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2001
Volume 4
Issue 1
Topic:
Agronomy
ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Raczuk J. 2001. POŁUDNIOWOPODLASKA LOWLAND ECOSYSTEM SOIL BUFFER CAPACITY , EJPAU 4(1), #01.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume4/issue1/agronomy/abs-01.html

POŁUDNIOWOPODLASKA LOWLAND ECOSYSTEM SOIL BUFFER CAPACITY

Jolanta Raczuk

 

ABSTRACT



The paper presents the results of research on soil buffer capacity in Południowopodlaska Lowland ecosystems. The buffer curves were sketched and soil buffer areas measured with planimeter. The data obtained were compared with some soil physical and chemical properties using statistical methods. The greatest acid buffer capacity was observed in highly base-saturated meadow ecosystem soils (VCEB = 82.8 - 98.7%), while the greatest alkali buffer capacity – low base-saturated soils of forest ecosystems (VCEB = 10.8 - 49.5%). Upper horizons of arable land soils showed a greater alkali rather than acid buffer capacity, while soil buffer capacity of deeper mineral horizons changed with soil physical and chemical properties.

Key words: arable land soils, forest soils, meadow soils, buffer capacity, soil physical and chemical properties.