Review Paper on Hydropedology

Author: Gagandeep Kaur and Kamini Kumari

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Abstract

A growing body of research suggests that integrating classical pedology, soil physics, and hydrology might produce synergy that could improve integrated investigations of soil-water connections at various geographical and temporal scales. In order to solve (i) knowledge gaps between pedology, soil physics, and hydrology; (ii) multiscale bridging from microscopic to mesoscopic and macroscopic levels; and (iii) data translations from soil survey data-bases into soil hydraulic information, hydropedology is proposed as such a bridge. The quantification of soil structure, preferential flow modelling, landscape hydrology, soil spatial and temporal variability, the quantitative use of field soil morphology for inferring soil hydrology, the mechanisms governing individual and inter-active soil-water processes at multiple scales, pedotransfer functions (PTFs), and other topics are among the areas where knowledge is lacking. To relate processes happening at microscopic (e.g., pores and aggregates), mesoscopic (e.g., pedons and catenas), and macroscopic (e.g., watersheds, regional, and global) levels, hydropedology incorporates the pedon and landscape concepts. Hydropedology also enables the data bridge among soil sampling datasets and the soil hydraulic data required in computational models using methods like PTFs. The integration of scales, data, and specialties is one of hydropedology's theoretically distinctive benefits to integrated soil and water sciences. Hydropedology is expected to help us better comprehend a range of societally significant environmental, ecological, agricultural, and natural resource challenges. They involve precision agriculture, climate change, soil quality, landscape dynamics, watershed management, nutrient cycling, pollutant fate, and the way an ecosystem works. Challenges in hydropedology include fragmented interdisciplinary presentation in soil science and limitations in global soil databases for fully capturing dynamic soil behavior, emphasizing the importance of field validation in SDG-related studies

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Hydropedology, Characteristics, Applications, Functions, Challenges

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Gagandeep Kaur and Kamini Kumari (2024). Review Paper on Hydropedology. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 16(5): 22-29.