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2010
Volume 13
Issue 4
Topic:
Forestry
ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Gruba P. 2010. THE SOLUBILITY OF IRON IN FOREST SOILS, EJPAU 13(4), #23.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume13/issue4/abs-23.html

THE SOLUBILITY OF IRON IN FOREST SOILS

Piotr Gruba
Department of Forest Soil Science, University of Agriculture in Cracow, Poland

 

ABSTRACT


The objective of this study was to investigate the mechanisms regulating Fe solubility in mountain forest soils from Southern Poland, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Fe concentration and pH. On evaluating the content of Fe in both the soil solution and soil solid phases, it was found that there is a visible relationship between the solution's pH and iron content, with a lack of correlation between the content of Fe in the solution and soil solid phases (neither Fep nor
Feox). Furthermore, the saturation degree of soil organic matter with iron, a key element in organic matter solubility/mobility, appears to be pH dependent.

Key words: iron, forest soil, Beskidy Mountains.


Piotr Gruba
Department of Forest Soil Science,
University of Agriculture in Cracow, Poland
Al. 29 Listopada 46, 31-425 Cracow, Poland
email: rlgruba@cyf-kr.edu.pl

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