Abstract
Soil solution analysis may provide useful information on nutrition status and Al toxicity in soil. Nevertheless, obtaining soil solutions in low-moisture soils causes a problem. Saturated extracts may act as an alternative for getting information on soil solution. Their effectiveness in assessing representative base cations and aluminum distribution in soil solution was demonstrated in this study. Saturated extracts, which were obtained from air drying and fresh soil, were compared with the "true" soil solution for base distribution and base/Al ratio. Molar fraction and equilibrium ratio in the "true" soil solution depended on soil moisture before extraction. Nevertheless, they were less affected by this approach than intrinsic concentrations. The results showed that molar fraction and equilibrium ratio in soil solution can be predicted from the molar fraction or equilibrium ratio in saturated extracts and soil moisture information, however, saturated extracts obtained from fresh soil were better models. Base/Al ratios in saturated extracts were closely dependent on pH extracts but they were not well linked with the same ratio in soil solution. Key words: Soil solution, molar fraction, equilibrium ratio, soil acidity, sugar maple, Acer saccharum
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