Abstract
Moisture changes in the organic horizon of the forest soil under different tree species
Highlights
Soil moisture regime is influenced by a number of factors and has a specific dynamics and periodicity during the year (Ištoňa and Pavlenda, 2011)
We found that the site MP1 differs most significantly from others
We found that the lowest values of the soil water storage (SWS) and soil
Summary
Soil moisture regime is influenced by a number of factors and has a specific dynamics and periodicity during the year (Ištoňa and Pavlenda, 2011). The largest and most important changes in the soil moisture of the forest organic horizons occur during the growing season due to vegetation (Leathers et al, 2000). After infiltration of precipitated water into the organic horizon, it is either retained or percolate deeper to the mineral component of the forest soil profile lying below the organic horizon (Kavvadias et al, 2001). Forest soil with a well developed organic horizon has a higher ability to retain soil moisture (Zvala et al, 2018; Xing et al, 2018) than the mineral component of forest soil. A thick layer of forest organic horizon reduces evaporation from the surface and soil moisture at greater depths is less
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