Adding deionized water with a graduate pipette
compensated evaporation losses. The experimental
setup included four treatments with 10 replicates
each. During the experiment, soils were incubated for
a period ofsixty days and exposed to multiple dryingrewetting
cycles with target moisture content (Fig.
3, 5, 6 and 7). The control soil remained at constant
moisture of 32%
wt
. Treatments receiving short
drying-rewetting cycles (SDWC) were exposed to six
evenly distributed DWC; the soil wasrewetted to 32%
wt
after reaching a water content of 21% wet; soils