Soil response to acid deposition at different regional scales : field and laboratory data, critical loads and model predictions

Enhanced soil, ground water and surface water acidification by elevated deposition of S and N compounds is one of the most important large-scale environmental problems today. This thesis deals with the quantification of:(i) natural and man-induced sources of acidification in agricultural soils and forest soils in the Netherlands;(ii) present impacts of atmospheric S and N deposition on the solution chemistry of acid sandy forest soils in the Netherlands;(iii) various buffermechanisms (i.e. mineral weathering, cation exchange and AI dissolution) in acid sandy soils in the Netherlands;(iv) avera... Mehr ...