Effects of forest-floor disturbance on soil-solution nutrient composition in a black spruce ecosystem

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 894-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Van Cleve ◽  
C. T. Dyrness
Keyword(s):  
Soil Solution ◽  
Forest Floor ◽  
Black Spruce ◽  
Stream Water ◽  
Solution Chemistry ◽  
Chemical Analyses ◽  
Soil Solution Chemistry ◽  
Mechanical Removal ◽  
Forest Floor Disturbance ◽  
Consistent Treatment

This study summarizes the effects of forest-floor disturbance on soil-solution chemistry. For comparative purposes chemical analyses are also presented of soil solution collected beneath undisturbed black spruce (Piceamariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) stands, stream water, and precipitation in the same area. The disturbance treatments were superimposed on the forest floor following removal of the black spruce overstory. These included burning of the forest floor, and mechanical removal of one-half and all of the forest floor. Conductivity, pH, and the concentrations of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], phosphates, K, Ca, and Mg were determined in the various water samples. Only in the case of the most severe treatments, one-half and all of the forest floor removed, was there substantial changes in conductivity, pH, and the concentrations of Ca and Mg. Potassium and P showed no consistent treatment effects. Lack of significant change in solution N concentration may reflect increased microbial activity and N immobilization in the forest floor in response to disturbance.

scholarly journals Spatially resolved soil solution chemistry in a central European atmospherically polluted high-elevation catchment

SOIL ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Petrash ◽  
Frantisek Buzek ◽  
Martin Novak ◽  
Bohuslava Cejkova ◽  
Pavel Kram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Solution ◽  
Stream Water ◽  
Ammonium Oxalate ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Solution Chemistry ◽  
P Availability ◽  
Pore Waters ◽  
Soil Solution Chemistry ◽  
Central European ◽  
Anions And Cations

Abstract. We collected soil solutions by suction lysimeters in a central European temperate forest with a history of acidification-related spruce die-back in order to interpret spatial patterns of soil nutrient partitioning, compare them with stream water chemistry and evaluate these parameters relative to concurrent loads of anions and cations in precipitation. Five lysimeter nests were installed in the 33 ha U dvou loucek (UDL) mountain catchment at different topographic positions (hilltops, slopes and valley). Following equilibration, monthly soil solution samples were interrogated over a 2-year period with regard to their SO42-, NO3-, NH4+, Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+ and total dissolved Al concentrations, organic carbon (DOC) and pH. Soil pits were excavated in the vicinity of each lysimeter nest to also constrain soil chemistry. For an estimation of phosphorus (P) availability, ammonium oxalate extraction of soil samples was performed. Cation exchange capacity (CEC ≤58 meq kg−1) and base saturation (BS ≤13 %) were found to be significantly lower at UDL than in other monitored central European small catchments areas. Spatial trends and seasonality in soil solution chemistry support belowground inputs from mineral-stabilized legacy pollutants. Overall, the soil solution data suggest that the ecosystem was still chemically out of balance relative to the concurrent loads of anions and cations in precipitation, documenting incomplete recovery from acidification. Nearly 30 years after peak acidification, UDL exhibited similar soil solution concentrations of SO42, Ca2+ and Mg2+ as median values at the Pan-European International Co-operative Program (ICP) Forest sites with similar bedrock lithology and vegetation cover, yet NO3- concentrations were an order of magnitude higher. When concentrations of SO42-, NO3- and base cations in runoff are compared to soil pore waters, higher concentration in runoff points to lateral surficial leaching of pollutants and nutrients in excess than from topsoil to subsoil. With P availability being below the lowest range observed in soil plots from the Czech Republic, the managed forest ecosystem in UDL probably reflects growing inputs of C from regenerating vegetation in the N-saturated soil, which leads to P depletion in the soil. In addition, the observed spatial variability provides evidence pointing to substrate variability, C and P bioavailability, and landscape as major controls over base metal leaching toward the subsoil level in N-saturated catchments.

Acid deposition in the German solling area: Effects on soil solution chemistry and Al mobilization

1992 ◽  
Vol 61 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 221-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Matzner ◽  
J. Prenzel
Keyword(s):  
Soil Solution ◽  
Acid Deposition ◽  
Solution Chemistry ◽  
Soil Solution Chemistry ◽  
Area Effects

Effects of hog manure application on the nutrition and growth of hybrid poplar (Populus spp.) and on soil solution chemistry in short-rotation woody crops

2012 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Lafleur ◽  
Evelyne Thiffault ◽  
David Paré ◽  
Claude Camiré ◽  
Michèle Bernier-Cardou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Solution ◽  
Hybrid Poplar ◽  
Solution Chemistry ◽  
Soil Solution Chemistry ◽  
Manure Application ◽  
Woody Crops ◽  
Short Rotation Woody Crops ◽  
Short Rotation ◽  
Hog Manure ◽  
Populus Spp

Soil-solution chemistry in a low-elevation spruce-fir ecosystem, Howland, Maine

1995 ◽  
Vol 84 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 129-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan J. Fernandez ◽  
Gregory B. Lawrence ◽  
Yowhan Son
Keyword(s):  
Soil Solution ◽  
Solution Chemistry ◽  
Soil Solution Chemistry

Effects of planting orientation and density on the soil solution chemistry and growth of willow cuttings

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 165-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Cao ◽  
Tarja Lehto ◽  
Sirpa Piirainen ◽  
Jussi V.K. Kukkonen ◽  
Paavo Pelkonen
Keyword(s):  
Soil Solution ◽  
Solution Chemistry ◽  
Soil Solution Chemistry

scholarly journals The response of soil solution chemistry in European forests to decreasing acid deposition

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 3603-3619 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Johnson ◽  
Elisabeth Graf Pannatier ◽  
Stefano Carnicelli ◽  
Guia Cecchini ◽  
Nicholas Clarke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Solution ◽  
Acid Deposition ◽  
Solution Chemistry ◽  
Soil Solution Chemistry ◽  
European Forests

Soil Solution Chemistry in Forests with Granite Bedrock in Japan

2001 ◽  
pp. 1001-1006
Author(s):  
Kazuo Sato ◽  
Takashi Wakamatsu
Keyword(s):  
Soil Solution ◽  
Solution Chemistry ◽  
Soil Solution Chemistry
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