Critical loads of acidity to surface waters: An empirical diatom-based palaeolimnological model

AMBIO

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 366-369

  Battarbee, Richard W ^a,b   Allott, Tim E H ^a,c   Juggins, Steve ^d   Kreiser, Annette M ^a   Curtis, Chris ^a,c   Harriman, Ron ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi   (Norway)

^c UCL

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

ACIDIFICATION; CRITICAL LOAD; EMISSION REDUCTION; PALAEOLIMNOLOGICAL MODEL; SULPHUR DIOXIDE; SURFACE WATER;

EID: 0029659987     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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20. This research was funded by the UK Department of the Environment We are also grateful to all members of the CLAG Freshwaters Sub-group for discussions on critical loads modelling Jane Hall from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood, provided Figures 4 and 5 The remaining figures were drawn by Guy Baker.
21. We should like to thank Dr Arne Henriksen and an anonymous reviewer for helpful advice on this paper.
22. First submitted 30 January 1995. Accepted fur publication after revision 26 July 1995.