Lysimeter

The soil contained in the field lysimeter can either be collected as a monolith (i.e., in one piece) or be reconstructed from the different layers present at the sampling site.

[citation needed] For farm crops, a lysimeter can represent field conditions well since the device is installed and used outside the laboratory.

[3] The University of Arizona's Biosphere 2 built the world's largest weighing lysimeters using a mixture of thirty 220,000 and 333,000 lb-capacity (ca.

This data is then combined with measurements of environmental parameters in the greenhouse, including radiation, humidity and temperature, as well as soil water conditions.

[6] The Faculty of Agriculture in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem owns one of the most advanced functional phenotyping system, with more than 500 units screened simultaneously.