Water Infiltration Into Soils

Progress in global ecological modelling

“…The pioneering work included models in forestry (Reineke, 1933;Glock, 1937), fisheries (Shaw and Grushkin, 1957), agriculture (Van Rysselberge and Jeener, 1957;Dingle et al, 1959), meteorology (Berkofsky and Shapiro, 1961;Keeling, 1961) and hydrology (Parr and Bertrand, 1960;Smith and Wischmeier, 1962).…”

Berm Method for Quantification of Infiltration at the Plot Scale in High Conductivity Soils

“…The standard method for field measurement of infiltration is a double ring infiltrometer (ASTM D3385 2009;Marshall and Stirk 1950;Angulo-Jaramillo et al 2000), with the inner ring typically limited to a diameter of 30 cm. Approaches using rainfallsimulator infiltrometers have been proposed (Adams et al 1957;Parr and Bertrand 1960), but typically these systems measure infiltration rates over a small area (approximately 15 cm). Haws et al (2004) measured infiltration rates using nested infiltrometers at different spatial scales, including 20 × 20, 60 × 60, and 100 × 100 cm 2 infiltrometers.…”

Long‐term Changes in Soil Macro‐ and Micromorphological Properties Under the Influence of Peat Debris

“…ORGANIC matter is frequently added to topsoils to maintain and improve structure (Emerson, 1959;Harris et al, 1966;Greenland, 1965a,b); to increase the water holding capacity of sandy soils (Pearson, 1966); to change the porosity and permeability of heavy clay soils (Parr and Bertrand, 1960), and to enhance cation exchange properties (Allison, 1973;Broadbent, 1955;Helling et al, 1964). Organic matter is added naturally as leaves, stems, roots, etc., and artificially by green manuring, application of farmyard manure, seaweed, etc.…”