Effects of sample handling on some chemical properties of soils from high rainfall coastal north Queensland
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Soil Research
- Vol. 21 (1) , 67-72
- https://doi.org/10.1071/sr9830067
Abstract
The effects of drying, storing in an air-dry condition, and collecting samples at different times of the year, on cation exchange properties and phosphate sorption characteristics have been examined for two soils from coastal north Queensland. The properties measured are independent of sampling time, but both air-drying and storage reduced the capacity of these soils to sorb phosphorus.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Effect of drying soil on the measurement of phosphate adsorptionCommunications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 1980
- A proposed method for the measurement of exchange properties of highly weathered soilsSoil Research, 1979