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Potential for Acidification of Forest Soils in Europe

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Over the last thirty years concern about acid rain and its consequences in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems has grown in conjunction with increasing public awareness of environmental issues in general. The first signs of acidification were observed in vulnerable lake ecosystems in Scandinavia (Odén, 1968). About ten years later soil scientists in Central Europe reported detrimental changes in the chemistry of forest soils (Ulrich et al., 1980). The central role of soils as a link between acid rain and lake and groundwater acidification as well as between acid rain and forest damage was recognized quite early on, for example in the Norwegian SNSF-Project (Overrein et al., 1981).

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Posch, M., Kauppi, L. (1991). Potential for Acidification of Forest Soils in Europe. In: Brouwer, F.M., Thomas, A.J., Chadwick, M.J. (eds) Land Use Changes in Europe. The GeoJournal Library, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3290-9_15

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