Soil microbial biomass content typically reflects the soil organic
matter content and water holding capacity of a soil scales closely
with soil organic matter content (Wardle, 1992; Fierer et al., 2009).
As a consequence, soil material with higher organic matter content
may exhibit higher moisture content. These observations are,
however, derived from deeper soil horizons where organic matter
content shows high level of variation. In this work where we analyzed
the organic-rich topsoil horizons with very high soil organic
matter content showing low level of spatial variation, we did not
find significant correlation between soil organic matter content and
soil moisture content. Also the pH of soil was relatively constant in
space and no significant correlation with soil moisture content was
observed.