Water storage capacities of soil under four different land uses in Hawaii

Teruo Yamamoto; Paul Duffy

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Water storage capacities of soil under four different land uses in Hawaii

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Teruo Yamamoto, Paul Duffy

Year:

1963

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

Res. Note PSW-RN-005. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 4 p.

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Abstract

Soil pore volume and pore size were correlated with land use or vegetation cover type. The top foot of forest soils had more large pores and higher water-holding capacities than that of soils under cultivation, in pasture land, or in idle grassland.

Citation

Yamamoto, Teruo; Duffy, Paul. 1963. Water storage capacities of soil under four different land uses in Hawaii. Res. Note PSW-RN-005. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 4 p.