SOME EFFECTS OF 50 YEARS OF AFFORESTATION ON SOILS IN THE KIRKTON-GLEN, BALQUHIDDER

Authors
ANDERSON HA MILLER JD GAULD JH HEPBURN A STEWART M
Citation
Ha. Anderson et al., SOME EFFECTS OF 50 YEARS OF AFFORESTATION ON SOILS IN THE KIRKTON-GLEN, BALQUHIDDER, Journal of hydrology, 145(3-4), 1993, pp. 439-451
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Civil","Water Resources","Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Journal of hydrology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00221694
Volume
145
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
439 - 451
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-1694(1993)145:3-4<439:SEO5YO>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Six soil profiles in Kirkton and Monachyle glens have been compared, w ith the aim of detailing any changes in soil chemistry brought about b y forest nutrient uptake. Poorly drained gley soils and freely drained podzol profiles at Kirkton under 50-year-old Scots pine and Sitka spr uce, and under clear-felled Sitka and European larch of the same age, were compared with their recently planted (P90) counterparts in Monach yle. Patterns of depletion or repletion of exchangeable cations can be explained in terms of soil hydrogeochemistry.