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Geographic relationships between soil and water acidity, soil-forming factors and acid rain

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Plant-Soil Interactions at Low pH

Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences ((DPSS,volume 45))

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Acid rain has been credited for the existence of most pH &lt 6.0 surface waters in eastern North America and northern Europe. The absence or presence of acidic surface waters are reportedly due to the absence or presence of acid rain. However, climate is responsible for two regional distributions — acid rain and acid soils. Moist climates with reasonable growing seasons are needed to develop regionally-acidic soils and to support sufficient human population and activity to generate regionally-acidified precipitation. That the pH of water passing through acid soils resembles soil pH and is but little influenced by the acidity of precipitation; acidic waters were nearly as common in areas receiving acid rain in pre-industrial times as they are today; regional land-use changes co-occur with acid rain, and; acidic surface waters are comparatively common in Southern Hemisphere watersheds with acid soils in the absence of acid rain all indicate that acid rain incrementally adds to the acidity of surface waters rather than creating the perceived profound widespread aquatic acidification.

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Krug, E.C. (1991). Geographic relationships between soil and water acidity, soil-forming factors and acid rain. In: Wright, R.J., Baligar, V.C., Murrmann, R.P. (eds) Plant-Soil Interactions at Low pH. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3438-5_14

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