Abstract.
Hydro-pedotransfer
functions
(PTFs)
relate
easy-to-measure
and
readily
available
soil
information
to
hydraulic
properties
for
applications
in
a
wide
range
of
process-based
empirical
models,
thereby
enabling
the
assessment
effects
on
hydrological,
biogeochemical,
ecological
processes.
At
least
more
than
four
decades
research
have
been
invested
derive
such
relationships.
However,
while
methods,
data
storage
capacity,
computational
efficiency
advanced,
there
are
fundamental
concerns
related
scope
adequacy
current
PTFs,
particularly
when
applied
parameterize
models
used
at
field
scale
beyond.
Most
PTF
development
process
has
focused
refining
advancing
regression
aspects
remained
largely
unconsidered.
system
settings
not
captured
by
existing
which
built
mostly
agricultural
soils
temperate
climates.
Thus.
PTFs
ignorie
how
parent
material,
vegetation,
land
use,
climate
affect
processes
that
shape
properties.
The
parameterise
Richards-Richardson
equation
limited
predicting
parameters
van
Genuchten-Mualem
functions,
despite
sufficient
evidence
demonstrating
their
shortcomings.
Another
issue
relates
diverging
scales
derivation
application,
whereby
derived
based
laboratory
measurements
being
often
regional
scales.
Scaling,
modulation,
constraining
strategies
exist
alleviate
some
these
shortcomings
mismatch
between
These
addressed
here
joint
effort
members
International
Soil
Modelling
Consortium
(ISMC)
Pedotransfer
Functions
Working
Group
with
aim
systematise
provide
roadmap
guiding
both
use.
Sociologia Ruralis,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
63(3), P. 703 - 728
Published: Jan. 25, 2023
Abstract
The
article
analyses
how
and
why
agricultural
digitalisation
unfolds
in
contrasting
sub‐sectors
rural
spaces
Europe,
with
a
particular
focus
on
dairy
farming.
authors
explore
the
differences
similarities
underpinning
produced
by
this
intersects
meanings
of
development
politics
sustainability.
Building
qualitative
research
carried
out
regions
Uppsala
(Sweden)
Calabria
(Italy),
unveils
contradictory
nature
as
process
intertwined
capitalist
agriculture
that
raises
key
political
questions.
cases
Calabria,
particular,
show
transformation
farming
through
automation
is
uneven
combined,
being
deeply
connected
to
sustainability
are
embedded—and
negotiated—in
specific
agrarian
settings.
discuss
their
empirical
findings
terms
new
questions
Europe.
Abstract.
Hydro-pedotransfer
functions
(PTFs)
relate
easy-to-measure
and
readily
available
soil
information
to
hydraulic
properties
for
applications
in
a
wide
range
of
process-based
empirical
models,
thereby
enabling
the
assessment
effects
on
hydrological,
biogeochemical,
ecological
processes.
At
least
more
than
four
decades
research
have
been
invested
derive
such
relationships.
However,
while
methods,
data
storage
capacity,
computational
efficiency
advanced,
there
are
fundamental
concerns
related
scope
adequacy
current
PTFs,
particularly
when
applied
parameterize
models
used
at
field
scale
beyond.
Most
PTF
development
process
has
focused
refining
advancing
regression
aspects
remained
largely
unconsidered.
system
settings
not
captured
by
existing
which
built
mostly
agricultural
soils
temperate
climates.
Thus.
PTFs
ignorie
how
parent
material,
vegetation,
land
use,
climate
affect
processes
that
shape
properties.
The
parameterise
Richards-Richardson
equation
limited
predicting
parameters
van
Genuchten-Mualem
functions,
despite
sufficient
evidence
demonstrating
their
shortcomings.
Another
issue
relates
diverging
scales
derivation
application,
whereby
derived
based
laboratory
measurements
being
often
regional
scales.
Scaling,
modulation,
constraining
strategies
exist
alleviate
some
these
shortcomings
mismatch
between
These
addressed
here
joint
effort
members
International
Soil
Modelling
Consortium
(ISMC)
Pedotransfer
Functions
Working
Group
with
aim
systematise
provide
roadmap
guiding
both
use.
