Acidification of forested podzols in North Belgium during the period 1950-2000

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 361, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 189-195

  De Schrijver, An ^a   Mertens, Jan ^a   Geudens, Guy ^a   Staelens, Jeroen ^a   Campforts, Elke ^a   Luyssaert, Sebastiaan ^b   De Temmerman, Ludwig ^c   De Keersmaeker, Luc ^d   De Neve, Stefaan ^a   Verheyen, Kris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Centre for Research in Veterinary Science and Agricultural Chemistry   (Belgium)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acidification; Acidification rate; Forest; North Belgium; pH KCl; Podzols

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PH EFFECTS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

ACIDIFICATION; ACIDIFICATION RATE; NORTH BELGIUM; PH-KCL; PODZOLS;

SOILS;

AMMONIA; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SULFATE;

ACIDIFICATION; AMMONIUM; DEPOSITION; FOREST SOIL; PH; PODZOL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHRONOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST; MEASUREMENT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ACIDIFICATION; SOIL PROPERTY;

ACID RAIN; BELGIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL; TREES;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FLANDERS; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646249601     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.06.015     Document Type: Article

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