Flood depth has been frequently used to explain the distribution of plant species in seasonally flooded grasslands, but its relation with vegetation production has remained ambiguous. The relationship between flooding and above-ground biomass at the end of the flooding season and during the dry seasonwas studied to assess the impact of reflooding on the Logone floodplain, Cameroon. Above-ground...

Nutrient contamination of surface waters and groundwaters is an issue of growing importance as the risks associated with agricultural run-off escalate due to increasing demands on global food production. In this study, the influence of surface water–groundwater interaction on the nutrient flux in a lowland karst catchment was investigated with the aid of alkalinity sampling and a hydrological m...

Phosphorus (P) retention is an important ecosystem service provided by sediments and soils. However, when shallow aquatic sediments and poorly drained soils dry and re-flood, they can be a source, rather than a sink, of P. Using experimental drying and re-flooding in the laboratory, we assessed the resultant sediment–water P exchange in a biogeochemically diverse set of sediments from 16 sites ...

Woody perennials subjected to root oxygen-stress often respond with varying levels of reduced assimilation and leaf gas exchange. Yet in most of these studies, seedlings grown in pots were subjected to experimental conditions that rarely exist in nature for mature trees. To determine if flooding mature orchard-grown pecan (Carya illinoiensis (Wangh) K. Koch) results in a similar depressed photo...

The effects of root zone temperature (RZT) and flooding on physiology and growth of Annona glabra L. (pond apple) and A. muricata L. (soursop) were investigated. Trees planted in containers were exposed to RZTs of 5, 10, 20, 25 or 35 degrees C in controlled root temperature chambers. Trees at each RZT were either non-flooded (control) or continuously flooded. There were four replications over t...

The aim of this research was to study the effect of paclobutrazol pretreatment on the changes of antioxidative enzymes and antioxidants in the flooding-stressed sweetpotato Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. ‘Tainung 57’ was grown in plastic boxes in a screenhouse and maintained in optimal water conditions for 45 days followed by PBZ treatments (0 and 0.5 mg/plant) for 1 day. Then flooding was induced b...

rameterized for a given porous medium by slope and intercept values obtained through field calibration (HigThe neutron thermalization method for soil water content measurenett and Evett, 2002). For probe designs common in the ment is well established as being accurate for deep soil profile measurements. However, the method has been criticized as inaccurate for 1960s, about 95% of the measured s...