“…In the majority of P o compounds, P occurs as phosphate monoesters, phosphate diesters, and phosphonates (Cade-Menun, 2005;Turner et al, 2007;Vestergren et al, 2013). For soil and stream water samples it has been shown, using liquid-state 31 P-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( 31 P-NMR), that orthophosphate and phosphate monoesters are the dominant P forms, with inositolhexakisphosphate as the most common P o (Turner et al, 2005;Cade-Menun et al, 2006;Liu et al, 2014). Yet, all phosphate ions, polyphosphates, and P o compounds sorb to soil components to a different extent, in acidic soils (like our forest soil; pH 2.8-3.2) sorption is predominantly to Al-and Fe-(hydr)oxides (Hens and Merckx, 2001;Ilg et al, 2005;Kruse et al, 2015;Jiang et al, 2015a, b).…”