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The effect of industrial aerial pollution on the composition of soil solutions in podzols

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The composition of soil solutions is a sensitive indicator of the technogenic transformation of podzols of the Kola Peninsula under the impact of aerial pollution. The soil solutions have been obtained using Rhizon vacuum samplers. A sharp rise in the concentrations of heavy metals and sulfates is registered in the solutions from polluted soils. The leaching of organic substances, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, and zinc from the litter horizons of polluted soils considerably increases. The ratios between the element concentrations in solutions from the litter horizons to those from the illuvial horizons become narrower, which suggests that the litter has partly lost its barrier function.

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    G. N. Koptsik & I. E. Smirnova

  2. Center on the Problems of Forest Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

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Original Russian Text © G.N. Koptsik, N.V. Lukina, I.E. Smirnova, 2007, published in Pochvovedenie, 2007, No. 2, pp. 223–234.

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Koptsik, G.N., Lukina, N.V. & Smirnova, I.E. The effect of industrial aerial pollution on the composition of soil solutions in podzols. Eurasian Soil Sc. 40, 203–214 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229307020111

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