Soil moisture: A central and unifying theme in physical geography
Soil moisture: A central and unifying theme in physical geography
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DOI：
10.1177/0309133310386514
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发表时间：
2011-02-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Nelson, Frederick E.
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作者：
Legates, David R.;Mahmood, Rezaul;Nelson, Frederick E.
土壤水分是地球系统的重要组成部分，在自然地理学的各个分支领域中起着综合作用。这篇论文不仅强调了土壤湿度如何影响大气、地貌、水文和生物过程，而且还强调了土壤湿度位于这些科学探究领域的交叉点。土壤湿度对地表过程的影响使自然地理学的各个子领域之间产生了明显的协同关系。土壤水分的分散和粘聚特性也使其成为区域和小气候分析、景观剥蚀和风化变化、径流生成和分配、物质浪费和泥沙运输的重要变量。因此，本文呼吁将土壤水分研究作为自然地理学的一个完整而统一的主题。
Soil moisture is a critical component of the earth system and plays an integrative role among the various subfields of physical geography. This paper highlights not just how soil moisture affects atmospheric, geomorphic, hydrologic, and biologic processes but that it lies at the intersection of these areas of scientific inquiry. Soil moisture impacts earth surface processes in such a way that it creates an obvious synergistic relationship among the various subfields of physical geography. The dispersive and cohesive properties of soil moisture also make it an important variable in regional and microclimatic analyses, landscape denudation and change through weathering, runoff generation and partitioning, mass wasting, and sediment transport. Thus, this paper serves as a call to use research in soil moisture as an integrative and unifying theme in physical geography.