The relationship between dissolved organic carbon and hydro-climatic factors in peat-muck soil

Abstract

The object of this study was the concentration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in soil solution related to groundwater table, soil temperature, moisture, redox potential and intensive storm rain and their changes during ten years (2001–2010). The studies were localized in drained and agriculturally used Kuwasy Mire situated in the middle basin of the Biebrza River, north-eastern Poland. The study site was situated on a low peat soil managed as intensively used grassland. The soil was recognized as peat-muck in the second stage of the mucking process. DOC concentration was determined by means of the flow colorimetric method using the Skalar equipment.

Keywords

• DOC
• peat-muck soils
• redox potential
• soil solution
• soil temperature
• torrential rains
• gleby torfowo-murszowe
• intensywne opady deszczu
• potencjał elektryczny
• roztwór glebowy
• RWO
• temperatura gleby