Space-time patterns of soil pH in submountain beech ecosystems in the West Carpathians

Abstract: Janík R., Schieber B., Bublinec E. 2014: Space-time patterns of soil pH and conductivity in submountain beech ecosystems in the West Carpathians. Beskydy, 7 (2): 81-86 The results of pH values monitoring performed for 26 years (1988-2013) in Štiavnické vrchy Mts (middle Slovakia) are summarised. The accumulative trend of acidifying components of forest soils downwards the soil depth has been confirmed. The pH values of soil, exposed to a severe airborne pollution load in the past, were in general lower: from 5.42 in the surface humus decreasin