Soil moisture changes after biochar application in 2018

Year, pages: 2019, 74 - 79

Biochar, a product of thermal degradation of biomass, helps to improve the hydrophysical properties of the soil. It works at soils with low quality primarily but its use in conventional agricultural temperate soils has often different effect and depends mainly on the material from which the biochar is produced, the process of pyrolysis, the soil to which the biochar is applied and last but not least, the cultivated crop. In this paper, we deal with changes in silt-loam soil moisture at plots with applied biochar in amount of 20 t/ha and at plots without biochar in 2018. The cultivated crop was spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) during the monitoring period June–July 2018. Soil moisture was measured by 5TM sensors. The results confirmed the conclusions of a number of scientific studies that soil moisture was higher at plots with biochar at about 3–8% vol. than at plots without biochar application

Vítková, J., Šurda, P. 2019. Soil moisture changes after biochar application in 2018. In Acta Hydrologica Slovaca, vol. 20, no.1, pp. 74-79. 2644-4690. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2019-0020.01.0008

Vítková, J., Šurda, P. (2019). Soil moisture changes after biochar application in 2018. Acta Hydrologica Slovaca, 20(1), 74-79. 2644-4690. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2019-0020.01.0008

Publisher: Institute of Hydrology SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 05 Bratislava, Slovakia