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Soil pH, Soil Health and Climate Change

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Soil Health and Climate Change

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Variable and changing climate will influence soil properties, including pH as a master variable that affects all other properties of an ecosystem. There is little knowledge about specific effects of altered temperature and rainfall patterns on soil properties; it points to highly variable responses in dependence on initial soil and ecosystem properties. Increased biomass production in managed ecosystem due to increased temperature and/or increased rainfall is likely to result in increased acidification of soil due to removal of alkalinity in the harvested produce. Increased leaching of basic cations due to increased rainfall will transfer alkalinity from the soil exchange complex into surface waters and groundwater, leaving acidified soils. Altered water regime in soils containing oxidizable sulphide materials may cause huge soil acidification (acid sulphate soils) if such soil layers are exposed to air. Improved understanding of the effects of changing and variable climate on soil pH and other soil properties is urgently needed to inform management decision to prevent loss of environmental function in soils and terrestrial ecosystems.

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Rengel, Z. (2011). Soil pH, Soil Health and Climate Change. In: Singh, B., Cowie, A., Chan, K. (eds) Soil Health and Climate Change. Soil Biology, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20256-8_4

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