Nitrogen deposition along differently exposed slopes in the Bavarian Alps

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 895-906

  Kirchner, Manfred ^a   Fegg, Wolfgang ^a   Römmelt, Horst ^b   Leuchner, Michael ^c   Ries, Ludwig ^d   Zimmermann, Ralf ^a   Michalke, Bernd ^a   Wallasch, Markus ^d   Maguhn, Jürgen ^a   Faus Kessler, Theresa ^a   Jakobi, Gert ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROE LABOR GmbH Umweltanalytik   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alps; Nitrogen; Spruce forest; Throughfall deposition; Vertical profiles

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; NITROGEN OXIDES;

ALPS; DEPOSITION VELOCITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCHES; SPRUCE FOREST; TEMPERATURE MONITORING; TERRAIN CHARACTERISTICS; THROUGHFALL DEPOSITION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

NITROGEN;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DRY DEPOSITION; FOREST CANOPY; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SLOPE; THROUGHFALL; VERTICAL PROFILE; WET DEPOSITION;

ARTICLE; CANOPY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DRY DEPOSITION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN UPTAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY; WET DEPOSITION;

ALPS; BAVARIAN ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS;

PICEA;

ALPS; NITROGEN; SPRUCE FOREST; THROUGHFALL DEPOSITION; VERTICAL PROFILES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALTITUDE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; NITROGEN; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84887335319     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.036     Document Type: Article

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