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Kopáček J, Bače R, Choma M, Hejzlar J, Kaňa J, Oulehle F, Porcal P, Svoboda M, Tahovská K. Carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes in unmanaged mountain Norway spruce forests, and losses after natural tree dieback. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 903:166233. [PMID: 37572919 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/14/2023]
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Forest areas infected by insects are increasing in Europe and North America due to accelerating climate change. A 2000-2020 mass budget study on major elements (C, N, P, Ca, Mg, K) in the atmosphere-plant-soil-water systems of two unmanaged catchments enabled us to evaluate changes in pools and fluxes related to tree dieback and long-term accumulation/losses during the post-glacial period. A bark-beetle outbreak killed >75 % of all trees in a mature mountain spruce forest in one catchment and all dead biomass was left on site. A similar forest in a nearby catchment was only marginally affected. We observed that: (1) the long-term (millennial) C and N accumulation in soils averaged 10-22 and 0.5-1.1 kg ha-1 yr-1, respectively, while losses of Ca, Mg, and K from soils ranged from 0.1 to 2.6 kg ha-1 yr-1. (2) Only <0.8 % and <1.5 % of the respective total C and N fluxes entering the soil annually from vegetation were permanently stored in soils. (3) The post-disturbance decomposition of dead tree biomass reduced vegetation element pools from 27 % (C) to 73 % (P) between 2004 and 2019. (4) Tree dieback decreased net atmospheric element inputs to the impacted catchment, and increased the leaching of all elements and gaseous losses of C (∼2.3 t ha-1 yr-1) and N (∼14 kg ha-1 yr-1). The disturbed catchment became a net C source, but ∼50 % of the N released from dead biomass accumulated in soils. (5) Despite the severe forest disturbance, the dissolved losses of Ca and Mg represented 52-58 % of their leaching from intact stands during the peaking atmospheric acidification from 1970 to 1990. (6) Disturbance-related net leaching of P, Ca, Mg, and K were 4, 69, 16, and 114 kg ha-1, respectively, which represented 7-38 % of the losses potentially related to sanitary logging and subsequent removal of the aboveground tree biomass.
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- Jiří Kopáček
- Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Science, Prague, Czech Republic
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- University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Klárov 3, 11821 Prague 1, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Science, Prague, Czech Republic
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- University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Guan Y, Hou T, Li X, Feng L, Wang Z. Metagenomic insights into comparative study of nitrogen metabolic potential and microbial community between primitive and urban river sediments. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 212:113592. [PMID: 35654160 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2022] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/29/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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As a result of anthropogenic pollution, the nitrogen nutrients load in urban rivers has increased, potentially raising the risk of river eutrophication. Here, we studied how anthropogenic impacts alter nitrogen metabolism in river sediments by comparing the metagenomic function of microbial communities between relatively primitive and human-disturbed sediments. The contents of organic matter (OM), total nitrogen (TN), NO3--N and NO2--N were higher in primitive site than in polluted sites, which might be due to vegetation density, sediment type, hydrology, etc. Whereas, NH4+-N content was higher in midstream and downstream, indicating that nitrogen loading increased in the anthropogenic regions and subsequently leading higher NH4+-N. Hierarchical cluster analyses revealed significant changes in the community structure and functional potential between the primitive and human-affected sites. Metagenomic analysis demonstrated that Demequina, Streptomyces, Rubrobacter and Dechloromonas were the predominant denitrifiers. Ardenticatena and Dechloromonas species were the most important contributors to dissimilatory nitrate reduction. Furthermore, anthropogenic pollution significantly increased their abundance, and resulting in a decrease in NO3-, NO2--N and an increase in NH4+-N contents. Additionally, the SOX metabolism of Dechloromonas and Sulfuritalea may involve in the sulfur-dependent autotrophic denitrification process by coupling the conversion of thiosulfate to sulfate with the reduction of NO3--N to N2. From pristine to anthropogenic pollution sediments, the major nitrifying bacteria harboring Hao transitioned from Nitrospira to Nitrosomonas. This study sheds light on the consequences of anthropogenic activities on nitrogen metabolism in river sediments, allowing for better management of nitrogen pollution and eutrophication in river.
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- Yongjing Guan
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China.
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Vizuete-Jaramillo E, Grahmann K, Mora Palomino L, Méndez-Barroso L, Robles-Morua A. Using ion-exchange resins to monitor nitrate fluxes in remote semiarid stream beds. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2022; 194:376. [PMID: 35437732 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-022-10041-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Monitoring in remote areas can represent a real challenge in environmental studies. Numerous techniques have been developed over the last decades to monitor nutrients and other elements in different systems. However, not all of them are suitable for field applications, particularly when the locations are difficult to access or its accessibility depends on seasonal climate conditions. This study was aimed to test the applicability and efficiency of resin samplers and resin bags to monitor nitrates fluxes (NO3-N) in two small semi-arid catchments in Northwestern Mexico. Resin samplers were installed in the hyporheic zone below the river bed in order to monitor the vertical fluxes of NO3-N and remained there for 5 months (during the summer rains). Resin bags were anchored in rock outcrops upstream of the resin samplers before the onset of the summer rainfall season and replaced every 2 weeks during 4 months to capture pulses of NO3-N in ephemeral streams. NO3-N pulses in the stream are a potential source of NO3-N that can infiltrate into the soil. Results of the resin samplers found a difference of up to 12 kg ha-1 season-1 between the two catchments. The resin bags showed a higher accumulation of NO3-N in the catchment with lower vegetation cover (160.3 mg L-1 season-1) compared to the one with higher vegetation (67.8 mg L-1 season-1). Measured nitrate fluxes at both sites responded to rainfall pulses recorded during the monitoring period. Resin samplers and resin bags can be used together, to assess nutrient fluxes on the surface and in the soil and can be tested in any type of ecosystem. In this particular case, these methods demonstrated an efficient way of determining spatio-temporal nitrate fluxes in semi-arid ecosystems in remote areas that are difficult to access, monitor, and collect data.
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- Efrain Vizuete-Jaramillo
- Departamento de Ciencias del Agua Y del Medio Ambiente, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (ITSON), Cd. Obregón, México
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- Working Group "Resource-Efficient Cropping Systems", Research Area 2 "Landuse and Goverance", Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales Y del Suelo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México, D.F., México
- Laboratorio Nacional de Geoquímica Y Mineralogía (LANGEM), México, D.F., México
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- Departamento de Ciencias del Agua Y del Medio Ambiente, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (ITSON), Cd. Obregón, México
- Laboratorio Nacional de Resiliencia Costera (LANSREC), Sisal, Yucatán, México
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- Departamento de Ciencias del Agua Y del Medio Ambiente, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (ITSON), Cd. Obregón, México.
- Laboratorio Nacional de Geoquímica Y Mineralogía (LANGEM), México, D.F., México.
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Burpee BT, Saros JE, Nanus L, Baron J, Brahney J, Christianson KR, Ganz T, Heard A, Hundey B, Koinig KA, Kopáček J, Moser K, Nydick K, Oleksy I, Sadro S, Sommaruga R, Vinebrooke R, Williams J. Identifying factors that affect mountain lake sensitivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across multiple scales. WATER RESEARCH 2022; 209:117883. [PMID: 34864346 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2021] [Revised: 11/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Increased nitrogen (N) deposition rates over the past century have affected both North American and European mountain lake ecosystems. Ecological sensitivity of mountain lakes to N deposition varies, however, because chemical and biological responses are modulated by local watershed and lake properties. We evaluated predictors of mountain lake sensitivity to atmospheric N deposition across North American and European mountain ranges and included as response variables dissolved inorganic N (DIN = NNH4+ + NNO3-) concentrations and phytoplankton biomass. Predictors of these responses were evaluated at three different spatial scales (hemispheric, regional, subregional) using regression tree, random forest, and generalized additive model (GAM) analysis. Analyses agreed that Northern Hemisphere mountain lake DIN was related to N deposition rates and smaller scale spatial variability (e.g., regional variability between North American and European lakes, and subregional variability between mountain ranges). Analyses suggested that DIN, N deposition, and subregional variability were important for Northern Hemisphere mountain lake phytoplankton biomass. Together, these findings highlight the need for finer-scale, subregional analyses (by mountain range) of lake sensitivity to N deposition. Subregional analyses revealed differences in predictor variables of lake sensitivity. In addition to N deposition rates, lake and watershed features such as land cover, bedrock geology, maximum lake depth (Zmax), and elevation were common modulators of lake DIN. Subregional phytoplankton biomass was consistently positively related with total phosphorus (TP) in Europe, while North American locations showed variable relationships with N or P. This study reveals scale-dependent watershed and lake characteristics modulate mountain lake ecological responses to atmospheric N deposition and provides important context to inform empirically based management strategies.
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- Benjamin T Burpee
- Climate Change Institute and School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA.
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- Climate Change Institute and School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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- Department of Geography and Environment, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 80526, USA
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- Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
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- Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Sierra Nevada Network, National Park Service, Three Rivers, CA, USA
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- Centre for Teaching and Learning, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Geography, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, CA, USA; Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO, USA
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- Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Lewiston Regional Office, Lewiston, ID, USA
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Kopáček J, Kaňa J, Porcal P, Stuchlík E. Diverse effects of accelerating climate change on chemical recovery of alpine lakes from acidic deposition in soil-rich versus scree-rich catchments. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 284:117522. [PMID: 34261223 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Revised: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The current recovery of mountain lakes from atmospheric acidification is increasingly affected (both accelerated and/or delayed) by climate change. We evaluated long-term trends in the ionic composition of 30 lakes situated in the alpine zone of the Tatra Mountains, and compared the rates of their recovery with model (MAGIC) simulations done 20 years ago for the 2003-2020 period. The observed recovery was faster than the model forecast, due to greater reductions in acidic deposition than projected. Trends in water composition were further modified by climate change. Rising temperatures increased the length of the growing season and retention of inorganic N and SO42- more in soil-rich compared with soil-poor catchments. In contrast, elevated precipitation and an increase in rainfall intensity reduced water residence time in soils, and consequently reduced N retention, especially in soil-poor catchments. It is likely that increases in rainfall intensity and annual number of days without snow, along with air temperatures fluctuating around the freezing point elevated the physical erosion of rocks, especially in high-elevation, steep, and scree-rich areas where rocks are not thermally insulated and stabilized by soils. Weathering of exposed accessory calcite in the eroded granodiorite bedrock was a source of Ca2+ and HCO3-, while S-bearing minerals likely contributed to lake water SO42- and partly mitigated its deposition-related decrease in scree-rich catchments. The extent of climate effects on changes in the water composition of alpine lakes recovering from acidic deposition thus depended on elevation and cover of soil and scree in catchments. Our results highlight the need for incorporating dominant climate-related process into existing process-based models to increase their reliability in predicting the future development of lake water composition.
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- Jiří Kopáček
- Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, CZ-370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, CZ-370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, CZ-370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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Kaste Ø, Austnes K, de Wit HA. Streamwater responses to reduced nitrogen deposition at four small upland catchments in Norway. AMBIO 2020; 49:1759-1770. [PMID: 32535875 PMCID: PMC7502627 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-020-01347-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 05/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Reduced emissions of nitrogen (N) in Europe have resulted in decreasing atmospheric deposition since 1990. Long-term data (1988-2017) from four small Norwegian catchments located along gradients in N deposition, rainfall, and organic carbon (C) show different responses to 25-30% reductions in N deposition during the same period. At three sites the decreased N deposition caused reduced leaching of nitrate to surface water, whereas the westernmost site showed no decrease, probably due to thin soils with low C:N ratio, poor vegetation cover and high precipitation. The loss of total N to streamwater constituted 30-50% of the N deposition. Losses via denitrification are unknown but assumed to be low, as a major fraction of the catchments are well-drained. Hence, the study sites seem to continue to accumulate N, presumably mostly in soil organic matter. Although atmospheric N deposition has declined, ambient loads might still exceed long-term sustainable levels in these vulnerable ecosystems.
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- Øyvind Kaste
- Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalleen 21, 0348 Oslo, Norway
- Centre for Coastal Research, University of Agder, PO box 422, 4604 Kristiansand, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalleen 21, 0348 Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalleen 21, 0348 Oslo, Norway
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Jacquemin C, Bertrand C, Franquet E, Mounier S, Misson B, Oursel B, Cavalli L. Effects of catchment area and nutrient deposition regime on phytoplankton functionality in alpine lakes. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 674:114-127. [PMID: 31004889 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Revised: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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High mountain lakes are a network of sentinels, sensitive to any events occurring within their waterbodies, their surrounding catchment and their airshed. In this paper, we investigate how catchments impact the taxonomic and functional composition of phytoplankton communities in high mountain lakes, and how this impact varies according to the atmospheric nutrient deposition regime. For two years, we sampled the post snow-melt and the late summer phytoplankton, with a set of biotic and abiotic parameters, in six French alpine lakes with differing catchments (size and vegetation cover) and contrasting nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) deposition regimes. Whatever the nutrient deposition regime, we found that the lakes with the smallest rocky catchments showed the lowest functional richness of phytoplankton communities. The lakes with larger vegetated catchments were characterized by the coexistence of phytoplankton taxa with more diverse strategies in the acquisition and utilization of nutrient resources. The nutrient deposition regime appeared to interact with catchment characteristics in determining which functional groups ultimately developed in lakes. Photoautotroph taxa dominated the phytoplankton assemblages under high NP deposition regime while mixotroph taxa were even more favored in lakes with large vegetated catchments under low NP deposition regime. Phytoplankton functional changes were likely related to the leaching of terrestrial organic matter from catchments evidenced by analyses of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) stable isotope ratios in seston and zooplankton. Plankton δ15N values indicated greater water-soil interaction in lakes with larger vegetated catchments, while δ13C values indicated the effective mineralization of the organic matter in lakes. The role played by catchments should be considered when seeking to determine the vulnerability of high altitude lakes to future changes, as catchments' own properties will vary under changes related to climate and airborne contaminants.
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- Coralie Jacquemin
- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Marseille, France.
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Marseille, France.
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Marseille, France.
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- Aix Marseille Univ., Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, 13288, Marseille, France.
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- Aix Marseille Univ., Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, 13288, Marseille, France.
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Marseille, France.
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Marseille, France.
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Freppaz M, Viglietti D, Balestrini R, Lonati M, Colombo N. Climatic and pedoclimatic factors driving C and N dynamics in soil and surface water in the alpine tundra (NW-Italian Alps). NATURE CONSERVATION 2019. [DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.34.30737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In alpine tundra the interannual and seasonal variability of C and N forms in soil and lake water during the short snow-free season could be significant and related to climatic and pedoclimatic variables. The hypothesis that not only the climatic and pedoclimatic parameters recorded during the summer season but also the ones measured during the previous snow-covered season could contribute to explaining the C and N dynamics in soil and surface water was tested along 10 snow-free seasons in 3 sites in the alpine tundra in the north-western Italian Alps (LTER site Istituto Mosso). Among the considered parameters, the snow cover duration (SCD) exerted a primary control on soil N-NH4+, DOC, Cmicr, Nmicr and DOC:DON ratio, with an inverse relationship. A long SCD might cause the consumption of all the subnival substrata by the soil microorganisms, determining a C starvation during the subsequent snow-free season. An opposite trend was observed for the lake water, where a longer SCD corresponded to a higher content of inorganic N forms. Among the pedoclimatic indices, the number of soil freeze/thaw cycles (FTC) recorded during the snow-covered season had a positive relation with most of soil C and N forms and N-NO3− in lake water. Only the soil DON showed an inverse pattern, and this result is consistent with the hypothesis that FTC released soil DON, subsequently decomposed and mineralized. Only N-NO3− had a significant intraseasonal variability, reaching the highest values in September both in soil and water, revealing a significant slowdown of the contribution of soil N immobilization processes.
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Dočkalová K, Holubcová J, Bacardit M, Bartrons M, Camarero L, Gallego E, Grimalt JO, Hardekopf D, Hořická Z, Rosseland BO, Tátosová J, Stuchlík E. Brown and brook trout populations in the Tatra Mountain lakes (Slovakia, Poland) and contamination by long-range transported pollutants. Biologia (Bratisl) 2015. [DOI: 10.1515/biolog-2015-0052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Santolaria Z, Arruebo T, Urieta JS, Lanaja FJ, Pardo A, Matesanz J, Rodriguez-Casals C. Hydrochemistry dynamics in remote mountain lakes and its relation to catchment and atmospheric features: the case study of Sabocos Tarn, Pyrenees. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 22:231-247. [PMID: 25060309 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3310-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 07/07/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Increasing the understanding of high mountain lake dynamics is essential to use these remote aquatic ecosystems as proxies of global environmental changes. With this aim, at Sabocos, a Pyrenean cirque glacial lake or tarn, this study shows the main results of a morphological and catchment characterization, along with statistical analyses of its hydrochemical trends and their concomitant driving factors from 2010 to 2013. Dissolved oxygen, water temperature stratification, and its snow and ice cover composition and dynamics have been also investigated. According to morphological analyses, Sabocos can be classified as a medium-large and deep lake, having a circular contour and a long water retention time as compared to Pyrenean glacial lake average values. Sabocos hydrochemistry is mainly determined by very high alkalinity, pH and conductivity levels, and high Ca(2+), Mg(2+), and SO4(2-) content, coming from the easily weatherable limestone-dolomite bedrock. Thus, lake water is well buffered, and therefore, Sabocos tarn is non-sensitive to acidification processes. On the other hand, the main source of K(+), Na(+), and Cl(-) (sea salts) and nutrients (NH4(+), NO3(-), and phosphorous) to lake water appears to be atmospheric deposition. Primary production is phosphorous limited, and due to the N-saturation stage of the poorly developed soils of Sabocos catchment, NO3(-) is the chief component in the total nitrogen pool. External temperature seems to be the major driver regulating lake productivity, since warm temperatures boot primary production. Although precipitation might also play an important role in lake dynamics, especially regarding to those parameters influenced by the weathering of the bedrock, its influence cannot be easily assessed due to the seasonal isolation produced by the ice cover. Also, as occurs in the whole Pyrenean lake district, chemical composition of bulk deposition is highly variable due to the contribution of air masses with different origin.
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- Zoe Santolaria
- Grupo de Termodinámica Aplicada y Superficies (GATHERS), Departamento de Química-Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, c/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain,
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Kopáček J, Hejzlar J, Posch M. Factors controlling the export of nitrogen from agricultural land in a large central European catchment during 1900-2010. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2013; 47:6400-6407. [PMID: 23668388 DOI: 10.1021/es400181m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Using an empirical model, we quantified the nitrogen (N) export from agricultural land in a large central European catchment (upper Vltava river, Czech Republic, about 13,000 km(2)) over the 1959-2010 period. The catchment witnessed a rapid socio-economic shift from a planned to a market economy in the 1990s, resulting in an abrupt (~50%) reduction in N fertilization rates at otherwise relatively stable land-use practices. This large-scale "experiment" enabled disentangling and quantification of individual effects of N fertilization and drainage on N leaching. The model is based on a two-step regression between annual N export and three independent variables: (i) annual average discharge in the first step and (ii) net anthropogenic nitrogen inputs (NANI) and proportion of drained agricultural land in the second step. Results show that N export was more related to mineralization of soil organic N pools due to drainage and tillage than to external N sources (NANI). The model, together with other reconstructed N sources in the catchment (leaching from forests, waste waters, and atmospheric deposition) and extrapolated back to 1900, explained 77% of the observed variability in N concentrations in the Vltava river during the 1900-2010 period.
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- Jiří Kopáček
- Biology Centre AS CR, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Oulehle F, Cosby BJ, Wright RF, Hruška J, Kopáček J, Krám P, Evans CD, Moldan F. Modelling soil nitrogen: the MAGIC model with nitrogen retention linked to carbon turnover using decomposer dynamics. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2012; 165:158-166. [PMID: 22459669 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.02.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2011] [Revised: 02/09/2012] [Accepted: 02/21/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We present a new formulation of the acidification model MAGIC that uses decomposer dynamics to link nitrogen (N) cycling to carbon (C) turnover in soils. The new model is evaluated by application to 15-30 years of water chemistry data at three coniferous-forested sites in the Czech Republic where deposition of sulphur (S) and N have decreased by >80% and 40%, respectively. Sulphate concentrations in waters have declined commensurately with S deposition, but nitrate concentrations have shown much larger decreases relative to N deposition. This behaviour is inconsistent with most conceptual models of N saturation, and with earlier versions of MAGIC which assume N retention to be a first-order function of N deposition and/or controlled by the soil C/N ratio. In comparison with earlier versions, the new formulation more correctly simulates observed short-term changes in nitrate leaching, as well as long-term retention of N in soils. The model suggests that, despite recent deposition reductions and recovery, progressive N saturation will lead to increased future nitrate leaching, ecosystem eutrophication and re-acidification.
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- F Oulehle
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Deiniol Road, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK.
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Curtis CJ, Evans CD, Goodale CL, Heaton TH. What Have Stable Isotope Studies Revealed About the Nature and Mechanisms of N Saturation and Nitrate Leaching from Semi-Natural Catchments? Ecosystems 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9461-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Moldan F, Wright RF. Nitrogen leaching and acidification during 19 years of NH₄NO₃ additions to a coniferous-forested catchment at Gårdsjön, Sweden (NITREX). ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2011; 159:431-40. [PMID: 21074916 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2010] [Revised: 09/23/2010] [Accepted: 10/15/2010] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The role of nitrogen (N) in acidification of soil and water has become relatively more important as the deposition of sulphur has decreased. Starting in 1991, we have conducted a whole-catchment experiment with N addition at Gårdsjön, Sweden, to investigate the risk of N saturation. We have added 41 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1) as NH(4)NO(3) to the ambient 9 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1) in fortnightly doses by means of sprinkling system. The fraction of input N lost to runoff has increased from 0% to 10%. Increased concentrations of NO(3) in runoff partially offset the decreasing concentrations of SO(4) and slowed ecosystem recovery from acid deposition. From 1990-2002, about 5% of the total N input went to runoff, 44% to biomass, and the remaining 51% to soil. The soil N pool increased by 5%. N deposition enhanced carbon (C) sequestration at a mean C/N ratio of 42-59 g g(-1).
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- Filip Moldan
- IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Box 5302, SE-40014 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Scanlon TM, Ingram SM, Riscassi AL. Terrestrial and in-stream influences on the spatial variability of nitrate in a forested headwater catchment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jg001091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Todd M. Scanlon
- Department of Environmental Sciences; University of Virginia; Charlottesville Virginia USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences; University of Virginia; Charlottesville Virginia USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences; University of Virginia; Charlottesville Virginia USA
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Kagalou I, Papastergiadou E, Leonardos I. Long term changes in the eutrophication process in a shallow Mediterranean lake ecosystem of W. Greece: response after the reduction of external load. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2008; 87:497-506. [PMID: 17383796 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.01.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2005] [Revised: 12/11/2006] [Accepted: 01/26/2007] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Lake Pamvotis is a shallow Mediterranean lake located in Western Greece near the city of Ioannina. The lake has been recognized as an internationally important conservation site under European Community legislation due to its rich biodiversity. However, during the last three decades the trophic status of the lake has changed as a result of anthropogenic activity (among others irrigation and domestic sewage discharge), resulting in serious problems. Here we present data about the long-term development in eutrophication of Lake Pamvotis. Water samples were collected and analyzed (water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, chlorophyll-a) during three monitoring periods: 1985-1989, 1998-1999, 2004-2005. The high nutrient concentrations in the lake water during the three monitoring periods, as well as its eutrophic to hypertrophic status reflect the degree of impact anthropogenic activity has had on the lake. Commencement of a restoration plan in 1995-1996, involving sewage diversion, led to a reduction in external nutrient load and consequently to lower in-lake nutrients and Chlorophyll-a concentrations. Orthophosphate concentration decreased by about 87%, nitrates fell below 1.20mg/l, whilst the total reduction of inorganic N compounds showed a weaker downward trend, fluctuating between 0.39 and 1.24mg N/l with an average value of 0.76mg N/l. However, after a short-term recovery the eutrophic status of the lake remains eight years later (2004-2005), suggesting the importance of the internal loading process and the absence of the top-down effect of fish. This study provides evidence for the need of greater restoration efforts utilized in Mediterranean shallow lakes.
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- I Kagalou
- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Biological Applications and Technology, University of Ioannina, GR 45110, Greece.
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Acidification and the structure of crustacean zooplankton in mountain lakes: The Tatra Mountains (Slovakia, Poland). Biologia (Bratisl) 2006. [DOI: 10.2478/s11756-006-0125-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Evidence that Soil Carbon Pool Determines Susceptibility of Semi-Natural Ecosystems to Elevated Nitrogen Leaching. Ecosystems 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-006-0051-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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