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Micro paddy lysimeter for monitoring solute transport in paddy environment

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The micro paddy lysimeter (MPL) was developed and evaluated for its performance to simulate solute transport in paddy environment under laboratory conditions. MPLs were constructed using soil collected from Field Museum Honmachi of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan. For the physical characteristics of the hardpan layer, parameters such as thickness, and soil aggregate size, affecting the percolation rate were studied. For the plow layer, two types of plow soils, sieved and un-sieved soils were compared. The sieved soil plow layer was produced by mixing air-dried soils of different aggregate sizes of D > 9.50, 9.50 ≥ D > 4.75, 4.75 ≥ D > 2.0 mm and D ≤ 2.0 mm at 47.1, 19.5, 20.6, and 12.8%, respectively. The un-sieved plow layer soil was directly used after collecting from the field. Inert tracer was applied to ponding water with controlled boundary conditions to evaluate the reproducibility of the soil hydraulic characteristics. HYDRUS-1D was used to evaluate the movement of bromide tracer in the MPL. The proposed conditions of the MPL were that the hardpan layer can be made from soil aggregates smaller than 0.425 mm with 2 cm thickness and that the plow layer can be prepared with sieved or un-sieved soils. With these conditions, the obtained results proved that MPLs can be a useful tool to simulate solute transport in paddy environment.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are indebted to Dr. Takashi Motobayashi at FM Honmachi at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology for arranging field experiment site. Thanks are also due to Dr. Makoto Kato at NTC consulting company Ltd., Tokyo, Japan for providing technical assistance for this study.

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  1. United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 3-5-8, Saiwaicho, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan

    Dang Quoc Thuyet, Hirozumi Watanabe & Hirotaka Saito

  2. Hydraulic Construction Institute, Vietnam Institute for Water Resources Research, 171 Tay Son, Dong Da, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Thai Quoc Hien

  3. Department of Bioproduction Environmental Sciences, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan

    Thai Khanh Phong

  4. Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan

    Taku Nishimura

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Thuyet, D.Q., Hien, T.Q., Watanabe, H. et al. Micro paddy lysimeter for monitoring solute transport in paddy environment. Paddy Water Environ 8, 235–245 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10333-010-0204-8

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