ECOPICS_Mx_Water infiltration of the soils from Pico de Orizaba Protected Park.

ECOPICS Project : In situ Infiltration tests  

Field campaign June 2018 by Beatriz Marin-Castro, Eduardo Hernández Hernández  

Last modification : February 2019 by Beatriz E. Marín-Castro

The value of Kfs was calculated according to the method of Wu2 (Wu et al., 1999), using a quasi-steady infiltration rate in a single ring infiltrometer (Fig. 1).

Each plot has an unique name made of :

Altitudinal band : from 3400 to 4400

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SWC0 and SWCf are mean soil water content before and after the infiltration test, made with a TDR

Kfs is the mean hydraulic conductivity (cm/h) 

Ksat is the laboratory saturated hydraulic conductivity

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For more information about the method : 

Wu, L., Pan, L., Mitchell, J., & Sanden, B. (1999). Measuring saturated hydraulic conductivity using a generalized solution for single-ring infiltrometers. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 63(4), 788-792.

Marín-Castro B.E., Geissert D., Negrete-Yankelevich S., & Gómez-Tagle Chávez A. 2016. Spatial distribution of hydraulic conductivity in soils of secondary tropical montane cloud forests and shade coffee agroecosystems. Geoderma. 283, p. 57‐67. Data fo