Table 6.
Total porosity in relation to management type (expressed as percentage of pores relative to the total volume), and modelled saturated permeability, of the volume of interest used for modelling, for the sandy soil at the core and aggregate scale (mean ± pooled standard error).
| Treatment | n | Core |
Aggregate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porosity (%) | Permeability (mm2) | Porosity (%) | Permeability (mm2) | ||
| Fallow | 4 | 20.9 (±1.55) | 266 (±59.0) | 25.0 (±1.71) | 2.44 (±0.45) |
| Inorganically fertilised arable | 5 | 21.2 (±1.38) | 406 (±52.8) | 26.0 (±1.71) | 2.84 (±0.40) |
| Manured arable | 4 | 16.4 (±1.55) | 501 (±59.0) | 24.3 (±1.52) | 1.88 (±0.45) |
| Grassland | 4 | 17.0 (±1.55) | 464 (±59.0) | 24.6 (±1.71) | 1.72 (±0.45) |
| PF | 0.61 | 0.37 | 0.98 | 0.54 | |