Table 13 Influence of climate/altitude levels and natural balance components on the formation of the plant-available humus level (after Scheffer and Ulrich [51])
Soil texture | Hydromorph | Anhydromorph in climate/altitude zone | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
With Groundwater influence | With Stagnic water influence | Ridge zone, higher mountain zone | Middle mountain zone | Lower mountains and hill country | Lower mountains and hill country | Lowland | Lower mountains and hill country | Lowland | With erosion-induced removal | ||
All climate zones | With humid cool climate | With moderately dry climate | With dry warm climate | ||||||||
Sand | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | |
Slightly loamy sand | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |
Silty sand | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |
Strong loamy sand | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
Clayey loam, sandy clay | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |
Silt, loess | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |
Clay | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | |