What is root zone depth?
Likewise, people ask, what is the root zone?
The root zone is the area of oxygen and soil surrounding the roots of a plant. Understanding and locating the root zone is a crucial part of gardening. Plants that have deep roots have a deeper root zone and depend more on groundwater.
Also Know, what is rooting depth?
Effective rooting depth. Effective rooting depth. The soil depth from which a fully grown plant can easily extract most of the water needed for transpiration. It can be limited by physical (e.g. cemented pan) or chemical (e.g. saline horizon) properties. Back to global Glossary.
Effective root zone is the depth within which most crop roots are concentrated, which was estimated as ∼50–100 cm for wheat, maize, barley and canola, as ∼60–70 cm for peas, as ∼120 cm for alfalfa (ARD, 2013).