Currently, this issue is targeted by the SLAvONIC project (Effects of soil alteration on nitrogen and carbon cycling, FP 7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG), focused on the research of influence of deposition on the organic matter cycle in the forest soils. All monthly measurements and replication experiments with soil-acidity manipulation and influence of chemical composition of soils (pH, easy access to N, P, C) on the organic-matter cycle in the soil ( (measurement of transformation of C and N – decomposition, mineralization, nitrification, composition of microbial associations, enzyme analyses) are complementarily conducted at two localities involving a well-developed spruce-dominated (80 years old) and beech–dominated (130 years old) forests. The common goal of the experiments is a better understanding of processes in the forest soils (regeneration out of acidification, eutrophication, climate´s change).
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