Purpose: Understanding the characteristics of soil infiltration response to rainfall is critical for soil water transport processes and hydrologic modeling. However, little is known about how they vary with forest conversion at different temporal stages (< 20years) below the rooting zone. Therefore, this study aims to investigate soil infiltration response patterns in different subtropical forest conversion hillslopes, including mature original forest (thick root), young secondary forest (middle root), and very young secondary grassland (fine r...
