“…The soils were collected from the plowed layer (0–20 cm), air‐dried for 2 wk, crumbled, and sieved using a 4‐mm sieve (He et al.,
2017). Water content of soil samples were then determined using the sieved soil, and Equation () was used to calculate the water to add to each sample to achieve the required water content:
where m w represents the water to add to the sample (g), m 0 represents the weight of each sample (g), w 0 represents the determined water content (g −1 ), and w i represents the required water content (g −1 ).…”