Estimation of soil base cation weathering rates with the PROFILE model to determine critical loads of acidity for forested ecosystems in Pennsylvania, USA: Pilot application of a potential national methodology

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 225, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Phelan, Jennifer ^a   Belyazid, Salim ^b   Kurz, Daniel ^c   Guthrie, Scott ^a   Cajka, James ^a   Sverdrup, Harald ^d   Waite, Randall ^e  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Belyazid Consulting and Communication AB   (Sweden)

^c EKG Geo Science ^*  (Switzerland)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Base cation; Critical acid load; Forest; Nitrogen; Sulfur; Weathering

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; POSITIVE IONS; SOIL TESTING; SULFUR; WEATHERING;

BASE CATIONS; FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PILOT APPLICATIONS; PROCESS-BASED MODELING; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS; WEATHERING RATES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

NITROGEN; SULFUR;

ACIDITY; DEPOSITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOIL; NITROGEN; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SULFUR; WEATHERING RATE;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PROFILE MODEL; SOIL BASE CATION WEATHERING RATE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; UNITED STATES; WEATHERING;

CATIONS; FORESTS; NITROGEN; SULFUR; WEATHERING;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84920273567     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-014-2109-4     Document Type: Article

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