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Both the international ISO standard and modern soil classifi cations and databases require soil pH measurement at a 1:5 soil:solution ratio, while the ratio 1:2.5 is still the most commonly used in Poland and other European countries. The transformation of laboratory practices is necessary, but it is also necessary to establish and validate a reliable procedure for converting soil pH at soil:solution...
Lake sediments and peat bogs are “natural archives” of long-term changes in the quality of the natural environment at local and regional scales. However, due to technical difficulties the sediments of mountain lakes are rarely subject of geochemical analyses. Also, the sediments of Wielki Staw (1,225 m a.s.l.), the largest lake in the Karkonosze and entire Sudeten Mountains, have never been analyzed...
Due to the ease and low cost of implementation, a commonly used method of determining the humus content in soils is the loss-on-ignition (LOI) method. Several regression equations and transformation factors are reported for LOI conversion to soil organic matter (SOM) or total organic carbon (TOC) content. The vast majority of the conversion factors have been developed for surface horizons of lowland...
This paper describes the fractions of humus compounds present in the organic and mineral horizons of the forest soils in the area of the Karkonosze Mountains. Soil profiles that represented the mountain Podzols and Dystric Cambisol were located on the northern slope along an altitude gradient from 890 to 1255 m a.s.l. Two soils were located under the spruce forest, and one in the subalpine meadow...
The aim of the paper was to assess the role of forest litter and mineral soil layers (0-10 and 10-20 cm) as stocks of plant-available macronutrients intheforested zone of the Karkonosze Mountains National Park, an area of forest decline at the end of 20th century. Soil samples were collected in 529 monitoring sites arranged in a 200x300 m grid. Concentrations of plant-available nutrients were much...
Bh horizons of Podzols formed from regoliths of sandstones, granites and gneisses in the Sudety Mountains are dark in colour, rich in organic substance, strongly acidic and slightly saturated with basic cations. They are also significantly enriched with organic and amorphous compounds of iron and aluminium. They meet all the morphological and physicochemical requirements of illuvial spodichorizons...
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