Abstract:Soil solution is called "soil blood", which is the medium of various biochemical reactions in the soil. When the external environment changes, the chemical composition of the soil solution can quickly respond to the environmental changes before other soil indicators have changed. In order to explore the impact of increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition on forest ecosystems, we set up three N treatments including the control (CK, 0 g m-2 a-1), low N (LN, 5 g m-2 a-1), and high N (HN, 15 g m-2 a-1) in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in the raining area of west China, artificially applied ammonium nitrate to simulate the increase of N deposition (replaced with sodium nitrate and ammonium chloride since September 2017). After 42 months of N treatment, soil solution from two soil layers (layer A:37-45 cm, layer B:52-60 cm) was collected using negative pressure soil solution sampler and analyzed chemical composition once a month for a year. In CK, soil solution NO3- concentration reached (3.94±0.77) mg/L (layer A) and (4.27±1.13) mg/L (layer B). Nitrogen additions significantly increased soil solution NO3- and NH4+ concentration in layer B. Nitrogen additions significantly reduced soil solution pH value and increased Al3+ concentration, and the concent of Ca2+ and Mg2+ increased with no significant in statistics. Nitrogen treatment significantly reduced the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration in layer A, and had no significant effect on the aromatic index (AI) of soil solution in the two layers. The electrical conductivity (EC) and the redox potential (Eh) of soil solution increased significantly in two soil layers. In addition, many chemical components in the soil solution of two layers had extremely significant correlation, especially the correlation coefficient between NO3- and EC reached 0.855. In this study, the extremely high NO3- concentration in CK and higher NO3- concentration in layer B than in layer A indicated that the nitrogen availability of the subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest exceeded the total nutrient requirements of plants and microorganisms, and the ecosystem had reached the state of nitrogen saturation. In addition, nitrogen addition significantly promoted soil acidification and aluminum activation. The decrease of DOC in surface soil solution to some extent reflected the inhibition of litter decomposition by nitrogen addition. The significant increase of redox potential may lead to the decrease of the mobility of some metal elements in the soil.