Méthode pragmatique d’évaluation de la réserve en eau des stations forestières et cartographie à l’échelle régionale (Wallonie, Belgique) ; Pragmatic assessment of the water reserve of the forest sites and mapping at the regional scale (Wallonia, Belgium)

peer reviewed ; The assessment of the forest sites water availability constitutes a growing concern following the awareness of the potential impact of climate change on the soil moisture regime. At the present time, the forest managers lack tools for a quantitative estimation of the soil water reserve. This paper presents a simple estimation method that can be adopted on field by foresters. A map of this soil water reserve at the forest site scale has been established for the Southern Belgium. After the inventory of the possible techniques, the “textural method”, based on the pedotransfert cla... Mehr ...