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Approximately half of the volume of productive soils consists of pore space. The pores can be either filled with air or with soil solution. Most of the salts which affect plant growth remain in the soil solution, however. Plants usually extract water selectively from the soil solution, as they return water to the atmosphere during transpiration. Part of the soil solution also evaporates directly from the soil surface, leaving behind its solutes. Each of these processes causes the remaining soil solution to become increasingly more concentrated.
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Bresler, E., McNeal, B.L., Carter, D.L. (1982). Transportation and Distribution of Salts. In: Saline and Sodic Soils. Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68324-4_2
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