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Work on sulfur transformations was initiated at Coweeta in 1980 in an effort to determine the relevance of the plant sulfolipid as a source of sulfate in forest soil. It soon became apparent from the results of this study (Strickland and Fitzgerald 1983) that A-horizon soil from several watersheds exhibited not only rapid S-mineralization rates for this compound, but samples also rapidly incorporated a substantial portion of the released sulfate into a fraction which could only be recovered by acid extraction. This work was followed closely by a study of the fate of sulfate in soils of several ecosystems at Coweeta (Fitzgerald et al. 1982). The results confirmed initial observations made with the sulfolipid and suggested that the acid extractable fraction might be comprised of soil organic sulfur.
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Fitzgerald, J.W. et al. (1988). Sulfur Pools and Transformations in Litter and Surface Soil of a Hardwood Forest. In: Swank, W.T., Crossley, D.A. (eds) Forest Hydrology and Ecology at Coweeta. Ecological Studies, vol 66. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3732-7_18
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