Minerals are widely assumed to protect organic matter (OM) from degradation in the
environment, promoting the persistence of carbon in soil and sediments. In this Review, we …

Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides
multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to …

The current and projected anthropogenic global warming and the attendant increase in the
severity and extent of soil degradation may exacerbate the intensity and duration of drought …

Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: The Primer, Second Edition is the follow-up of this popular and
authoritative text, first published in 2001. The book provides both a primer for the novice and …

Hydrologic analyses often involve the evaluation of soil water infiltration, conductivity,
storage, and plant‐water relationships. To define the hydrologic soil water effects requires …

Soil hydraulic properties are necessary for many studies of water and solute transport but
often cannot be measured because of practical and/or financial constraints. We describe a …

The hydraulic conductivity function, which is required to solve the Richards equation, is
difficult to measure. Therefore prediction methods are frequently used where the shape of …

For the last 50 years, the consensus view among researchers has been that organic matter
(OM) has little or no effect on the available water capacity (AWC) of soil. The historical …

Water retention and hydraulic conductivity are crucial input parameters in any modelling
study on water flow and solute transport in soils. Due to inherent temporal and spatial …

We reviewed the use of the van Genuchten–Mualem (VGM) model to parameterize soil
hydraulic properties and for developing pedotransfer functions (PTFs). Analysis of literature …