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Explain why water logged soils are usually deficient in nitrates​

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Low levels of oxygen in/by the root zone causes soil & plants to turn deficient and die .

another reason is because anaerobic microbes that have gotten waterlogged create a toxic/bad waste that harms its surrounding living plants.

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