Soil acidification and the importance of liming agricultural soils with particular reference to the United Kingdom

• Published in: Soil use and management Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 390 - 399
• Main Author: Goulding, K. W. T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Acid deposition; Acidification; Acidity; Agricultural land; Agricultural production; agricultural soils; Aluminum; ammonia; Ammonium; carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide emissions; Cation exchange; cation exchange capacity; Cation exchanging; Cations; chemical bases; clay; Crop yield; crops; Farming; farming systems; Farms; fertilizer; Fertilizers; gases; grassland soils; Grasslands; greenhouse gas emissions; Land; legumes; Lime; lime requirement; Liming; liming materials; neutralization; Nitric acid; Nitrous oxide; nutrients; Review; Soil (material); Soil acidification; Soil pH; Soil Physico‐chemical Properties and Their Management; Soil quality; Soils; Sulfur dioxide; sulfur fertilizers; United Kingdom; Urea; urea fertilizers; British Isles; United Kingdom; soil acidification; Acid deposition; liming; fertilizer; lime requirement

Soil acidification is caused by a number of factors including acidic precipitation and the deposition from the atmosphere of acidifying gases or particles, such as sulphur dioxide, ammonia and nitric acid. The most important causes of soil acidification on agricultural land, however, are the applica...