Forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification despite decline in sulphate emissions
Evidence from a multi-date regional-scale analysis of both high-flow and annual-average water quality data from Galloway, south-west Scotland, demonstrates that forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification. This is in spite of significant reductions in airborne pollutants. The...
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| description | Evidence from a multi-date regional-scale analysis of both high-flow and annual-average water quality data from Galloway, south-west Scotland, demonstrates that forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification. This is in spite of significant reductions in airborne pollutants. The relationship between freshwater sulphate and forest cover has decreased from 1996 to 2006 indicating a decrease in pollutant scavenging. The relationship between forest cover and freshwater acidity (pH) is, however, still present over the same period, and does not show conclusive signs of having declined. Furthermore, evidence for forest cover contributing to a chlorine bias in marine ion capture suggests that forest scavenging of sea-salts may mean that the forest acidification effect may continue in the absence of anthropogenic pollutant inputs, particularly in coastal areas. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:88389d25-969a-424e-a021-1199172de2252022-03-26T22:15:45ZForest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification despite decline in sulphate emissionsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:88389d25-969a-424e-a021-1199172de225EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2012Dunford, RDonoghue, DNMBurt, TPEvidence from a multi-date regional-scale analysis of both high-flow and annual-average water quality data from Galloway, south-west Scotland, demonstrates that forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification. This is in spite of significant reductions in airborne pollutants. The relationship between freshwater sulphate and forest cover has decreased from 1996 to 2006 indicating a decrease in pollutant scavenging. The relationship between forest cover and freshwater acidity (pH) is, however, still present over the same period, and does not show conclusive signs of having declined. Furthermore, evidence for forest cover contributing to a chlorine bias in marine ion capture suggests that forest scavenging of sea-salts may mean that the forest acidification effect may continue in the absence of anthropogenic pollutant inputs, particularly in coastal areas. |
| spellingShingle | Dunford, R Donoghue, DNM Burt, TP Forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification despite decline in sulphate emissions |
| title | Forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification despite decline in sulphate emissions |
| title_full | Forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification despite decline in sulphate emissions |
| title_fullStr | Forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification despite decline in sulphate emissions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification despite decline in sulphate emissions |
| title_short | Forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification despite decline in sulphate emissions |
| title_sort | forest land cover continues to exacerbate freshwater acidification despite decline in sulphate emissions |
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