Authors: Strand, L.¹; Abrahamsen, G.²; Stuanes, A.²

Source: Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, Volume 165, Numbers 1-4, July 2005 , pp. 379-402(24)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

This study focuses on fluxes of elements from, and changes in the soil properties of shallow organic material rich soil as a result of changes in precipitation acidity. Intact soil columns including natural vegetation from two areas (one exposed to acidic precipitation and one unpolluted) were used in a lysimeter experiment. The lysimeters were watered with simulated normal rain (pH 5.3) or simulated acidic rain (pH 4.3) for four years. Sulphuric acid and ammonium nitrate were used to regulate the quality of the simulated rain. Significantly more SO₄^2- was leached from lysimeters receiving acid rain. Rain acidity had no significant effect on NO₃^- leaching. Significantly more Mg²⁺ was leached from lysimeters receiving acid rain, but this only applied for the soils from the unpolluted area. Four years of treatment did not cause any significant effect on the soil acidity and the amounts of base cations in the soil. The more acidic rain did, however, cause a significant lower cation exchange capacity. For the soils from the polluted area the acid precipitation did cause a lowering of the exchangeable K⁺ in the upper 5 cm of the soil. Different quality of the soil organic material indicated by different vegetation types appeared to cause significant differences in the amount of components leached from the soil, but did not cause any difference in response to the different rain qualities.

Keywords: acid precipitation; lysimeters; nitrate; Norway; organic anions; soil organic matter; sulphate

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11270-005-7272-1

Affiliations: 1: Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, P.O. Box 5003, N-1432 Ås, Norway, Email: line.strand@ipm.nlh.no 2: Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, P.O. Box 5003, N-1432 Ås, Norway,

Publication date: 2005-07-01

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