Assessment of the cycle and availability of major and trace alkali and alkaline earth metals in the coastal Carmel Ridge
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Assessment of the cycle and availability of major and trace alkali and alkaline earth metals in the coastal Carmel Ridge, eastern Mediterranean F. S. Kot1 · M. Kochva1 Received: 4 June 2020 / Accepted: 29 September 2020 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract Major alkali and alkaline earth metals (Na, K, Mg, Ca) have been investigated extensively due to their role in soil, natural waters, living organisms, and agriculture, whilst their trace congeners (Li, Rb, Sr, Ba) are less well studied. Such information is of special interest for semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems, in which these elements are believed to accumulate during prolonged dry seasons. However, data on the speciation, (bio)availability, and cycling of these metals are limited. We studied the fluxes of these metals in truly dissolved/reactive and ʻoperationally dissolvedʼ (microfiltrate,
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