A decade of monitoring at Swiss Long-Term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) sites: Can we observe trends in atmospheric acid deposition and in soil solution acidity?

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 174, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 3-30

  Graf Pannatier, Elisabeth ^a   Thimonier, Anne ^a   Schmitt, Maria ^a   Walthert, Lorenz ^a   Waldner, Peter ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acid deposition; Acidification; ICP Forests; Soil solution

Indexed keywords

ACID DEPOSITION; AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BASE CATIONS; BULK DEPOSITIONS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SITES; ICP-FORESTS; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MOLAR RATIO; N DEPOSITION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL SOLUTION; SOIL SOLUTION CHEMISTRY; SOIL SOLUTIONS; STUDY SITES; SWITZERLAND; THROUGHFALL;

ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; AIR QUALITY; ALUMINUM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; POSITIVE IONS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FOREST SOIL;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACID PRECIPITATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; SOIL ACIDIFICATION; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL DEPTH; SWITZERLAND; TREND STUDY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ACIDS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RESEARCH; SOIL; SWITZERLAND;

ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; AIR QUALITY; ALUMINUM; CATIONS; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; MOISTURE CONTENT; POLLUTION;

EID: 79952449104     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1754-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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