Acidification of soil solution in a chestnut forest stand in southern Switzerland: Are there signs of recovery?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7761-7767

  Graf Pannatier, Elisabeth ^a   Luster, Jörg ^a   Zimmermann, Stephan ^a   Blaser, Peter ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC DEPOSITION; NUTRIENT CATIONS; SOIL SOLUTION; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS;

DEPOSITION; FORESTRY; REDUCTION; SOILS; SOLUTIONS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ACIDITY;

ALUMINUM; SULFATE; SULFUR;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACIDIFICATION; FOREST SOIL;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ECOLOGY; FOREST; REACTION ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

ACID RAIN; ALUMINUM; CATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FAGACEAE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LINEAR MODELS; SOIL; SULFATES; SWITZERLAND; TREES;

ACIDIFICATION; DEPOSITION; FORESTRY; REDUCTION; SOIL; SOLUTIONS; SULFATES;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

EID: 26944447485     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050280o     Document Type: Article

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