✦ LIBER ✦
Aluminium chemistry of the root zone of forest soil affected by acid deposition at the Lysina catchment, Czech Republic
✍ Scribed by Jakub Hruška; Pavel Krám
- Book ID
- 103963527
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 562 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0925-8574
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✦ Synopsis
The aluminium chemistry of soil solution in the root zone was evaluated for a spruce (Picea abies) forest ecosystem in the Lysina catchment underlain by base-poor granitic bedrock and impacted by acid deposition. The principal H÷-buffering process in these soils is not the release of aluminium ions, although pH of soil solution is very low. The upper soil horizons are depleted of aluminium and as a consequence, the Ca/Al ratio of the soil solution is relatively high. The soil water is generally undersaturated with respect to gibbsite, aluminium-silicates and jurbanite.