Nutrient impoverishment increases when which pedogenic mechanism prevails?

💡 Explanation

When intense weathering increases in wet porous soils, preferential leaching dominates, thereby removing mobile nutrients. This results in nutrient impoverishment lower in subsurface, because cations are dissolved and transported by infiltrating water, therefore other soil horizons will not hold onto the particles rather than store them.

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