Soil moisture variability in a temperate deciduous forest: Insights from electrical resistivity and throughfall data

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1367-1381

  Ma, Yuteng ^a   Van Dam, Remke L ^a,b   Jayawickreme, Dushmantha H ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deciduous forests; Electrical resistivity; Forest ecology; Soil moisture; Throughfall

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FORESTRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION; WATER RESOURCES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY IMAGING (ERI); FOREST ECOLOGY; SOIL TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; THROUGHFALL;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWING SEASON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATE FOREST; THROUGHFALL; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER RESOURCE;

FORESTRY; MOISTURE; PLANTS; PYROMETRY; RESISTIVITY; SOIL; WATER RESOURCES;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901737707     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3362-y     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Ahmed YAR, Pichler V, Homolak M, Gomoryova E, Nagy D, Pichlerova M, Gregor J (2012) High organic carbon stock in a karstic soil of the Middle-European Forest Province persists after centuries-long agroforestry management. Eur J For Res 131: 1669-1680.
2. Asbjornsen H, Goldsmith GR, Alvarado-Barrientos MS, Rebel K, van Osch FP, Rietkerk M, Chen J, Gotsch S, Tobón C, Geissert DR, Gómez-Tagle A, Vache K, Dawson TE (2011) Ecohydrological advances and applications in plant-water relations research: a review. J Plant Ecol 4: 3-22.
3. Asner GP, Scurlock JMO, Hicke JA (2003) Global synthesis of leaf area index observations: implications for ecological and remote sensing studies. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 12: 191-205.
4. Basso B, Fiorentino C, Cammarano D, Cafiero G, Dardanelli J (2012) Analysis of rainfall distribution on spatial and temporal patterns of wheat yield in Mediterranean environment. Eur J Agron 41: 52-65.
5. Borken W, Savage K, Davidson EA, Trumbore SE (2006) Effects of experimental drought on soil respiration and radiocarbon efflux from a temperate forest soil. Glob Change Biol 12: 177-193.
6. Bréda N, Granier A, Barataud F, Moyne C (1995) Soil water dynamics in an oak stand I. Soil moisture, water potentials and water uptake by roots. Plant Soil 172: 17-27.
7. Bréda N, Huc R, Granier A, Dreyer E (2006) Temperate forest trees and stands under severe drought: a review of ecophysiological responses, adaptation processes and long-term consequences. Ann Forest Sci 63: 625-644.
8. Bryant ML, Bhat S, Jacobs JM (2005) Measurements and modeling of throughfall variability for five forest communities in the southeastern US. J Hydrol 312: 95-108.
9. Carlyle-Moses DE, Flores Laureano JS, Price AG (2004) Throughfall and throughfall spatial variability in Madrean oak forest communities of northeastern Mexico. J Hydrol 297: 124-135.
10. Chaplot V, Lorentz S, Podwojewskia P, Jewitt G (2010) Digital mapping of A-horizon thickness using the correlation between various soil properties and soil apparent electrical resistivity. Geoderma 157: 154-164.
11. Chen JM, Rich PM, Gower ST, Norman JM, Plummer S (1997) Leaf area index of boreal forests: theory, techniques, and measurements. J Geophys Res 102: 29429-29443.
12. Constable SC, Parker RL, Constable CG (1987) Occams inversion: a practical algorithm for generating smooth models from electromagnetic sounding data. Geophysics 52: 289-300.
13. Crockford RH, Richardson DP (2000) Partitioning of rainfall into throughfall, stemflow and interception: effect of forest type, ground cover and climate. Hydrol Process 14: 2903-2920.
14. Daily W, Ramirez A, Binley A, LaBrecque D (2005) Electrical resistance tomography-theory and practice. In: Butler DK (ed) Investigations in geophysics. Society of exploration geophysics, vol 13. p 525.
15. Dunkerley DA (2010) A new method for determining the throughfall fraction and throughfall depth in vegetation canopies. J Hydrol 385: 65-75.
16. Garcia-Montiel DC, Coe MT, Cruz MP, Ferreira JN, da Silva EM, Davidson EA (2008) Estimating seasonal changes in volumetric soil water content at landscape scales in a savanna ecosystem using two-dimensional resistivity profiling. Earth Interact 12: 1-25.
17. Garre S, Coteur I, Wongleecharoen C, Kongkaew T, Diels J, Vanderborght J (2013) Noninvasive monitoring of soil water dynamics in mixed cropping systems: a case study in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand. Vadose Zone Journal 12.
18. Griffiths RP, Madritch MD, Swanson AK (2009) The effects of topography on forest soil characteristics in the Oregon Cascade Mountains (USA): implications for the effects of climate change on soil properties. For Ecol Manag 257: 1-7.
19. Hadzick ZZ, Guber AK, Pachepsky YA, Hill RL (2011) Pedotransfer functions in soil electrical resistivity estimation. Geoderma 164: 195-202.
20. Hansen MC, Defries RS, Townshend JRG, Sohlberg R (2000) Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach. Int J Remote Sens 21: 1331-1364.
21. Hayley K, Bentley LR, Gharibi M, Nightingale M (2007) Low temperature dependence of electrical resistivity: implications for near surface geophysical monitoring. Geophys Res Lett 34: L18402.
22. He L, Ivanov VY, Bohrer G, Maurer KD, Vogel CS, Moghaddam M (2014) Effects of fine-scale soil moisture and canopy heterogeneity on energy and water fluxes in a northern temperate mixed forest. Agric For Meteorol 184: 243-256.
23. Islami N, Taib S, Yusoff I, Ghani AA (2011) Time lapse chemical fertilizer monitoring in agriculture sandy soil. Int J Environ Sci Technol 8: 765-780.
24. Jayawickreme DH, van Dam RL, Hyndman DW (2008) Subsurface imaging of vegetation, climate and root-zone moisture interactions. Geophys Res Lett 35: L18404.
25. Jayawickreme DH, van Dam RL, Hyndman DW (2010) Hydrological consequences of land-cover change: quantifying the influence of plants on soil moisture with time-lapse electrical resistivity. Geophysics 75: 43-50.
26. Jayawickreme DH, Santoni CS, Kim JH, Jobbagy EG, Jackson RB (2011) Changes in hydrology and salinity accompanying a century of agricultural conversion in Argentina. Ecol Appl 21: 2367-2379.
27. Jayawickreme DH, Jobbágy EG, Jackson RB (2014) Geophysical subsurface imaging for ecological applications. New Phytol 201: 1170-1175.
28. Johnson RC (1990) The interception, throughfall and stemflow in a forest in highland Scotland and the comparison with other upland forests in the UK. J Hydrol 118: 281-287.
29. Keddy PA (1996) Ecological properties for the evaluation, management, and restoration of temperate deciduous forest ecosystems. Ecol Appl 6: 748-762.
30. Klaassen W (2001) Evaporation from rain-wetted forest in relation to canopy wetness, canopy cover, and net radiation. Water Resour Res 37: 3227-3236.
31. Link TE, Unsworth M, Marks D (2004) The dynamics of rainfall interception by a seasonal temperate rainforest. Agric For Meteorol 124: 171-191.
32. Lovett GM, Nolan SS, Driscoll CT, Fahey TJ (1996) Factors regulating throughfall flux in a new New-Hampshire forested landscape. Can J For Res 26: 2134-2144.
33. Lusch DP, Stanley KE, Schaetzl RJ, Kendall AD, van Dam RL, Nielsen A, Blumer BE, Hobbs TC, Archer JK, Holmstadt JLF, May CL (2009) Characterization and mapping of patterned ground in the Saginaw Lowlands, Michigan: possible evidence for Late-Wisconsin permafrost. Ann Assoc Am Geogr 99: 1-22.
34. McElrone AJ, Choat B, Gambetta GA, Brodersen CR (2013) Water uptake and transport in vascular plants. Nat Educ Knowl 4: 6.
35. McKenney-Easterling M (2000) The potential impacts of climate change and variability on forests and forestry in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Clim Res 14: 195-206.
36. Michalzik B, Kalbitz K, Park JH, Solinger S, Matzner E (2001) Fluxes and concentrations of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen: a synthesis for temperate forests. Biogeochemistry 52: 173-205.
37. Michot D, Benderitter Y, Dorigny A, Nicoullaud B, King D, Tabbagh A (2003) Spatial and temporal monitoring of soil water content with an irrigated corn crop cover using surface electrical resistivity tomography. Water Resour Res 39: 1138.
38. Miller CR, Routh PS, Brosten TR, McNamara JP (2008) Application of time-lapse ERT imaging to watershed characterization. Geophysics 73: G7-G17.
39. Montgomery RA, Chazdon RL (2001) Forest structure, canopy architecture, and light transmittance in tropical wet forests. Ecology 82: 2707-2718.
40. Musgrave H, Binley A (2011) Revealing the temporal dynamics of subsurface temperature in a wetland using time-lapse geophysics. J Hydrol 396: 258-266.
41. Nijland W, van der Meijde M, Addink E, de Jong SM (2010) Detection of soil moisture and vegetation water abstraction in a Mediterranean natural area using electrical resistivity tomography. Catena 81: 209-216.
42. Nosetto MD, Acosta AM, Jayawickreme DH, Ballesteros SI, Jackson RB, Jobbágy EG (2013) Land-use and topography shape soil and groundwater salinity in central Argentina. Agric Water Manag 129: 120-129.
43. Omonode RA, Vyn TJ (2006) Spatial dependence and relationships of electrical conductivity to soil organic matter, phosphorus, and potassium. Soil Sci 171: 223-238.
44. Peng W, Song T, Zeng F, Wang K, Du H, Lu S (2013) Spatial distribution of surface soil water content under different vegetation types in northwest Guangxi, China. Environ Earth Sci 69: 2699-2708.
45. Pepin S, Livingston NJ (1995) Temperature-dependent measurement errors in time domain reflectometry determinations of soil water. Soil Sci Soc Am J 59: 38-43.
46. Reed DD, Desanker PV (1992) Ecological implications of projected climate change scenarios in forest ecosystems in northern Michigan, USA. Int J Biometeorol 36: 99-107.
47. Robinson JL, Slater LD, Schafer KVR (2012) Evidence for spatial variability in hydraulic redistribution within an oak-pine forest from resistivity imaging. J Hydrol 430: 69-79.
48. Schäfer KVR, Oren R, Lai C-T, Katul GG (2002) Hydrologic balance in an intact temperate forest ecosystem under ambient and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration. Glob Change Biol 8: 895-911.
49. Schliemann SA, Bockheim JG (2014) Influence of gap size on carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycling in Northern hardwood forests of the Upper Peninsula, Michigan. Plant Soil 377: 323-335.
50. Sen PN, Goode PA (1992) Influence of temperature on electrical conductivity of shaly sands. Geophysics 57: 89-96.
51. Wang Y, Zhu H, Li Y (2013) Spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture, microbial biomass carbon and soil respiration at stand scale of an arid scrubland. Environ Earth Sci 70: 3217-3224.
52. Wardle DA, Walker LR, Bardgett RD (2004) Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences. Science 305: 509-513.
53. Wen J (1999) Evolution of eastern Asian and eastern North American disjunct distributions in flowering plants. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 30: 421-455.
54. Wilson KB, Hanson PJ, Baldocchi DD (2000) Factors controlling evaporation and energy partitioning beneath a deciduous forest over an annual cycle. Agric For Meteorol 102: 83-103.
55. Wullschleger SD, Meinzer FC, Vertessy RA (1998) A review of whole-plant water use studies in trees. Tree Physiol 18: 499-512.
56. Xu S, Liu LL, Sayer EJ (2013) Variability of above-ground litter inputs alters soil physicochemical and biological processes: a meta-analysis of litterfall-manipulation experiments. Biogeosciences 10: 7423-7433.
57. Yamakawa Y, Kosugi K, Katsura S, Masaoka N, Mizuyama T (2012) Spatial and temporal monitoring of water content in weathered granitic bedrock using electrical resistivity imaging. Vadose Zone J 11. doi: 10. 2136/vzj2011. 0029.
58. Zhou QY, Shimada J, Sato A (2001) Three-dimensional spatial and temporal monitoring of soil water content using electrical resistivity tomography. Water Resour Res 37: 273-285.