Environmental Modelling at Nottingham

Solubility of Cu, Ni and Pb in soils

Many authors agree that soil solution activity of an ion is better indicator of its potential for plant uptake than total soil concentration.

We believe that rather simple solubility algorithms can be used to predict soil solution activity for many metals using just a few readily derived soil characteristics.

In the case of Cu, Ni and Pb the approach is fully described in:

Tye AM, Young SD, Crout NMJ, Zhang H, Preston S, Zhao FJ, McGrath SP (2004). Speciation and solubility of Cu, Ni and Pb in contaminated soils. European Journal of Soil Science. 55:579-590