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Original research article
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31 Jul 2019
Original research article |
| 31 Jul 2019
| 31 Jul 2019
Spatially resolved soil solution chemistry in a central European atmospherically polluted high-elevation catchment
Daniel A. Petrash
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Frantisek Buzek
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Martin Novak
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Bohuslava Cejkova
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Pavel Kram
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Tomas Chuman
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Jan Curik
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Frantisek Veselovsky
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Rock Geochemistry,
Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Marketa Stepanova
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Oldrich Myska
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Pavla Holeckova
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Leona Bohdalkova
Czech Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Geochemistry
and Biogeochemistry, Geologicka 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
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Short summary
Some 30 years after peak pollution-related soil acidification occurred in central Europe, the forest ecosystem of a small V-shaped mountain valley, UDL, was still out of chemical balance relative to the concurrent loads of anions and cations in precipitation. The spatial variability in soil solution chemistry provided evidence pointing to substrate variability, C and P bioavailability, and landscape as major controls on base metal leaching toward the subsoil level in N-saturated catchments.
Some 30 years after peak pollution-related soil acidification occurred in central Europe, the...
