Sammendrag
Soil water at an acid-sensitive forested catchment in southwestern
Poland has been studied for four years. Median base saturation (BS) is
only 5% in the podzol B-horizons. Very low pH values in the soil water
from the O-horizons (10- and 90 percentiles pH 3.5 and 4.3) increased
to a typical median pH in the B-horizons of 4.4, mainly by release of
inorganic labile aluminium (Ali). Median concentrations in the B
horizons were 3.4mg Ali L-1. Al-soil/soilwater interactions were
studied over a large span of sulphate concentrations resulting from
both a generally decreasing S-deposition during the last decades and an
increase in precipitation during the study period. These changes led
sulphate to leach from the mineral soil. Aluminium mobilisation is
better described by jurbanite- than by gibbsite solubility. For the
soils with aluminium saturation (AlS) >90%, there is a tendency that
the concentration of Al3+ decreases less than divalent base cations
with a decrease in SO42- concentration. This causes the critical load
molar ratio (RCL={Al3+}/{Ca2++Mg2+}) to increase with a decrease in the
sulphate concentration in soil water, which is not in agreement with a
simple cation-exchange model.
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