Skip to main content
  • English
  • Serbian
  • About Journal
  • Editorial Board
  • Editorial Policy
  • Author Guidelines
  • LATEST ISSUE
  • Archive
    • Issue 209 (2022)
    • Issue 208 (2021)
    • Issue 207 (2021)
    • Issue 206 (2020)
    • Issue 205 (2020)
    • Issue 204 (2019)
    • Issue 203 (2019)
    • Issue 201-202 (2018)
    • Issue 199-200 (2017)
    • Issue 197-198 (2016)
    • Issue 195-196 (2015)
    • Issue 193-194 (2014)
    • Issue 191-192 (2013)
    • Issue 189-190 (2012)
    • Issue 187-188 (2011)
    • Issue 185-186 (2010)
    • Issue 183-184 (2009)
    • Issue 181-182 (2008)
    • Issue 179-180 (2007)
    • Issue 177-178 (2006)
    • Issue 175-176 (2005)
    • Issue 173-174 (2004)
    • Issue 171-172 (2003)
    • Issue 169-170 (2002)
    • Issue 167-168 (2001)
Poplar
2018, Issue 201-202, p. 45-52

Original scientific paper
UDC: 631.445.1(497.11)

Characteristics of some Hydromorphic Soils in the Inundation of the Middle Course of the Sava River


Saša Pekeč 1*, Marina Katanić 1, Vladislava Galović 1, Siniša Andrašev 1, Andrej Pilipović 1


1 University of Novi Sad, Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, Novi Sad, Serbia

Corresponding author:
Saša Pekeč, E-mail: pekecs@uns.ac.rs


Abstract

The paper presents the properties of some hydromorphic soils in the area of the middle course of the Sava River. The soil is analyzed in the area of the coastal-central part of the inundation, that is the fluvisol loamy form, and the central part of the inundation where the determinated soil is the humofluvisol. The explored area is moistened by flooding of the Sava River during high water levels and by the influence of groundwater permanently at a greater or lesser depth. In relation to the position of the soil in the inundation, the granulometric composition of the investigated soils is differentiated, so in the fluvisols of loamy form we distinguish the textural classes of clay and sandy clay, while in the humofluvisol we have fine granulometric fractions and we find texture classes of clay loam, silty clay loam and clay in the lower part of the profile. According to the soil reaction, these soils are neutral to slightly alkaline, and according to the content of the carbonate the investigated soils are in the class of low carbonate to carbonate soils. The humus content decreases with the depth of the profile, and the surface humus horizon is moderately humus in fluvisol and is very humid in humofluvisol, while the lower parts of the profile are poorly humid. Due to the pedological and hydrological characteristics of the explored area along the Sava River, the coastal-central part of the zone is used for raising the plantations of softwoods, primarily clonal mixtures of black poplar trees, while the central part is also suitable for raising the plantation of hardwoods from the complex of alluvial-hygrophilic forests.


Keywords: hydromorfic soil, inundation, flooding, Sava River
Back to Top

University of Novi Sad
Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment
Antona Čehova 13d
21000 Novi Sad
Republic of Serbia
Tel: +381 21 540 383
E-mail: ilfe@uns.ac.rs
www.ilfe.org