Publication date: 1 May 2016
Source:Geoderma, Volume 269
Author(s): Langston A. Simmons, S.H. Anderson
Previous studies have shown that once compacted, forest soils often recover slowly over many decades to pre-disturbed levels for soil properties such as bulk density or penetrometer resistance. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of selected harvesting techniques on soil physical and hydraulic properties. The effects of logging roads, log landing areas, and logged areas on soil properties of water retention, saturated hydraulic conductivity (KSat ), pore-size distributions, and bulk density were investigated on harvested sites within the Mark Twain National Forest in Callaway County, Missouri, USA on claypan landscape with a moderately well-drained Keswick soil (fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs). Soil cores (7.6Sat was significantly lower (PSat values occurred among treatments at the deepest sampling depth (30 to 40
Source:Geoderma, Volume 269
Author(s): Langston A. Simmons, S.H. Anderson