Effect of water and nutrient supply on root distribution in anEucalyptus globulus plantation |
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| Authors: | António Fabião Manuel Madeira Eliel Steen |
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| Institution: | 1. Instituto Superior de Agronomia, P-1399, Lisboa Codex, Portugal
2. Department of Ecology and Environmental Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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| Abstract: | Water and nutrients were supplied to anEucalyptus globulus plantation in a controlled experiment in west central Portugal. The trees were planted in a sandy soil at a spacing of 3 × 3 m. The experiment consisted of four treatments: irrigation, irrigation plus fertilization, fertilization without irrigation, and a rain fed and unfertilized control. The quantification of root biomass was carried out 13 mo after planting. When the plantation was 31 mo old, a trench was dug in the soil to uncover the distribution of the roots of individual trees. In the irrigated treatments root biomass was higher than in the control and in the fertilized plots. Differences in fine and coarse root distribution along the soil profile were also observed. In both irrigated treatments roots were concentrated along tree rows, where the irrigation tubes were dripping water or water plus nutrients. |
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