Impacts of Vegetation Cover on Soil Physic-chemical Properties -A Case Study in Wangdonggou Watershed[J]. Bulletin of Soiland Water Conservation, 2016, 36(1): 249-252.
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Impacts of Vegetation Cover on Soil Physic-chemical Properties -A Case Study in Wangdonggou Watershed[J]. Bulletin of Soiland Water Conservation, 2016, 36(1): 249-252. DOI: 10.13961/j.cnki.stbctb.2016.01.044.
Impacts of Vegetation Cover on Soil Physic-chemical Properties -A Case Study in Wangdonggou Watershed
[Objective] Nine runoff plots with various vegetation covers in the Wangdonggou watershed in Shaanxi Province were selected to analyze the effects of vegetation cover on the soil physical and chemical properties in order to provide support for ecological construction in Loess Plateau. [Methods] Soil bulk density was measured by using the cutting ring. Soil saturation moisture
the capillary moisture and the saturated hydraulic conductivity was measured by the constant head method. Soil organic were analyzed by the potassium dichromate external heating method. [Results] It showed that saturation moisture
capillary moisture
soil organic matter in grass and shrub land were significantly higher than that in the pure and mixed woodlands
while there was no significant change in soil bulk density and saturated hydraulic conductivity. [Conclusion] Grass combined with shrub are beneficial to maintain soil nutrition
keep water
and conserve soil. Platycladus orientali woodland are worse in improving physic-chemical properties and soil and water conservation.