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. 2020 Aug 23;26(10):5382–5403. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15289

TABLE 1.

Pore classes (m3/m3) derived from the fits of the van Genuchten (1980) equation to the water retention curves shown in Figure 4, assuming a maximum diameter of micropores of 30 µm (i.e. ψ mic/mes = −100 cm; note that macroporosity is assumed zero in both treatments)

Treatment Textural Structural Total
ϕ t(mic) ϕ t(mes) ϕ t ϕ s(mic) ϕ s(mes) ϕ s ϕ mic ϕ mes ϕ mat
A 0.295 0.005 0.3 0.120 0.168 0.288 0.415 0.173 0.588
D 0.118 0.147 0.265 0.413 0.152 0.565