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Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-121-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-121-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
Original research article
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31 Jan 2025
Original research article |  | 31 Jan 2025

The effect of groundwater depth on topsoil organic matter mineralization during a simulated dry summer in northwestern Europe

Astrid Françoys, Orly Mendoza, Junwei Hu, Pascal Boeckx, Wim Cornelis, Stefaan De Neve, and Steven Sleutel

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To assess the impact of the groundwater table (GWT) depth on soil moisture and C mineralization, we designed a laboratory setup using 200 cm undisturbed soil columns. Surprisingly, the moisture increase induced by a shallower GWT did not result in enhanced C mineralization. We presume this upward capillary moisture effect was offset by increased C mineralization upon rewetting, particularly noticeable in drier soils when capillary rise affected the topsoil to a lesser extent due to a deeper GWT.
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