Spruce site Wal: Soil data								

Soil classification:								
 								
	Cambic Podzol (FAO).   Data from Gttlein et al. (1995)							


Profile description								
remarks:	Data from Gttlein et al. (1995)							
	Cambic Podzol on Granite; Humus: raw humus (rohhumusartiger Moder in German)							

Soil layer	Depth [cm]	Description (in words)						
L	8.5-7.9	Deschampsia flexuosa + needles						
Of	7.9-3.5	Deschampsia roots + needle fragments						
Oh	3.5-0.0	many spruce roots 						
Ahe	0.0-9.0	sandy loam						
Bhs	9.0-23.6	loam			
Bsv	23.6-37.5	loam			
BvCv	37.5-54.3	loam			
(II)Cv	>54.3	sandy loam			


 	Soil density	Stoniness	% Clay	% Org C	
Soil layer	[g cm-3]	[%]	[%]	[%]	
L					
Of					
Oh					
Ahe	0.95	3	12		
Bhs	0.73	10	12		
Bsv	1	20	15		
BvCv	1.35	5			
(II)Cv	1.59	30			
													
													
Soil characteristics													
remarks:	Data from T. Persson (2000a); method:  T Persson et al (2000)												
	Sampling date 26 & 27 April 1995; number of samplings is 4. 												

	Dry weight [g m-2]		%C		%N		pH(H2O)		pH(KCl)				
Soil layer	mean	stdev	mean	stdev	mean	stdev	mean	stdev	mean	stdev	 	 	 
L	874	212	49.66	0.78	2.06	0.11	4.72	0.17	3.55	0.12			
FH	14758	2724	37.71	4.96	1.70	0.27	3.69	0.17	2.67	0.02			
0-10	80322	18465	5.91	2.11	0.24	0.11	3.52	0.07	2.70	0.05			
10-20	61721	17672	5.80	1.82	0.23	0.08	3.80	0.11	3.20	0.21			
20-30	60160	11883	5.17	1.53	0.20	0.06	4.26	0.08	3.88	0.16			
30-50	180522	33261	2.01	0.75	0.09	0.03	4.44	0.06	4.11	0.07			


Cation exchange capacity and exchangeable fractions												
remarks:	1992 data from Matschonat and Matzner (1995): NH4-N: extracted with 1 M KCl											
	other data from Gttlein et al. (1995) 1n NH4Cl-extract											
 	 	 	 	 								
	 	CEC	Base saturation	pH-H2O	Exchangeable cations							
					H	Na	K	NH4-N	Ca	Mg	Al	
Soil layer	year	[mmolc kg-1]	[%]		[mmolc kg-1]	[mmolc kg-1]	[mmolc kg-1]	[mmolc kg-1]	[mmolc kg-1]	[mmolc kg-1]	[mmolc kg-1]	
L		206.15	80.07	4.04	36.39	4.48	35.68		106.83	15.83	21.27	 
Of		206.25	47.55	3.57	106.79	4.41	6.78		75.78	9.01	67.56	
Oh		151.44	38.74	3.39	91.86	3.65	4.98		42.58	6.06	116.73	
Oh	1992	 		 		 	 	286	 	 	 	
Ahe		84.58	11.4	3.47	28.1	1.53	1.32		4.21	0.91	88.92	
Ahe	1992	 		 		 	 	139	 	 	 	
Bhs		166.08	3.79	3.79	3.09	1.43	0.82		1.74	0.53	152.73	
Bhs	1992	 		 		 	 	116	 	 	 	
Bsv		75.17	6.6	4.21	0.57	1.32	0.77		0.67	0.18	69.72	
Bsv	1992	 		 		 	 	171	 	 	 
BvCv		43.54	10.91	4.32	0.18	1.37	1.04		0.39	0.09	38.65
(II) Cv		29.98	14.01	4.36	0.11	1.13	0.86		0.3	0.09	25.69
											
											
Soil water retention characteristics											
remarks:	data from Dr. Gunnar Lischeid (2000). BITOEK-Bayreuth										

	Soil moisture content at										
	Saturation	Field capacity	Air dry	Permanent 							
				wilting point							
Soil layer	[%]	[%]	[%]	[%]							
L											
FH											
Ahe	64	50.1	38.4	n.m.							
Bhs	72	55.9	45.1	n.m.							
Bsv	62	43	35.6	n.m.							
BvCv	49	34.2	29.1	n.m.							
(II)Cv	40	27.6	20.5	n.m.							


Actual soil moisture content											
remarks:	data from Dr. Gunnar Lischeid (2000). BITOEK-Bayreuth										

		Mean actual soil moisture content [%]									
 	 	Depth									
year	month	20 cm	35 cm	90 cm							
1994	1										
1994	2										
1994	3										
1994	4										
1994	5	35.88	39.97	31.94	 						
1994	6	33.30	38.37	31.76
1994	7	28.88	36.48	29.89
1994	8	29.84	37.39	29.63
1994	9	31.90	39.98	33.64
1994	10	32.52	40.12	34.09
1994	11			
1994	12			

1995	1			
1995	2			
1995	3			
1995	4			
1995	5			
1995	6			
1995	7			
1995	8			
1995	9			
1995	10			
1995	11	26.04	38.70	
1995	12	19.17	30.39	
				
1996	1	11.91	17.62	
1996	2	8.66	11.59	
1996	3	14.41	18.21	
1996	4	18.86	23.62	
1996	5	21.80	25.71	34.47
1996	6	20.59	24.37	33.54
1996	7	21.36	25.28	33.22
1996	8	21.39	25.12	32.90
1996	9	21.89	25.04	32.99
1996	10	22.32	25.65	32.94
1996	11	22.55	26.08	32.79
1996	12	22.33	25.52	32.89
				
1997	1	18.47	17.34	32.85
1997	2	18.72	19.31	33.50
1997	3		21.48	34.76
1997	4		21.56	33.21
1997	5	20.77	21.22	
1997	6	19.76	20.09	31.50
1997	7	19.53	20.20	29.99
1997	8	18.90	20.93	30.70
1997	9	15.42	18.60	29.98
1997	10	13.99	18.46	28.60
1997	11	17.93	19.86	28.66
1997	12	18.25	22.48	32.15
				
1998	1	20.44	22.52	34.69
1998	2	20.37	23.05	34.51
1998	3	21.57	23.51	35.57
1998	4	21.39		34.67
1998	5			33.28
1998	6			
1998	7			
1998	8			
1998	9			
1998	10			
1998	11			
1998	12			
