PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kozlovsky Dufková, Jana
TI  - Influence of low temperatures on aggregate disruption of heavy clay soils
DP  - 2014 Oct 1
TA  - Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
PG  - 161--168
VI  - 58
IP  - 2
AID - 10.11118/actaun201058020161
IS  - 12118516
AB  - Heavy clay soils that are normally resistant to wind erosion, from study site Ostrožská Nová Ves situated in the foothills of the Bílé Karpaty Mountains, Czech Republic, were a subject of laboratory analyses. The analyses should found out the influence of overwinter processes on disruption of soil aggregates and thus reason of vulnerability to soil loss by wind. Two overwinter processes were observed - freezing and thawing, and freeze-drying of the soil. Both processes have indicated the increasing of erodible fraction in dependence of water content of analysed soils. Exposed frozen clay soils that freeze-dries during the winter in the foothills of Bílé Karpaty, leaves soils highly erodible in late winter and early spring.