Dorman, Mississippi test site

Site Information

Organization: Mississippi State University
Contact person: Beth Stokes
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The Dorman Lake site is located in the Upper Coastal Plain region of northeast Mississippi near Mississippi State University (MS). A Falkner soil (Aquic Paleudalf) comprises the forested site. Falkner soils are deep, somewhat poorly drained, acid soil with a silt loam surface horizon and clayey subsoils.

The Falkner Dorman Lake silt loam surface horizon has 622 % more clay, 263 % more silt, and 645 % less sand contents than the coarser textured McLaurin soil at the Saucier site. The Dorman Lake soil is very strongly acidic with a pH of 4.8. Dorman Lake has fair copper tolerant fungal activity and moderate termite activity.

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