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Amounts of total sulfur and sulfate (NaHCO3-extractable) were determined in soil samples from 19 representative profiles under forest vegetation in the areas of pleistocene and of the triassic middle range mountains in Germany. The mean total sulfur contents in surface and subsurface samples were 278 and 136 μg S/g soil respectively. The total amount of sulfate and its fraction in the total sulfur was low in the surface samples. The subsurface soil samples of pH>5 contained very little sulfate. The difference between total sulfur and NaHCO3-extractable sulfate described as nonsulfate fraction was mainly constituted by the fraction of organic sulfur. The mean C:N:S ratio (sulfur as nonsulfate) for samples with carbon content more than 2% was 225∶10∶1.14. Compared with the parent material there was an accumulation of S in the acid brown earths developed from loess. Comparison of the sites with beech and spruce vegetation showed that the amount of nonsulfate-sulfur was of the same magnitude in both sites, but the amount of sulfate was higher in the spruce area. Similar differences between a beech and a spruce site were also observed for soils developed from weathered sandstone. The high amounts of sulfate under spruce are probably the result of higher inputs in the area due to the ‘filtering action’ of the spruce trees on emitted SO2.
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Meiwes, K.J., Heinrichs, H. & Khanna, P.K. Schwefel in Waldböden Nordwest-Deutschlands und seine vegetationsabhängige Akkumulation. Plant Soil 54, 173–183 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02181843
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