THE COVARIANCE OF PHOSPHATE SORPTION WITH OTHER SOIL PROPERTIES IN SOME BRITISH AND TROPICAL SOILS |
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| Authors: | DANILO LOPEZ-HERNANDEZ C P BURNHAM |
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| Institution: | Wye College, University of London |
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| Abstract: | Phosphate sorption capacity estimated by Piper's (1942) ‘anion exchange capacity’ and Bache and Williams's (1971) phosphate sorption index were correlated with soil pH, clay, organic matter, ‘free iron oxides’ and ‘extractable aluminium’ (McLean et al., 1958) for topsoil and subsoil samples from twenty tropical and twenty British acidic soil profiles. These two groups of soils did not differ significantly in phosphate sorption. Extractable aluminium and free iron oxide were well correlated with phosphate sorption, free iron oxide being superior to aluminium in freely drained British soils but not in poorly drained ones. Organic matter content correlated well with phosphate sorption for the poorly drained British soils, and for the tropical soils when sorption capacitywas measured using a high phosphate concentration. |
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