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John Koestel

Researcher at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Publications -  63
Citations -  2213

John Koestel is an academic researcher from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil water & Macropore. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 45 publications receiving 1555 citations. Previous affiliations of John Koestel include University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad & Forschungszentrum Jülich.

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Influence of soil, land use and climatic factors on the hydraulic conductivity of soil

TL;DR: In this article, a new global database of hydraulic conductivity measured by ten-sion infiltrometer under field conditions was collated, and the results of their analyses on this data set contrast markedly with those of ex- isting algorithms used to estimate K. The data suggests that Ks depends more strongly on bulk density, or- ganic carbon content and land use.
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Understanding Preferential Flow in the Vadose Zone: Recent Advances and Future Prospects

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review some of the more significant advances that have been made in the last decade in the study of preferential flow through the vadose zone as well as suggest some research needs in the coming years.
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Microbial spatial footprint as a driver of soil carbon stabilization.

TL;DR: A unique combination of X-ray micro-tomography and micro-scale enzyme mapping is used to demonstrate for the first time that plant-stimulated soil pore formation appears to be a major, hitherto unrecognized, determinant of whether new C inputs are stored or lost to the atmosphere.
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Relations between macropore network characteristics and the degree of preferential solute transport

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between macropore network characteristics, hydraulic properties and state variables and measures of preferential transport and found that columns with smaller macroporosities, poorer local connectivity, and smaller near-saturated hydraulic conductivities exhibited a greater degree of preferential transfer.