Some Effects of the Plantation of Conifers on a Freely Drained Lowland Soil, Forest of Dean, U.K.

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Abstract
Acid brown soils under 50-year-old conifer plantations are compared with those at a control site under the previous vegetation of mixed deciduous woodland. The soils under the conifers show significant signs of podzolization and associated with this, evidence of structural breakdown. The implications of these changes are briefly discussed.