Difference in the pH values of hydromorphic soils in field and laboratory analyses


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There are marked differences in the pH values determined in water suspension under laboratory conditions and in soil solution under field conditions in hydromorphic soils (gleysols and stagnosols). The value δpH = pHsusp–pHsol can be either positive or negative. Among the main factors that affect the value of δpH are the laboratory preparation of soil samples and the suspension effect. The sign of the pH effect (value of δpH) depends on the participation of humus, carbonate, and exchange bases in the formation of aggregates destructed in the laboratory. The value of δpH is negative in noncalcareous soils with low content of exchangeable bases and fulvate composition of humus and positive in calcareous soils or soils enriched with exchangeable bases and humate composition of humus. In cases of a significant δpH effect, the value of pHsusp cannot be regarded as an adequate measure of soil acidity.

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Yu. Vodyanitskii

Department of Soil Science

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Email: yu.vodyan@mail.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991

V. Mineev

Department of Soil Science

Email: yu.vodyan@mail.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 119991

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