Published online 25 August 2005
Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 69:1658-1665 (2005)
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0068
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Sorption Characteristics of Phosphorus in Peat Soils of a Semiarid Altered Wetland
M. I. Litaora,*,
O. Reichmannb,
A. Haimb,
K. Auerswaldc and
M. Shenkerb
a Dep. of Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences, Tel-Hai College, Upper Galilee 12210, Israel
b Dep. of Soil Science, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
c Dep. of Grassland Science, Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Am Hochanger 1, D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

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Fig. 1. General location of the study area: (a) a historical superposition showing the drained Hula lake and wetlands (drained in the 1950s) and (b) the recent drainage canals and new lake Agmon; (c) the location of the soils in the deep peat (circles) and shallow peat soils (triangles).
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Fig. 2. Sorption characteristics of peat soils under aerobic vs. anaerobic experimental conditions.
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