Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale

Nature

Volumn 540, Issue 7634, 2016, Pages 567-569

  Slessarev, E W ^a   Lin, Y ^b   Bingham, N L ^a   Johnson, J E ^c,e   Dai, Y ^d   Schimel, J P ^a   Chadwick, O A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM OXIDE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM ION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ACID;

ACID SOIL; CLIMATE FORCING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; PH; SOIL FERTILITY; THRESHOLD; WATER BUDGET;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BIOLEACHING; CLIMATE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLUID BALANCE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MINERALOGY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL EROSION; SOIL FERTILITY;

EID: 85019861482     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20139     Document Type: Article

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