A comparison of soil moisture relations between standing and clearfelled plots with burnt and unburnt harvest residue treatments of a clonal eucalypt plantation on the Zululand Coastal Plain, South Africa

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2011
Authors
Dovey S.B.
de Clercq W.
du Toit B.
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Canopy closures, Coastal plain, Data collection, Drainage rate, Eucalypt plantations, Field capacity, Forest sites, Harvest residues, Inter-rotation, Moisture depletion, Moisture fluxes, Monitoring periods, Nutrient balance, Nutrient fluxes, Nutrient loss, Nutrient status, Pest infestation, Pore clogging, Post felling, Residue burning, Residue management, Sandy soils, Slow growth, Soil carbon, Soil moisture status, Soil profiles, South Africa, Stemflow, Throughfall, Time domain reflectometry probes, Water drainage, Water flux, Crops, Forestry, Moisture determination, Nutrients, Productivity, Rain, Rotation, Soil moisture, Soil surveys, burning, clearcutting, clonal growth, coastal plain, crop residue, dicotyledon, forest management, harvesting, lysimeter, management practice, nutrient budget, plantation forestry, rainfall, sandy soil, soil carbon, soil moisture, stemflow, throughfall, time domain reflectometry, water flow, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Zululand
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Water SA
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