The Relation of Evaporation and Soil Moisture to Plant Succession in a Ravine

Abstract

For some time geologists have surmised that differences in the evaporative power of the air and the soil-moisture content account for the succession of vegetation that accompanies the physiographic
changes in the development of a ravine. In order to determine whether or not this surmise can be supported by experimental data, this study was made during the summer of 1913.