaching the water table. Therefore, monitoring programs that can provide real-time information on the hydraulic and chemical state of the unsaturated zone are essential for achieving early warnings of pollution potential and providing imperative protection from pollution hazards. Currently, most of the commercially available monitoring technologies are rather limited in their capability to provide early alerts of pollution processes taking place deep in the unsaturated zone, above the water table. Accordingly, monitoring technologies for the unsaturated zone have to be engineered as “off-the-shelf” commercial products, made available for application by practitioners in all fields of hydrology. From scientific and technological points of view, such ambitions are not out of reach. Yet they require an urgent call for a revolutionary shift in monitoring focus, from the groundwater itself to the unsaturated zone above it.

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“…We tested two types of installation, vertical and horizontal, each corresponding to a specific external shape of the design (see below for details). Earlier studies primarily compared different types of lysimeters, for instance, tension versus non‐tension lysimeters, or compared lysimeters to other techniques (Cabrera Corral et al, 2016; Farsad et al, 2019). The novelty of this research lies in comparing two types of installation of the same ZTL 3D (same internal design, different external shapes), and studying the effect of the installation type on the performance of the samplers using a water bucket model (WBM) as validation.…”

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Two types of installation of 3D‐printed zero tension lysimeter for soil leaching and water bucket model validation

Ariza-Carricondo

Struyf

Roland

et al. 2022

European J Soil Science

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Quantifying and analysing leaching water is essential to understand water and nutrient cycles and the vertical transport of elements through soils. Zero tension lysimeters (ZTLs) have been widely used to capture the soil solution leaching by gravity. This study designed and evaluated a 3D‐printed ZTL (ZTL3D) with specific characteristics and materials to quantitatively capture dissolved element fluxes. By 3D‐printing the ZTLs, we were able to include specific 3D structures and precise details in the design allowing installation of samplers from the surface rather than trenches, and thus avoiding the need for installation trenches to remain open. The ZTLs3D connect directly with the surface, do not depend on secondary collectors, can be installed at any depth, and samplers are easily retractable when dismantling the field set up. The material used, Nylon 12, was tested for dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release. The ZTL3D design was printed in two different external shapes while characteristics and internal design were identical. The difference in external shape was to study the effects of two contrasting types of installation: a cylindrical sampler for vertical installation (by soil coring from the surface) and a rectangular samplers for horizontal installation (from a pit or a trench wall). We installed them at different depths (2, 30 and 75 cm) in a forest soil and conducted rainfall simulation experiments. A water bucket model (WBM), created to calculate the water drainage fluxes that the ZTLs3D should collect, reproduced very well the variation in soil water content measured by soil moisture sensors installed adjacent to the ZTLs3D at 16, 30, 50 and 75 cm depth. Drainage fluxes simulated by the WBM showed that the vertical installation performed better at collecting water at all depths than the horizontal installation, but overall the ZTLs3D failed to collect the simulated amounts of drainage water. Nonetheless, the ZTLs3D did collect leachate water, enabling their chemical analysis. Combining the concentrations in the water collected by the ZTLs3D with the modelled drainage fluxes does allow estimation of DOC‐ and elemental leaching rates. This article presents the novel design of these two types of ZTLs3D because future improvements may result in better performance, and discusses their (dis)agreement with the modelled WBM fluxes. Highlights New 3D‐printed zero tension lysimeters (ZTLs) to capture element fluxes when installed vertically (cylindrical design) or horizontally (cubic design) were tested. Two external sampler shapes were created to optimise the installation process and both collected drainage water successfully. Vertical installation ZTLs worked better than horizontal types, but neither well‐reflected drainage fluxes simulated by water bucket model (WBM). Combined with WBM, both ZTL types provided a reliable method for quantifying nutrient and organic carbon leaching at different soil depths.

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A review on controlled vacuum lysimeter design for soil water sampling

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Negative impact of long‐term exposure of salinity and drought stress on native Tetraena mandavillei L.

Negative impact of long‐term exposure of salinity and drought stress on native Tetraena mandavillei L.

Vadose Zone Monitoring as a Key to Groundwater Protection

Two types of installation of 3D‐printed zero tension lysimeter for soil leaching and water bucket model validation

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