Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-929-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-929-2015
Research article
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28 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 28 Jul 2015

Relationship between hydraulic properties and plant coverage of the closed-landfill soils in Piacenza (Po Valley, Italy)

C. Cassinari, P. Manfredi, L. Giupponi, M. Trevisan, and C. Piccini

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The amount of water available to plants in a closed landfill soil is analyzed by laboratory analyses, by using pedotransfer functions (PTFs) and by studying plant coverage. The laboratory analyses and PTFs highlighted the soil's inability to hold water. The closed landfill plant coverage consists of annual species (therophytes) typical of disturbed environments. The soil's low-water content, together with other degraded soil characters, justifies the plant coverage.