Infiltration Parameters for Rangeland Soils
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Range Management
- Vol. 42 (2) , 139-142
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3899311
Abstract
Important to the management of rangelands is knowledge of the water intake properties of their soils and the effect of soil surface and canopy cover. Using a data base of rangeland infiltration runs covering a wide range of soil and cover conditions, a procedure incorporating the effects of soil properties, soil surface cover, and vegetative canopy on the Green-Ampt hydraulic conductivity parameter was developed. Test results indicate that the estimated Green-Ampt parameters provided good predictions of the mean final infiltration rates and volumes for a variety of soil-cover situations.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: