Soil sensitivity to acidification in Asia: Status and prospects

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 295-303

  Hicks, W Kevin ^a   Kuylenstierna, Johan C I ^a   Owen, Anne ^a   Dentener, Frank ^b   Seip, Hans Martin ^c   Rodhe, Henning ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACID SOIL; ACIDIFICATION; BIOMASS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL TYPE;

ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACIDS; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HAINAN; INDIA; LAOS; MYANMAR; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; VIET NAM; WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 48249086474     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[295:SSTAIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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65. Acknowledgments: We would like to thank Mike Ashmore, Phil Ineson, Mike Chadwick, Malcolm Cresser, Jeff Wilson, Simon Langan, Mats Olsson, and Torbjörn Nilsson for their valuable advice on the development of this paper. We would also like to thank Michael Schulz for the use of the modeled calcite deposition data and Laurence Blake and Thorjørn Larssen for advice and access to data from the Rothamsted (UK) and Birkenes (Norway) long-term studies, respectively.
66. First submitted 8 August 2007. Accepted for publication 23 January 2008.