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Reese A, Clark CM, Phelan J, Buckley J, Cajka J, Sabo RD, Van Houtven G. Geographic variation in projected US forest aboveground carbon responses to climate change and atmospheric deposition. Environ Res Lett 2024; 19:1-12. [PMID: 38752201 PMCID: PMC11091792 DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad2739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Forest composition and ecosystem services are sensitive to anthropogenic pressures like climate change and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S). Here we extend recent forest projections for the current cohort of trees in the contiguous US, characterizing potential changes in aboveground tree carbon at the county level in response to varying mean annual temperature, precipitation, and N and S deposition. We found that relative to a scenario with N and S deposition reduction and no climate change, greater climate change led generally to decreasing aboveground carbon (mean -7.5% under RCP4.5, -16% under RCP8.5). Keeping climate constant, reduced N deposition tended to lessen aboveground carbon (mean -7%), whereas reduced S deposition tended to increase aboveground carbon (+3%) by 2100. Through mid-century (2050), deposition was more important for predicting carbon responses except under the extreme climate scenarios (RCP8.5); but, by 2100, climate drivers generally outweighed deposition. While more than 70% of counties showed reductions in aboveground carbon relative to the reference scenario, these were not evenly distributed across the US. Counties in the Northwest and Northern Great Plains, and the northern parts of New England and the Midwest, primarily showed positive responses, while counties in the Southeast showed negative responses. Counties with greater initial biomass showed less negative responses to climate change while those which exhibited the greatest change in composition (>15%) had a 95% chance of losing carbon relative to a no-climate change scenario. This analysis highlights that declines in forest growth and survival due to increases in mean temperature and reductions in atmospheric N deposition are likely to outweigh positive impacts of reduced S deposition and potential increases in precipitation. These effects vary at the regional and county level, however, so forest managers must consider local rather than national dynamics to maximize forest carbon sinks in the future.
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- Aspen Reese
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow, at the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America
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- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America
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- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America
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- US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Missimer TM, MacDonald JH, Tsegaye S, Thomas S, Teaf CM, Covert D, Kassis ZR. Natural Background and the Anthropogenic Enrichment of Mercury in the Southern Florida Environment: A Review with a Discussion on Public Health. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2024; 21:118. [PMID: 38276812 PMCID: PMC10815244 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph21010118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Revised: 01/09/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that is easily released into the atmosphere as a gas or a particulate. Since Hg has serious health impacts based on human exposure, it is a major concern where it accumulates. Southern Florida is a region of high Hg deposition in the United States. It has entered the southern Florida environment for over 56 MY. For the past 3000 to 8000 years, Hg has accumulated in the Everglades peatlands, where approximately 42.3 metric tons of Hg was deposited. The pre-industrial source of mercury that was deposited into the Everglades was from the atmosphere, consisting of combined Saharan dust and marine evasion. Drainage and the development of the Everglades for agriculture, and other mixed land uses have caused a 65.7% reduction in the quantity of peat, therefore releasing approximately 28 metric tons of Hg into the southern Florida environment over a period of approximately 133 years. Both natural and man-made fires have facilitated the Hg release. The current range in mercury release into the southern Florida environment lies between 994.9 and 1249 kg/yr. The largest source of Hg currently entering the Florida environment is from combined atmospheric sources, including Saharan dust, aerosols, sea spray, and ocean flux/evasion at 257.1-514.2 kg/yr. The remobilization of Hg from the Everglades peatlands and fires is approximately 215 kg/yr. Other large contributors include waste to energy incinerators (204.1 kg/yr), medical waste and crematory incinerators (159.7+ kg/yr), and cement plant stack discharge (150.6 kg/yr). Minor emissions include fuel emissions from motorized vehicles, gas emissions from landfills, asphalt plants, and possible others. No data are available on controlled fires in the Everglades in sugar farming, which is lumped with the overall peatland loss of Hg to the environment. Hg has impacted wildlife in southern Florida with recorded excess concentrations in fish, birds, and apex predators. This bioaccumulation of Hg in animals led to the adoption of regulations (total maximum loads) to reduce the impacts on wildlife and warnings were given to consumers to avoid the consumption of fish that are considered to be contaminated. The deposition of atmospheric Hg in southern Florida has not been studied sufficiently to ascertain where it has had the greatest impacts. Hg has been found to accumulate on willow tree leaves in a natural environment in one recent study. No significant studies of the potential impacts on human health have been conducted in southern Florida, which should be started based on the high rates of Hg fallout in rainfall and known recycling for organic sediments containing high concentrations of Hg.
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- Thomas M. Missimer
- U. A. Whitaker College of Engineering, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565, USA;
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- Environmental Geology Program & Honors College, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565, USA;
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- Department of Bioengineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565, USA;
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Studies, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565, USA;
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- Institute for Science & Public Affairs, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA;
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- Hazardous Substance & Waste Management Research, 2976 Wellington Circle West, Tallahassee, FL 32309, USA;
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- U. A. Whitaker College of Engineering, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565, USA;
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Deng O, Huang S, Wang C, Wei Y, Xia Y, Liu Z, Zhang X, Xiao W, He T, Wu X, Pradhan M, Gu B. Atmospheric Nitrogen Pollution Control Benefits the Coastal Environment. Environ Sci Technol 2024; 58:449-458. [PMID: 38130002 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c07546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Nitrogen is an essential nutrient and a major limiting element for the ocean ecosystem. Since the preindustrial era, substantial amounts of nitrogen from terrestrial sources have entered the ocean via rivers, groundwater, and atmospheric deposition. China serves as a key hub in the global nitrogen cycle, but the pathways, sources, and potential mitigation strategies for land-ocean nitrogen transport are unclear. By combining the CHANS, WRF-Chem, and WNF models, we estimated that 8 million tonnes (Tg) of nitrogen was transferred into the ocean in 2017 in China, with atmospheric deposition contributing 1/3. About half variation of the offshore chlorophyll concentration was explained by atmospheric deposition. The Bohai Sea was the hot spot of nitrogen input, estimated at 214 kg N ha-1, while other areas were around 25-51 kg N ha-1. The largest contributors are agricultural systems (4 Tg, 55%), followed by domestic sewage (2 Tg, 21%). Abatement measures could reduce nitrogen export to the ocean by 43%, and mitigating ammonia and nitrogen oxide emissions accounts for 33% of this reduction, highlighting the importance of addressing air pollution in resolving ocean pollution. The cost-benefit analysis suggests the priority of nitrogen reduction in cropland and transport systems for the ocean environment.
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- Ouping Deng
- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Changshu National Agr-Ecosystem Observation and Research Station, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), Bangkok 10200, Thailand
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Policy Simulation Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Environment Remediation and Ecological Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Chen XZ, Hogan JA, Wang CP, Wang PL, Lin TC. Responses of a common tropical epiphyte, Asplenium nidus, to changes in water and nutrient availability. AoB Plants 2023; 15:plad076. [PMID: 38046406 PMCID: PMC10689150 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plad076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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Epiphytes are highly dependent on atmospheric inputs of water and nutrients. Reductions in water availability associated with warming and climate change and continual atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition can affect plant growth but few studies have evaluated the effects of changes in both water and nutrient availabilities on epiphytes. We experimentally tested whether epiphyte growth is more water- or nutrient-limited, if nutrient limitation was stronger for nitrogen or phosphorus, and whether nutrient limitation interacts with water availability. We applied watering (high and low) and nutrient addition (control, +N, +P, +N+P) treatments to greenhouse-grown Asplenium nidus, a common epiphytic fern found in many tropical and subtropical wet forests. We measured leaf area production and leaf elemental concentrations to assess how A. nidus growth and physiology respond to changes in water and nutrient availabilities. We found that leaf growth of A. nidus was more affected by water availability than nutrient addition and the effect of adding nutrients was not fully realized under low-water availability. Among the different nutrient treatments, +N+P had the greatest effects on A. nidus growth and physiology in both watering treatments. Watering treatment changed leaf elemental concentrations but not their ratios (i.e. C:N and N:P). Nutrient addition altered C:N and N:P ratios and increased the concentration of the added elements in leaves, with more pronounced increases in the high-watering treatment. We conclude that the growth of A. nidus is more water- than nutrient-limited. When nutrient limitation occurs (i.e. under high-water availability), nutrient co-limitation is stronger than limitation by N or P alone. This result taken together with studies of other epiphytes suggests greater water than nutrient limitation is likely widespread among epiphytic plants. The limited effects of nutrient addition in the low-water treatment suggest that the effect of atmospheric N deposition on epiphyte growth will be limited when water availability is low.
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- Xiao-Zhen Chen
- Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11677, Taiwan
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Silviculture Division, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei 10066, Taiwan
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11677, Taiwan
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Clark CM, Phelan J, Ash J, Buckley J, Cajka J, Horn K, Thomas RQ, Sabo RD. Future climate change effects on US forest composition may offset benefits of reduced atmospheric deposition of N and S. Glob Chang Biol 2023; 29:4793-4810. [PMID: 37417247 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023]
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Climate change and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) are important drivers of forest demography. Here we apply previously derived growth and survival responses for 94 tree species, representing >90% of the contiguous US forest basal area, to project how changes in mean annual temperature, precipitation, and N and S deposition from 20 different future scenarios may affect forest composition to 2100. We find that under the low climate change scenario (RCP 4.5), reductions in aboveground tree biomass from higher temperatures are roughly offset by increases in aboveground tree biomass from reductions in N and S deposition. However, under the higher climate change scenario (RCP 8.5) the decreases from climate change overwhelm increases from reductions in N and S deposition. These broad trends underlie wide variation among species. We found averaged across temperature scenarios the relative abundance of 60 species were projected to decrease more than 5% and 20 species were projected to increase more than 5%; and reductions of N and S deposition led to a decrease for 13 species and an increase for 40 species. This suggests large shifts in the composition of US forests in the future. Negative climate effects were mostly from elevated temperature and were not offset by scenarios with wetter conditions. We found that by 2100 an estimated 1 billion trees under the RCP 4.5 scenario and 20 billion trees under the RCP 8.5 scenario may be pushed outside the temperature record upon which these relationships were derived. These results may not fully capture future changes in forest composition as several other factors were not included. Overall efforts to reduce atmospheric deposition of N and S will likely be insufficient to overcome climate change impacts on forest demography across much of the United States unless we adhere to the low climate change scenario.
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- Christopher M Clark
- Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
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- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- US Department of Agriculture, US Forest Service, Ashville, North Carolina, USA
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- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Polytechnical University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Polytechnical University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
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Liu YR, Guo L, Yang Z, Xu Z, Zhao J, Wen SH, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Chen L. Multidimensional Drivers of Mercury Distribution in Global Surface Soils: Insights from a Global Standardized Field Survey. Environ Sci Technol 2023; 57:12442-12452. [PMID: 37506289 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c04313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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Soil stores a large amount of mercury (Hg) that has adverse effects on human health and ecosystem safety. Significant uncertainties still exist in revealing environmental drivers of soil Hg accumulation and predicting global Hg distribution owing to the lack of field data from global standardized analyses. Here, we conducted a global standardized field survey and explored a holistic understanding of the multidimensional environmental drivers of Hg accumulation in global surface soils. Hg content in surface soils from our survey ranges from 3.8 to 618.2 μg kg-1 with an average of 74.0 μg kg-1 across the globe. Atmospheric Hg deposition, particularly vegetation-induced elemental Hg0 deposition, is the major source of surface soil Hg. Soil organic carbon serves as the major substrate for sequestering Hg in surface soils and is significantly influenced by agricultural management, litterfall, and elevation. For human activities, changing land-use could be a more important contributor than direct anthropogenic emissions. Our prediction of a new global Hg distribution highlights the hot spots (high Hg content) in East Asia, the Northern Hemispheric temperate/boreal regions, and tropical areas, while the cold spots (low Hg content) are in arid regions. The holistic understanding of multidimensional environmental drivers helps to predict the Hg distribution in global surface soils under a changing global environment.
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- Yu-Rong Liu
- College of Resources and Environment and State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Health and Green Remediation, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Resources and Environment and State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Health and Green Remediation, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Resources and Environment and State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Health and Green Remediation, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistemico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Sevilla 41012, Spain
- Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla 41013, Spain
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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Mi L, Xie Z, Xu W, Waniek JJ, Pohlmann T, Mi W. Air-Sea Exchange and Atmospheric Deposition of Phthalate Esters in the South China Sea. Environ Sci Technol 2023; 57:11195-11205. [PMID: 37459505 PMCID: PMC10399291 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c09426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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Phthalate esters (PAEs) have been investigated in paired air and seawater samples collected onboard the research vessel SONNE in the South China Sea in the summer of 2019. The concentrations of ∑7PAEs ranged from 2.84 to 24.3 ng/m3 with a mean of 9.67 ± 5.86 ng/m3 in air and from 0.96 to 8.35 ng/L with a mean of 3.05 ng/L in seawater. Net air-to-seawater deposition dominated air-sea exchange fluxes of DiBP, DnBP, DMP, and DEP, while strong water-to-air volatilization was estimated for bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP). The estimated net atmospheric depositions were 3740 t/y for the sum of DMP, DEP, DiBP, and DnBP, but DEHP volatilized from seawater to air with an average of 900 t/y. The seasonally changing monsoon circulation, currents, and cyclones occurring in the Pacific can significantly influence the concentration of PAEs, and alter the direction and magnitude of air-sea exchange and particle deposition fluxes. Consequently, the dynamic air-sea exchange process may drive the transport of PAEs from marginal seas and estuaries toward remote marine environments, which can play an important role in the environmental transport and cycling of PAEs in the global ocean.
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- Lijie Mi
- Institute of Coastal Environmental Chemistry, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht 21502, Germany
- Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany
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- Institute of Coastal Environmental Chemistry, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht 21502, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Department of Marine Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock 18119, Germany
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- Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany
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- MINJIE Institute of Environmental Science and Health Research, Geesthacht 21502, Germany
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Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for phytoplankton growth, and its availability limits primary production in half of the global ocean. Traditionally, atmospheric input of natural mineral dust has been considered as a main source of Fe in the surface ocean. However, here we show that about 45% of the water-soluble Fe in aerosols collected over the East Sea (Japan Sea) is anthropogenic, which originates mainly from heavy fuel oil combustion, based on the analyses of various chemical tracers (Al, K, V, Ni, Pb, and 210Pb). It is striking that a tiny quantity of oil, less than 1% of the aerosols in mass, can constitute the majority of water-soluble Fe in aerosols due to its high Fe solubility. Furthermore, we show that a quarter of dissolved Fe in the East Sea is anthropogenic using a 210Pb-based scavenging model. Since this sea is almost fully enclosed (200-3000 m) and located at the forefront of the Asian human footprint, our results provide an insight that the marine Fe cycle may be already perturbed by human activities.
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- Hojong Seo
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea
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Chen M, Wang LL, Cao L, Li MY, Shen ZM. [Pollution Assessment and Source Analysis of Heavy Metals in Atmospheric Deposition in a Lead-zinc Smelting City Based on PMF Model]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2023; 44:3450-3462. [PMID: 37309962 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202208046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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To explore the pollution characteristics and sources of heavy metals in atmospheric deposition in a typical lead-zinc smelting city, 511 effective atmospheric deposition samples from 22 points in different functional areas of a city in Henan Province were collected monthly during 2021. The concentrations and spatial-temporal distribution of heavy metals were analyzed. The geo-accumulation index method and health risk assessment model were utilized to evaluate the heavy metal pollution degree. The sources of heavy metals were quantitatively analyzed using a positive matrix factorization (PMF) model. The results showed that the average concentrations of ω(Pb), ω(Cd), ω(As), ω(Cr), ω(Cu), ω(Mn), ω(Ni), and ω(Zn) in atmospheric deposition samples were 3185.77, 78.18, 273.67, 149.50, 453.60, 810.37, 54.38, and 2397.38 mg·kg-1, respectively, which were all higher than the soil background values of Henan Province. All heavy metals except Mn had significant seasonal variation characteristics. The concentrations of Pb, Cd, As, and Cu in the industrial area with lead-zinc smelting were significantly higher than those in other functional areas, and the concentration of Zn was the highest in the residential mixed area. The results of the geo-accumulation index showed that the pollution of Cd and Pb were the most serious, followed by that of Zn, Cu, and As, which belonged to the serious-extreme pollution category. The main exposure route of non-carcinogenic risk was hand-mouth intake. Pb and As posed the greatest non-carcinogenic risk to children in all functional areas. The carcinogenic risks of Cr, As, Cd, and Ni through the respiratory system to humans were all below the threshold values. The analysis of the PMF model showed that the main sources of heavy metals in atmospheric deposition were industrial pollution sources (39.7%), transportation sources (28.9%), secondary dust sources (14.4%), incineration and coal combustion sources (9.3%), and natural sources (7.8%).
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- Ming Chen
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430000, China
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- Environmental Protection Agency of Jiyuan Production City Integration Demonstration Area, Jiyuan 459000, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Yang H, Macario-González L, Cohuo S, Whitmore TJ, Salgado J, Peréz L, Schwalb A, Rose NL, Holmes J, Riedinger-Whitmore MA, Hoelzmann P, O’Dea A. Mercury Pollution History in Tropical and Subtropical American Lakes: Multiple Impacts and the Possible Relationship with Climate Change. Environ Sci Technol 2023; 57:3680-3690. [PMID: 36802450 PMCID: PMC9996825 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c09870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Sediment cores obtained from 11 tropical and subtropical American lakes revealed that local human activities significantly increased mercury (Hg) inputs and pollution levels. Remote lakes also have been contaminated by anthropogenic Hg through atmospheric depositions. Long-term sediment-core profiles revealed an approximately 3-fold increase in Hg fluxes to sediments from c. 1850 to 2000. Generalized additive models indicate that c. 3-fold increases in Hg fluxes also occurred since 2000 in the remote sites, while Hg emissions from anthropogenic sources have remained relatively stable. The tropical and subtropical Americas are vulnerable to extreme weather events. Air temperatures in this region have shown a marked increase since the 1990s, and extreme weather events arising from climate change have increased. When comparing Hg fluxes to recent (1950-2016) climatic changes, results show marked increases in Hg fluxes to sediments during dry periods. The Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) time series indicate a tendency toward more extreme drier conditions across the study region since the mid-1990s, suggesting that instabilities in catchment surfaces caused by climate change are responsible for the elevated Hg flux rates. Drier conditions since c. 2000 appear to be promoting Hg fluxes from catchments to lakes, a process that will likely be exacerbated under future climate-change scenarios.
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- Handong Yang
- Environmental
Change Research Centre, University College
London, Gower Street, London WC1E
6BT, U.K.
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- Institut
für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19c, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
- Tecnológico
Nacional de México−I. T. de la Zona Maya, Carretera Chetumal-Escárcega
Km 21.5, Ejido Juan Sarabia, 77965 Juan Sarabia, Quintana
Roo, Mexico
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- Institut
für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19c, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
- Tecnológico
Nacional de México−I. T. Chetumal, Av. Insurgentes 330, Chetumal 77013, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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- University
of South Florida, 140 7th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, United States
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- Environmental
Change Research Centre, University College
London, Gower Street, London WC1E
6BT, U.K.
- Programa
de Ingeniería Civil, Grupo de Infraestructura y Desarrollo
Sostenible, Universidad Católica
de Colombia, Bogotá 111311, Colombia
- School
of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K.
- Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute, P.O. Box 0843-03092, Balboa 0843-03092, Panama
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- Institut
für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19c, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institut
für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19c, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Environmental
Change Research Centre, University College
London, Gower Street, London WC1E
6BT, U.K.
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- Environmental
Change Research Centre, University College
London, Gower Street, London WC1E
6BT, U.K.
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- Institut
für Geographische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteser Strasse 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany
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- Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute, P.O. Box 0843-03092, Balboa 0843-03092, Panama
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Goll DS, Bauters M, Zhang H, Ciais P, Balkanski Y, Wang R, Verbeeck H. Atmospheric phosphorus deposition amplifies carbon sinks in simulations of a tropical forest in Central Africa. New Phytol 2023; 237:2054-2068. [PMID: 36226674 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Spatial redistribution of nutrients by atmospheric transport and deposition could theoretically act as a continental-scale mechanism which counteracts declines in soil fertility caused by nutrient lock-up in accumulating biomass in tropical forests in Central Africa. However, to what extent it affects carbon sinks in forests remains elusive. Here we use a terrestrial biosphere model to quantify the impact of changes in atmospheric nitrogen and phosphorus deposition on plant nutrition and biomass carbon sink at a typical lowland forest site in Central Africa. We find that the increase in nutrient deposition since the 1980s could have contributed to the carbon sink over the past four decades up to an extent which is similar to that from the combined effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate change. Furthermore, we find that the modelled carbon sink responds to changes in phosphorus deposition, but less so to nitrogen deposition. The pronounced response of ecosystem productivity to changes in nutrient deposition illustrates a potential mechanism that could control carbon sinks in Central Africa. Monitoring the quantity and quality of nutrient deposition is needed in this region, given the changes in nutrient deposition due to human land use.
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- Daniel S Goll
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, CNRS, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France
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- Isotope Bioscience Laboratory-ISOFYS, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium
- Department of Environment, Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology - CAVElab, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium
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- Department Geoscience, Environment & Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, 1050, Belgium
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, CNRS, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, CNRS, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China
- Integrated Research on Disaster Risk International Center of Excellence on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China
- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China
- Center for Urban Eco-Planning & Design, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China
- Big Data Institute for Carbon Emission and Environmental Pollution, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China
- Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- Department of Environment, Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology - CAVElab, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium
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Brugnone F, D’Alessandro W, Parello F, Liotta M, Bellomo S, Prano V, Li Vigni L, Sprovieri M, Calabrese S. Atmospheric Deposition around the Industrial Areas of Milazzo and Priolo Gargallo (Sicily-Italy)-Part A: Major Ions. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023; 20:3898. [PMID: 36900908 PMCID: PMC10002272 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20053898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2023] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The chemical composition of rainwater was studied in two highly-industrialised areas in Sicily (southern Italy), between June 2018 and July 2019. The study areas were characterised by large oil refining plants and other industrial hubs whose processes contribute to the release of large amounts of gaseous species that can affect the chemical composition of atmospheric deposition As in most of the Mediterranean area, rainwater acidity (ranging in the study area between 3.9 and 8.3) was buffered by the dissolution of abundant geogenic carbonate aerosol. In particular, calcium and magnesium cations showed the highest pH-neutralizing factor, with ~92% of the acidity brought by SO42- and NO3- neutralized by alkaline dust. The lowest pH values were observed in samples collected after abundant rain periods, characterised by a less significant dry deposition of alkaline materials. Electrical Conductivity (ranging between 7 µS cm-1 and 396 µS cm-1) was inversely correlated with the amount of rainfall measured in the two areas. Concentrations of major ionic species followed the sequence Cl- > Na+ > SO42- ≃ HCO3- > ≃ Ca2+ > NO3- > Mg2+ > K+ > F-. High loads of Na+ and Cl- (with a calculated R2 = 0.99) reflected proximity to the sea. Calcium, potassium, and non-sea-salt magnesium had a prevalent crustal origin. Non-sea salt sulphate, nitrate, and fluoride can be attributed mainly to anthropogenic sources. Mt. Etna, during eruptive periods, may be also considered, on a regional scale, a significant source for fluoride, non-sea salt sulphate, and even chloride.
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- Filippo Brugnone
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi, 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Section of Palermo Via Ugo la Malfa, 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi, 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Section of Palermo Via Ugo la Malfa, 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Section of Palermo Via Ugo la Malfa, 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Section of Palermo Via Ugo la Malfa, 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi, 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto per lo Studio degli Impatti Antropici e Sostenibilità in Ambiente Marino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IAS—CNR), Capo Granitola, Via del Mare, 3, Torretta Granitola, Fraz, 91021 Campobello di Mazara, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi, 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Section of Palermo Via Ugo la Malfa, 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy
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Jafarova M, Contardo T, Aherne J, Loppi S. Lichen Biomonitoring of Airborne Microplastics in Milan (N Italy). Biology (Basel) 2022; 11. [PMID: 36552324 DOI: 10.3390/biology11121815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2022] [Revised: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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This study investigated the deposition of airborne microplastics (MPs) in the urban area of Milan across 12 sites and at a background control site (northern Italy) using 3-month transplants of the fruticose lichen species Evernia prunastri (exposed in triplicate). The primary objective was to evaluate the use of lichen transplants for the assessment of MP deposition; as such, the study sites spanned a gradient in vehicular traffic and population density across four concentric land-use zones (i.e., urban parks, centre, semi-periphery, and periphery). A total of 149 MP particles were detected in the exposed lichen samples; 94.6% were classified as fibres and 5.4% as fragments. The control site and urban parks experienced a similar number of MPs per gram of dry lichen (20-26 MP/g), while a higher number of MPs were detected in central and peripheral areas (44-56 MP/g), with a clear increasing gradient from the city centre towards the periphery. We estimated the MP deposition in Milan to be in the range of 43-119 MPs m2/d, indicating that people living in Milan are exposed to airborne MPs, with potential health effects. This study suggests that lichens are suitable biomonitors of airborne MPs under a relatively short exposure of three months in urban environments.
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Riedo J, Herzog C, Banerjee S, Fenner K, Walder F, van der Heijden MG, Bucheli TD. Concerted Evaluation of Pesticides in Soils of Extensive Grassland Sites and Organic and Conventional Vegetable Fields Facilitates the Identification of Major Input Processes. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:13686-13695. [PMID: 36099238 PMCID: PMC9535809 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c02413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Revised: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The intensive use of pesticides and their subsequent distribution to the environment and non-target organisms is of increasing concern. So far, little is known about the occurrence of pesticides in soils of untreated areas─such as ecological refuges─as well as the processes contributing to this unwanted pesticide contamination. In this study, we analyzed the presence and abundance of 46 different pesticides in soils from extensively managed grassland sites, as well as organically and conventionally managed vegetable fields (60 fields in total). Pesticides were found in all soils, including the extensive grassland sites, demonstrating a widespread background contamination of soils with pesticides. The results suggest that after conversion from conventional to organic farming, the organic fields reach pesticide levels as low as those of grassland sites not until 20 years later. Furthermore, the different pesticide composition patterns in grassland sites and organically managed fields facilitated differentiation between long-term persistence of residues and diffuse contamination processes, that is, short-scale redistribution (spray drift) and long-scale dispersion (atmospheric deposition), to offsite contamination.
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- Judith Riedo
- Department
of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
- Department
of Plant and Microbial Biology, University
of Zurich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department
of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
- Department
of Plant and Microbial Biology, University
of Zurich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department
of Microbiological Sciences, North Dakota
State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58108-6050, United States
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- Department
of Environmental Chemistry, Eawag, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department
of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department
of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
- Department
of Plant and Microbial Biology, University
of Zurich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department
of Methods Development and Analytics, Agroscope, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
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Chen Y, Wang Q, Zhu J, Xi Y, Zhang Q, Dai G, He N, Yu G. Atmospheric Wet Iron, Molybdenum, and Vanadium Deposition in Chinese Terrestrial Ecosystems. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:12898-12905. [PMID: 36026692 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c03213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Iron (Fe), molybdenum (Mo), and vanadium (V) are the main components of the three known biological nitrogenases, which constrain nitrogen fixation and affect ecosystem productivity. Atmospheric deposition is an important pathway of these trace metals into ecosystems. Here, we explored the deposition flux, spatiotemporal pattern, and influencing factors of atmospheric wet Fe, Mo, and V deposition based on China Wet Deposition Observation Network (ChinaWD) data from 2016 to 2020. Our results showed that atmospheric wet Fe, Mo, and V deposition was 7.77 ± 7.24, 0.16 ± 0.11, and 0.13 ± 0.12 mg m-2 a-1 in Chinese terrestrial ecosystems, respectively, and revealed obvious spatial patterns but no significant annual trends. Wet Fe deposition was significantly correlated with the soil Fe content. Mo and V deposition was more affected by anthropogenic activities than Fe deposition. Wet Mo deposition was significantly affected by Mo ore reserves and waste incineration. V deposition was significantly correlated with domestic biomass burning. This study quantified wet Fe, Mo, and V deposition in China for the first time, and the implications of atmospheric trace metal deposition on biological nitrogen fixation were discussed.
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- Yanran Chen
- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Research Station of Changbai Mountain Forest Ecosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Antu 133613, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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Chen QY, Gao YB, Ni RX, Pan YC, Yan YG, Yang J, Liu XY, Gu XH. [Temporal and Spatial Variation Characteristics of Heavy Metal in Atmospheric Deposition in China from 2000 to 2018]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2022; 43:4413-4424. [PMID: 36096582 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202201135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Owing to the significant impact of heavy metals in atmospheric deposition on soil, clear knowledge on the present situation and temporal and spatial variation in fluxes of heavy metals in atmospheric deposition all around China is urgently needed. In this study, we collected 99 published papers on deposition fluxes of heavy metals from 2001 to 2021 based on the CNKI and Web of Science database and extracted 718 to 1672 monitoring points from these papers. The Meta-analysis method was used to calculate the weighted average of deposition fluxes of heavy metals, and the spatial-temporal characteristics in different periods from 2000 to 2018 were studied by subgroup analysis, which compared the differences between different types of areas, such as agricultural and rural areas and urban and industrial areas. The results showed that the annual fluxes of heavy metals in atmospheric deposition[mg·(m2·a)-1] in China were as follows:Zn (96.75)>Pb (23.37)>Cu (12.77)>Cr (11.04)>Ni (6.61)>As (2.97)>Cd (0.48)>Hg (0.05). Overall, the estimated value of deposition fluxes in China from 2000 to 2018 was higher than that of rural areas in England from 1995 to 1998. The deposition fluxes in industrial areas and urban areas were much higher than those in the agricultural and rural areas, especially the industrial areas where the heavy metal pollution was more serious. The deposition fluxes of As and Cd in the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan area were relatively high, whereas the atmospheric deposition of heavy metals in Northeast China, the Pearl River Delta, and North China Plain was more serious than that in the other areas. In the past 20 years, the annual deposition fluxes of Cd fluctuated around the overall average, without an obviously declining trend, whereas the deposition fluxes of Cd in the urban, agricultural, and rural areas showed a trend of growth. These results suggested that precise and risk control measures of atmospheric emissions should be established based on the characteristics of regional industrial structure, which should cover all levels, all types, and all regions. In addition, more restrictive measures should be taken to solve the current problem caused by the higher deposition flux of Cd in atmospheric deposition.
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- Qi-Yong Chen
- Research Center of Information Technology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
- College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
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- Research Center of Information Technology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
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- Rural Energy and Environment Agency, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing 100125, China
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- Research Center of Information Technology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
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- College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
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- Research Center of Information Technology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
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- Technical Centre for Soil, Agriculture and Rural Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing 100012, China
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- Research Center of Information Technology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
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Liu H, Zhou J, Li M, Xia R, Wang X, Zhou J. Dynamic Behaviors of Newly Deposited Atmospheric Heavy Metals in the Soil-Pak Choi System. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:12734-12744. [PMID: 35977088 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c04062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Dynamic behaviors of the newly deposited atmospheric heavy metals in the soil-pak choi (Brassica chinensis L.) system are investigated by a fully factorial atmospheric exposure experiment using soils exposed to 0.5-year and 1.5-year atmospheric depositions. The results showed approximately 17-87%, 19-64%, and 43-84% of the Cu, Cd, and Pb in pak choi edible parts were contributed from the new depositions, respectively. For the newly deposited metals, foliar uptake was the key pathway of shoot bioaccumulation rather than from root uptake of the deposited metals in soils, resulting in no significant soil contribution differences between pak chois growing in 0.5-year and 1.5-year exposed soils. Indeed, highly bioavailable metals in atmospheric deposition significantly increased the soil plant-bioavailable Cu, Cd, and Pb fractions; however, soil aging resulted in similar percentages of the plant-bioavailable fractions in 0.5-year and 1.5-year exposed soils, which indicated the bioavailability of metals deposited into soils rapidly decreased with aging. The soil aging process of the deposited metals was well fitted with the first-order exponential decay model, and soil organic matter and clay were the major driving factors. Our findings highlight high plant bioaccumulation rates and the rapid soil aging process of newly deposited metals during the plant growth period.
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- Hailong Liu
- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, P.R. China
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225000, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, P.R. China
- Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, United States
- National Engineering and Technology Research Center for Red Soil Improvement, Red Soil Ecological Experiment Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yingtan 335211, P.R. China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225000, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, P.R. China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225000, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, P.R. China
- National Engineering and Technology Research Center for Red Soil Improvement, Red Soil Ecological Experiment Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yingtan 335211, P.R. China
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Cahill TM. Increases in Trifluoroacetate Concentrations in Surface Waters over Two Decades. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:9428-9434. [PMID: 35736541 PMCID: PMC9261931 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c01826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Revised: 05/18/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Trifluoroacetate (TFA) is a persistent perfluorinated alkanoic acid anion that has many anthropogenic sources, with fluorocarbon refrigerants being a major one. After an initial burst of research in the late 1990s and early 2000s, research on this ubiquitous pollutant declined as atmospheric emissions of the precursor compounds grew rapidly. Thus, there is little contemporaneous information about the concentrations of TFA in the environment and how they have changed over time. This research determined the change in TFA concentrations in streams by resampling a transect that was originally sampled in 1998. The transect was designed to determine the regional distribution of TFA both upwind and downwind of major metropolitan areas in Northern California as well as a set of globally remote sites in Alaska. The results showed that TFA concentrations increased by an average of 6-fold over the intervening 23 years, which resulted in a median concentration of 180 ng/L (range 21.3-2790). The highest concentrations were found in streams immediately downwind of the San Francisco Bay Area, while substantially lower concentrations were found in the upwind, regionally remote, and globally remote sites. The C3 to C5 perfluorinated alkanoic acids were also investigated, but they were rarely detected with this methodology.
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Wang Q, Zhang C, Jin H, Chen Y, Yao X, Gao H. Effect of Anthropogenic Aerosol Addition on Phytoplankton Growth in Coastal Waters: Role of Enhanced Phosphorus Bioavailability. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:915255. [PMID: 35783404 PMCID: PMC9247544 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.915255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Atmospheric deposition can supply nutrients to induce varying responses of phytoplankton of different sizes in the upper ocean. Here, we collected surface and subsurface chlorophyll a maximum (SCM) seawaters from the Yellow Sea and East China Sea to conduct a series of onboard incubation experiments, aiming to explore the impact of anthropogenic aerosol (AR, sampled in Qingdao, a coastal city in Northern China) addition on phytoplankton growth using schemes with (unfiltered seawater, UFS) and without (filtered seawater, FS) microsized (20-200 μm) cells. We found that AR addition stimulated phytoplankton growth obviously, as indicated by chlorophyll a (Chl a) in surface incubations, and had stimulatory or no effects in SCM incubations, which was related to nutrient statuses in seawater. The high ratio of nitrogen (N) to phosphorus (P) in the AR treatments demonstrated that P became the primary limiting nutrient. The alkaline phosphatase activity (APA), which can reflect the rate at which dissolved organic P (DOP) is converted into dissolved inorganic P, was 1.3-75.5 times higher in the AR treatments than in the control, suggesting that AR addition increased P bioavailability in the incubated seawater. Dinoflagellates with the capacity to utilize DOP showed the dominant growth in the AR treatments, corresponding to the shift in phytoplankton size structure toward larger cells. Surprisingly, we found that nanosized (2-20 μm) and picosized (0.2-2 μm) Chl a concentrations in UFS were generally higher than those in FS. The APA in UFS was at least 1.6 times higher than in FS and was proportional to the contribution of microsized cells to the total Chl a, suggesting that microsized cells play an important role in the increase in APA, which contributes to the growth of nanosized and picosized phytoplankton. Current work provides new insight into the increase of P bioavailability induced by atmospheric deposition and resultant ecological effect in coastal waters.
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- Qin Wang
- Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, Ministry of Education of China, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, Ministry of Education of China, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, Ministry of Education of China, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, Ministry of Education of China, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, Ministry of Education of China, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Guo C, Zhou Y, Zhou H, Su C, Kong L. Aerosol Nutrients and Their Biological Influence on the Northwest Pacific Ocean (NWPO) and Its Marginal Seas. Biology (Basel) 2022; 11:842. [PMID: 35741363 DOI: 10.3390/biology11060842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Revised: 05/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Simple Summary With intensifying human activities in the past decades, East Asia has recorded increasingly severe air pollution and become the second largest aerosol source on earth. The large quantity of aerosol emissions is not only a major health threat to humans, but can also be transported for a long distance and deposited in downwind seas and oceans. The aerosol contains major ions, heavy metals, and organic matters that are important external nutrients in upper oceans and potentially influence marine microbes and biogeochemical cycles. Therefore, the role of atmospheric deposition to oceans has received growing attention in recent years. In this paper, the current state of knowledge on the atmospheric nutrients and the biological effect of East Asian aerosol deposition on the northwest Pacific Ocean are reviewed, which could help us better understand the comprehensive influence of East Asian aerosols on marine ecosystems, and give insights into future research directions, especially under the future scenarios of changing human activities and climate. Abstract Atmospheric deposition is recognized as a significant source of nutrients in the surface ocean. The East Asia region is among the largest sources of aerosol emissions in the world, due to its large industrial, agricultural, and energy production. Thus, East Asian aerosols contain a large proportion of anthropogenic particles that are characterized by small size, complex composition, and high nutrient dissolution, resulting in important influences on marine microbes and biogeochemical cycles in the downwind areas of the northwest Pacific Ocean (NWPO). By using remote sensing, modeling, and incubation experimental methods, enhanced primary production due to the East Asian aerosol input has been observed in the NWPO, with subsequent promotion and inhibition impacts on different phytoplankton taxa. Changes of bacterial activity and diversity also occur in response to aerosol input. The impact of East Asian aerosol loadings is closely related to the amount and composition of the aerosol deposition as well as the hydrological condition of the receiving seawater. Here, we review the current state of knowledge on the atmospheric nutrients and the effects of the East Asian aerosols on microbes in the NWPO region. Future research perspectives are also proposed.
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Sabo RD, Sullivan B, Wu C, Trentacoste E, Zhang Q, Shenk GW, Bhatt G, Linker LC. Major point and nonpoint sources of nutrient pollution to surface water have declined throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Environ Res Commun 2022; 4:1-11. [PMID: 37089436 PMCID: PMC10116850 DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ac5db6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Understanding drivers of water quality in local watersheds is the first step for implementing targeted restoration practices. Nutrient inventories can inform water quality management decisions by identifying shifts in nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) balances over space and time while also keeping track of the likely urban and agricultural point and nonpoint sources of pollution. The Chesapeake Bay Program's Chesapeake Assessment Scenario Tool (CAST) provides N and P balance data for counties throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and these data were leveraged to create a detailed nutrient inventory for all the counties in the watershed from 1985-2019. This study focuses on three primary watershed nutrient balance components-agricultural surplus, atmospheric deposition, and point source loads-which are thought to be the leading anthropogenic drivers of nutrient loading trends across the watershed. All inputs, outputs, and derived metrics (n=53) like agricultural surplus and nutrient use efficiency, were subjected to short- and long-term trend analyses to discern how sources of pollution to surface water have changed over time. Across the watershed from 1985-2019, downward trends in atmospheric deposition were ubiquitous. Though there are varying effects, long-term declines in agricultural surplus were observed, likely because nutrients are being managed more efficiently. Multiple counties' point source loads declined, primarily associated with upgrades at major cities that discharge treated wastewater directly to tidal waters. Despite all of these positive developments, recent increases in agricultural surpluses from 2009-2019 highlight that water quality gains may soon be reversed in many agricultural areas of the basin. Besides tracking progress and jurisdictional influence on pollution sources, the nutrient inventory can be used for retrospective water quality analysis to highlight drivers of past improvement/degradation of water quality trends and for decision makers to develop and track their near- and long-term watershed restoration strategies.
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- Robert D Sabo
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Chesapeake Research Consortium, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis, MD, United States of America
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- ERT, Inc., Laurel, MD, United States of America
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Immediate Office of the Assistant Administrator, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis, MD, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis, MD, United States of America
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- Pennsylvania State University, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis, MD, United States of America
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Immediate Office of the Assistant Administrator, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Fu JS, Carmichael GR, Dentener F, Aas W, Andersson C, Barrie LA, Cole A, Galy-Lacaux C, Geddes J, Itahashi S, Kanakidou M, Labrador L, Paulot F, Schwede D, Tan J, Vet R. Improving Estimates of Sulfur, Nitrogen, and Ozone Total Deposition through Multi-Model and Measurement-Model Fusion Approaches. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:2134-2142. [PMID: 35081307 PMCID: PMC8962501 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c05929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Earth system and environmental impact studies need high quality and up-to-date estimates of atmospheric deposition. This study demonstrates the methodological benefits of multimodel ensemble and measurement-model fusion mapping approaches for atmospheric deposition focusing on 2010, a year for which several studies were conducted. Global model-only deposition assessment can be further improved by integrating new model-measurement techniques, including expanded capabilities of satellite observations of atmospheric composition. We identify research and implementation priorities for timely estimates of deposition globally as implemented by the World Meteorological Organization.
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- Joshua S Fu
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
- Computational Earth Sciences Group, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37380, United States
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- Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 21027 Ispra VA Italy
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- NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research, 2007 Kjeller, Norway
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- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SE-601 76 Norrköping, Sweden
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- Department of Atmosphere and Ocean Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B9, Canada
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- Air Quality Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
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- Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31400 Toulouse, France
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- Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Environmental Science Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Chiba 270-1194, Japan
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- Environmental Chemical Processes laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion - Crete Greece
- Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Global Atmosphere Watch Programme, Science and Innovation Department, World Meteorological Organization, Case postale 2300, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
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- NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, United States
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- Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Calonia 27709, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
- Jiani Tan is now in Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Unaffiliated, Markham, Ontario L3R 1P5, Canada
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Huang W, Wang SL. [Distribution Characteristics and Sources of Heavy Metals in Atmospheric Deposition During Heating and Non-heating Period in Lanzhou]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2022; 43:597-607. [PMID: 35075834 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202103222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Six sampling sites were set up in Lanzhou City, and atmospheric deposition samples were collected from April 2010 to March 2018. Subsequently, the concentration of heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Zn, Pb, Cr, Cu, Ni, and Cd) was determined to explore the temporal and spatial characteristics of heavy metals. Finally, partial correlation analysis, the enrichment factor method, and the principal component analysis method were used to identify the source of heavy metals in the atmospheric deposition. The results show that the ranking of average heavy metal content in the atmospheric deposition in Lanzhou from high to low was Fe > Mn > Zn > Pb > Cr > Cu > Ni > Cd, and Cd, Zn, and Pb were all polluted. In terms of time, except for Fe and Mn, the other elements mostly showed a trend of higher content in the heating period than that in the non-heating period, and the contents of each element in the non-heating period and the heating period in 2011 and 2013 were significantly different. In terms of sites, there were certain differences between the non-heating period and the heating period in each region; however, the differences among elements were not significant except for Zn and Cd. The source analysis results show that in the non-heating period, the heavy metals in the atmospheric deposition in Lanzhou mainly came from industrial sources, followed by traffic sources and fugitive dust sources. In the heating period, the heavy metals in the atmospheric deposition in Lanzhou mainly came from coal-burning, transportation, and industry activities, followed by secondary dust and natural sources.
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- Wen Huang
- College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Dong JW, Gao PP, Sun HX, Zhou C, Zhang XY, Xue PY, Liu WJ. [Characteristics and Health Risk Assessment of Cadmium, Lead, and Arsenic Accumulation in Leafy Vegetables Planted in a Greenhouse]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2022; 43:481-489. [PMID: 34989533 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202106002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In recent years, dust pollution has occurred frequently in spring and haze or fog in autumn and winter. The inhalable particulate matters in the atmosphere, especially PM2.5, loaded in heavy metals such as cadmium, lead, and arsenic, are easily taken up by leafy vegetables and accumulate in the edible parts. It is not clear whether the accumulation of heavy metals in the edible parts of leafy vegetables in greenhouses is also affected by atmospheric deposition. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted to explore characteristics and health risk assessment of cadmium, lead, and arsenic accumulation in leafy vegetables planted in a greenhouse using six types of common leafy vegetables (spinach, leaf lettuce, lettuce, pakchoi, Chrysanthemum coronarium, and fennel) in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The results showed that C. coronarium, pakchoi, and spinach are the leafy vegetables with a low accumulation of Cd, Pb, and As, respectively. Fennel is the leafy vegetable with a low accumulation of Cd and Pb. In the greenhouse, Pb concentrations in PM2.5 were 42.6 and 8.4 times of Cd and As, respectively. Moreover, PM2.5-Pb contributed on average 36.5% to the edible parts of six kinds of leafy vegetables, which indicated that the Cd, Pb, and As accumulated in leafy vegetables were mainly derived from the soil. Meanwhile, the concentrations of Cd, Pb, and As in the edible parts of vegetables did not exceed the safety limitations of three heavy metals (GB 2762-2017), and Pb accumulation in leafy vegetables does not pose a health risk to humans. However, Cd in the leafy vegetables could threaten the health of adults and children, except for the intake of fennel. Conversely, As in the C. coronarium could threaten the health of adults and children.
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- Jun-Wen Dong
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Vegetable Industry in Hebei, State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Key Laboratory of Ecological Environment of Farmland in Hebei, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Vegetable Industry in Hebei, State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Key Laboratory of Ecological Environment of Farmland in Hebei, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Vegetable Industry in Hebei, State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Key Laboratory of Ecological Environment of Farmland in Hebei, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Vegetable Industry in Hebei, State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Key Laboratory of Ecological Environment of Farmland in Hebei, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Vegetable Industry in Hebei, State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Key Laboratory of Ecological Environment of Farmland in Hebei, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Vegetable Industry in Hebei, State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Key Laboratory of Ecological Environment of Farmland in Hebei, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Vegetable Industry in Hebei, State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Key Laboratory of Ecological Environment of Farmland in Hebei, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China
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Björnsdotter MK, Yeung LWY, Kärrman A, Jogsten IE. Mass Balance of Perfluoroalkyl Acids, Including Trifluoroacetic Acid, in a Freshwater Lake. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:251-259. [PMID: 34927432 PMCID: PMC8733927 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c04472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Revised: 11/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are highly persistent chemicals that are ubiquitously found in the environment. The atmospheric degradation of precursor compounds has been identified as a source of PFAAs and might be an important pathway for contamination. Lake Vättern is one of Sweden's largest lakes and is an important source for drinking water. In addition to contamination via atmospheric deposition, the lake is subject to several potential contamination sources via surface water inflow. The relevance of different sources is not well understood. A mass balance of selected PFAAs was assembled based on measured concentrations in atmospheric deposition, surface water from streams that constitute the main inflow and outflow, and surface water in the lake. The largest input was seen for trifluoroacetic acid (150 kg/year), perfluoropropanoic acid (1.6 kg/year), perfluorobutanoic acid (4.0 kg/year), and perfluoro-octanoic acid (1.5 kg/year). Both atmospheric deposition and surface water inflow was found to be important input pathways. There was a positive correlation between the input of most perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids via atmospheric deposition and global radiation and between the input via surface water inflow and catchment area. These findings highlight the importance of atmospheric oxidation of volatile precursor compounds for contamination in surface waters.
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Liu M, Xiao W, Zhang Q, Yuan S, Raymond PA, Chen J, Liu J, Tao S, Xu Y, Wang X. Substantial accumulation of mercury in the deepest parts of the ocean and implications for the environmental mercury cycle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2102629118. [PMID: 34903647 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2102629118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Anthropogenic activities have led to widespread contamination with mercury (Hg), a potent neurotoxin that bioaccumulates through food webs. Recent models estimated that, presently, 200 to 600 t of Hg is sequestered annually in deep-sea sediments, approximately doubling since industrialization. However, most studies did not extend to the hadal zone (6,000- to 11,000-m depth), the deepest ocean realm. Here, we report on measurements of Hg and related parameters in sediment cores from four trench regions (1,560 to 10,840 m), showing that the world's deepest ocean realm is accumulating Hg at remarkably high rates (depth-integrated minimum-maximum: 24 to 220 μg ⋅ m-2 ⋅ y-1) greater than the global deep-sea average by a factor of up to 400, with most Hg in these trenches being derived from the surface ocean. Furthermore, vertical profiles of Hg concentrations in trench cores show notable increasing trends from pre-1900 [average 51 ± 14 (1σ) ng ⋅ g-1] to post-1950 (81 ± 32 ng ⋅ g-1). This increase cannot be explained by changes in the delivery rate of organic carbon alone but also need increasing Hg delivery from anthropogenic sources. This evidence, along with recent findings on the high abundance of methylmercury in hadal biota [R. Sun et al, Nat. Commun. 11, 3389 (2020); J. D. Blum et al, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 117, 29292-29298 (2020)], leads us to propose that hadal trenches are a large marine sink for Hg and may play an important role in the regulation of the global biogeochemical cycle of Hg.
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Björnsdotter MK, Hartz WF, Kallenborn R, Ericson Jogsten I, Humby JD, Kärrman A, Yeung LWY. Levels and Seasonal Trends of C 1-C 4 Perfluoroalkyl Acids and the Discovery of Trifluoromethane Sulfonic Acid in Surface Snow in the Arctic. Environ Sci Technol 2021; 55:15853-15861. [PMID: 34779623 PMCID: PMC8655978 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c04776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Revised: 10/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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C1-C4 perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are highly persistent chemicals that have been found in the environment. To date, much uncertainty still exists about their sources and fate. The importance of the atmospheric degradation of volatile precursors to C1-C4 PFAAs were investigated by studying their distribution and seasonal variation in remote Arctic locations. C1-C4 PFAAs were measured in surface snow on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian Arctic during January-August 2019. Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), perfluoropropanoic acid (PFPrA), perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA), and trifluoromethane sulfonic acid (TFMS) were detected in most samples, including samples collected at locations presumably receiving PFAA input solely from long-range processes. The flux of TFA, PFPrA, PFBA, and TFMS per precipitation event was in the ranges of 22-1800, 0.79-16, 0.19-170, and 1.5-57 ng/m2, respectively. A positive correlation between the flux of TFA, PFPrA, and PFBA with downward short-wave solar radiation was observed. No correlation was observed between the flux of TFMS and solar radiation. These findings suggest that atmospheric transport of volatile precursors and their subsequent degradation plays a major role in the global distribution of C2-C4 perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids and their consequential deposition in Arctic environments. The discovery of TFMS in surface snow at these remote Arctic locations suggests that TFMS is globally distributed. However, the transport mechanism to the Arctic environment remains unknown.
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- Maria K. Björnsdotter
- Man-Technology-Environment
Research Centre (MTM), Örebro University, Örebro SE-701 82, Sweden
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- Department
of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, United Kingdom
- Department
of Arctic Geology, University Centre in
Svalbard (UNIS), Longyearbyen, Svalbard NO-9171, Norway
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Sciences (KBM), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås NO-1432, Norway
- Department
of Arctic Technology, University Centre
in Svalbard (UNIS), Longyearbyen, Svalbard NO-9171, Norway
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- Man-Technology-Environment
Research Centre (MTM), Örebro University, Örebro SE-701 82, Sweden
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- Ice Dynamics
and Paleoclimate, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge CB3 0ET, United
Kingdom
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- Man-Technology-Environment
Research Centre (MTM), Örebro University, Örebro SE-701 82, Sweden
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- Man-Technology-Environment
Research Centre (MTM), Örebro University, Örebro SE-701 82, Sweden
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Clark SC, Barnes RT, Oleksy IA, Baron JS, Hastings MG. Persistent Nitrate in Alpine Waters with Changing Atmospheric Deposition and Warming Trends. Environ Sci Technol 2021; 55:14946-14956. [PMID: 34637308 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c02515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Nitrate concentrations in high-elevation lakes of the Colorado Front Range remain elevated despite declining trends in atmospherically deposited nitrate since 2000. The current source of this elevated nitrate in surface waters remains elusive, given shifts in additional nitrogen sources via glacial inputs and atmospheric ammonium deposition. We present the complete isotopic composition of nitrate (δ15N, δ18O, and Δ17O) from a suite of nitrate-bearing source waters collected during the summers of 2017-2018 from two alpine ecosystems to constrain the provenance of elevated nitrate in surface waters during the summer open-water season. The results indicate a consistent contribution of uncycled atmospheric nitrate throughout the summer (13-23%) to alpine lakes, despite seasonal changes in source water inputs. The balance of nitrate (as high as 87% in late summer) is likely from nitrate production within the catchment via nitrification of reduced nitrogen sources (e.g., thawed soil organic matter and ammonium deposition) and released with rock glacier meltwater. The role of microbially produced nitrate has become increasingly important over time based on historical surface water samples from the mid-90s to present, a trend coincident with increasing ammonium deposition to alpine systems.
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- Sydney C Clark
- Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
- Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- The Environmental Studies Program, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903, United States
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- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, United States
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States
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- Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
- Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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Liu M, Zhang Q, Yu C, Yuan L, He Y, Xiao W, Zhang H, Guo J, Zhang W, Li Y, Zhang Q, Chen L, Wang X. Observation-Based Mercury Export from Rivers to Coastal Oceans in East Asia. Environ Sci Technol 2021; 55:14269-14280. [PMID: 34618428 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c03755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Globally, the consumption of coastal fish is the predominant source of human exposure to methylmercury, a potent neurotoxicant that poses health risks to humans. However, the relative importance of riverine inputs and atmospheric deposition of mercury into coastal oceans remains uncertain owing to a lack of riverine mercury observations. Here, we present comprehensive seasonal observations of riverine mercury and methylmercury loads, including dissolved and particulate phases, to East Asia's coastal oceans, which supply nearly half of the world's seafood products. We found that East Asia's rivers annually exported 95 ± 29 megagrams of mercury to adjacent seas, 3-fold greater than the corresponding atmospheric deposition. Three rivers alone accounted for 71% of East Asia's riverine mercury exports, namely: Yangtze, Yellow, and Pearl rivers. We further conducted a metadata analysis to discuss the mercury burden on seawater and found that riverine export, combined with atmospheric deposition and terrestrial nutrients, quantitatively elevated the levels of total, methylated, and dissolved gaseous mercury in seawater by an order of magnitude. Our observations support that massive amounts of riverine mercury are exported to coastal oceans on a continental scale, intensifying their spread from coastal seawater to the atmosphere, marine sediments, and open oceans. We suggest that the impact of mercury transport along the land-ocean aquatic continuum should be considered in human exposure risk assessments.
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- Maodian Liu
- Ministry of Education Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States
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- Ministry of Education Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Ministry of Education Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Ministry of Education Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Department of Life Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, 1080 Shennecossett Road, Groton, Connecticut 06340, United States
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- Department of Ocean Science and Engineering & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Archaea Geo-Omics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), 523936 Guangzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Ministry of Education Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Andronikov AV, Novak M, Oulehle F, Chrastny V, Sebek O, Andronikova IE, Stepanova M, Sipkova A, Hruska J, Myska O, Chuman T, Veselovsky F, Curik J, Prechova E, Komarek A. Catchment Runoff in Industrial Areas Exports Legacy Pollutant Zinc from the Topsoil Rather than Geogenic Zn. Environ Sci Technol 2021; 55:8035-8044. [PMID: 34042419 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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In highly industrialized, densely populated parts of Central Europe, mobilization of legacy Zn pollution from forest ecosystems may negatively affect the quality of water resources. To test this hypothesis, we determined the 66Zn/64Zn isotope ratios of 15 Zn reservoirs and fluxes in an acidified, spruce die-back affected mountain-slope catchment in northern Czech Republic. The δ66Zn values of precipitation, organic horizon, and runoff were statistically indistinguishable. In contrast, δ66Zn values of bedrock orthogneiss and mineral soil were significantly different from δ66Zn values of runoff. The magnitude of within-site Zn isotope fractionations appeared to be relatively small. Despite the large potential source of Zn in bedrock, runoff exported mostly young pollutant Zn that had been temporarily stored in the organic horizon. This conclusion was corroborated by comparing Zn input-output mass balances in the polluted northern catchment and in a relatively unpolluted catchment situated 250 km to the south. Seven-times higher Zn export via runoff at the northern site was controlled by a combination of 10-times higher atmospheric Zn input and five-times higher DOC leaching, compared to the southern site. In industrial areas, atmospherically deposited Zn is leached from headwater catchments in a direct analogy to leaching of highly toxic pollutant Pb.
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, 165 21 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, 165 21 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Sokolovska 49, 186 75 Prague 8, Czech Republic
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Zhen X, Li Y, Tang J, Wang X, Liu L, Zhong M, Tian C. Decabromodiphenyl Ether versus Decabromodiphenyl Ethane: Source, Fate, and Influencing Factors in a Coastal Sea Nearing Source Region. Environ Sci Technol 2021; 55:7376-7385. [PMID: 33998794 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c08528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Both decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209) and decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE) are still produced in large quantities in China, especially in the Shandong Province closed to the Bohai Sea (BS). This study conducted a comprehensive investigation of the distribution and budget of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in the BS. BDE 209 was the predominant BFR in most of the investigated rivers flowing into the BS, although DBDPE exceeded BDE 209 in certain rivers as a result of the replacement of BDE 209 with DBDPE in North China. The spatial distributions of BFRs in the rivers were controlled by the proximity of the BFR manufacturing base and the extent of urbanization. BFRs' spatial distribution in the BS was influenced by a combination of land-based pollution sources, environmental parameters (e.g., suspended particulate matter, particulate organic carbon, and particulate black carbon), and hydrodynamic conditions. The spatial variation trend of BDE 209/DBDPE ratios in various environmental media provided useful information. Vertically, the BDE 209/DBDPE ratio decreased from the seawater surface layer to the sediment, indicating their differential transport in the BS. A multi-box mass balance model and analysis of BDE 209 showed that degradation was the primary sink of BFRs in seawater (∼68%) and surface sediment (∼72%) in the BS.
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- Xiaomei Zhen
- State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou 510631, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou 510631, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou 510631, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing 100049, China
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- Yantai University, Yantai, Shandong 264005, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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Blanchard D, Aherne J, Makar P. Dissolved Organic Carbon in Lakes of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region: Is Color an Indicator of Acid Sensitivity? Environ Sci Technol 2021; 55:6791-6803. [PMID: 33913702 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c00507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The Athabasca oil sands region (AOSR) in north-eastern Alberta, Canada, contains the world's third largest known bitumen deposit. Oil sands (OS) operations produce emissions known to contribute to acidic and alkaline deposition, which can alter the chemistry of the receiving surface waters, including dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Little is known regarding the natural variability of aquatic DOC among lakes within the AOSR. Surface-water data from 50 lakes were analyzed; variables known to be associated with the light-absorptive properties of DOC (true color [TC]) were evaluated to investigate the potential variability of chromophoric DOC (CDOC). Comparison of TC and DOC revealed two distinct "high" (H) and "low" (L) lake subpopulations, the former being characterized by high relative TC and low DOC, and the latter by the inverse. The H lakes were defined by variables known to be associated with CDOC, while L lakes appeared well-buffered potentially owing to groundwater inputs. The divergent optical properties between subpopulations appeared partially attributable to pH-limited Fe complexation. Trajectory analysis indicated that H lakes most likely to receive atmospheric deposition from OS sources experienced significantly lower pH. These results are contrary to previous studies that found OS emissions to have minimal acidifying effect over lakes throughout the AOSR.
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- Dane Blanchard
- School of the Environment, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8
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- School of the Environment, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8
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- Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T4
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Li DY, Qi XB, Wu J, Huang SF, Wang M, Sha CY, Shen C. [Distribution Characteristics and Source Apportionment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Atmospheric Deposition in Areas Adjacent to a Large Petrochemical Enterprise]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2021; 42:106-113. [PMID: 33372462 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202005263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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In order to explore the influence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) emissions by petrochemical enterprises on the surrounding environment, atmospheric deposition samples of the PAHs were collected in the industrial and residential areas adjacent to a petrochemical enterprise from March 2017 to February 2018. Deposition fluxes and the composition of PAHs were studied. The source of PAHs was analyzed by a positive matrix factor (PMF) model. The results showed that the deposition fluxes of Σ15 PAHs ranged from 549 ng·(m2·d)-1 to 18845 ng·(m2·d)-1, with an average of 2712 ng·(m2·d)-1. The flux of Σ15 PAHs in the industrial area was 1.36 times greater than that in the residential area. The deposition fluxes of PAHs in winter and spring were higher than those in summer and autumn. The deposition flux was highest in January in the industrial area and lowest in October in the residential area. Phe, BbF, and Fla were the dominant monomers. There was noticeable difference of monomers between the industrial area and the residential area in summer and autumn. The monomers, such as BbF, BkF, and BgP, in the residential area were higher than those in industrial area, and the proportion of 5, 6 rings was higher, which indicated that traffic contributed more to the residential area; 3 ring PAHs in industrial area had a higher proportion, which pointed out that their main source was petroleum volatilization. Based on the quantitative source analysis, the PAHs in atmospheric deposition were mainly from traffic emissions, petroleum volatilization, and coal combustion. Three sources of PAHs accounted for 45.7%, 18.4%, 35.9%, and 46.3%, 21.4%, and 32.3%, respectively, in the industrial area and the residential area in winter and spring. In summer and autumn, the contribution of traffic sources to the residential area was as high as 65.2%, and the proportion of the petroleum source to the industrial area increased to 35.5%. Due to high-altitude emissions and favorable diffusion conditions, the coal combustion contribution was significantly reduced.
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- Da-Yan Li
- Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China
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- Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute(Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200092, China
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- Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China
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- Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China
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- Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China
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- Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China
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- Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China
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Zhang X, Liu B, Xiao BL, Wang J, Wan D. [Pollution Characteristics and Assessment of Heavy Metals in Atmospheric Deposition in Core Urban Areas,Chongqing]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2020; 41:5288-5294. [PMID: 33374044 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202001142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Pollution characteristics and risk of heavy metals in atmospheric deposition in core urban areas of Chongqing were investigated for one year from December 2017 to November 2018.Six functional zones:suburb, education area, residential area, commercial area, transportation hub, and industrial-residential area in Chongqing were selected for monthly atmospheric deposition collection. Concentrations of Cd, Cr, Ni, and Pb were analyzed using AAS. The potential ecological risk index and geoaccumulation index were used to evaluate the heavy metals pollution. Results show that the concentrations of Cd, Cr, Ni, and Pb in the atmospheric deposition were 1.59, 72.68, 20.99, and 101.17 mg·kg-1, respectively, and their annual deposition fluxes were 0.39, 8.04, 2.41, and 10.41 mg·(m2·a)-1, respectively. Concentrations of heavy metals in autumn were significantly higher than those in the other three seasons, especially for Cd, and their deposition fluxes in winter were lowest. The potential ecological risk index of Cd was biggest, achieving a very high ecological hazard level, while the ecological risk of Cd and Pb in industrial-residential area was highest, and that of Cr and Ni, respectively, were highest in transportation hub and residential area. The geoaccumulation index indicated that the pollution of Cd was the highest, and that of Cr, Ni, and Pb was very low. The pollution in industrial-residential area and transportation hub was high, while that in the suburb was relatively low.
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- Xia Zhang
- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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Škerlep M, Steiner E, Axelsson A, Kritzberg ES. Afforestation driving long-term surface water browning. Glob Chang Biol 2020; 26:1390-1399. [PMID: 31667991 PMCID: PMC7079054 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 09/22/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Increase in surface water color (browning), caused by rising dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and iron concentrations, has been widely reported and studied in the last couple of decades. This phenomenon has implications to aquatic ecosystem function and biogeochemical carbon cycling. While recovery from acidification and changes in climate-related variables, such as precipitation and length of growing season, are recognized as drivers behind browning, land-use change has received less attention. In this study, we include all of the above factors and aim to discern their individual and combined contribution to water color variation in an unprecedentedly long (1940-2016) and highly resolved dataset (~20 times per month), from a river in southern Sweden. Water color showed high seasonal variability and a marked long-term increase, particularly in the latter half of the dataset (~1980). Short-term and seasonal variations were best explained by precipitation, with temperature playing a secondary role. All explanatory variables (precipitation, temperature, S deposition, and land-use change) contributed significantly and together predicted 75% of the long-term variation in water color. Long-term change was best explained by a pronounced increase in Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst) volume-a measure of land-use change and a proxy for buildup of organic soil layers-and by change in atmospheric S deposition. When modeling water color with a combination of explanatory variables, Norway spruce showed the highest contribution to explaining long-term variability. This study highlights the importance of considering land-use change as a factor behind browning and combining multiple factors when making predictions in water color and DOC.
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- Department of Forest Resource ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUmeåSweden
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The atmosphere is composed of nitrogen, oxygen and argon, a variety of trace gases, and particles or aerosols from a variety of sources. Reactive, trace gases have short mean residence time in the atmosphere and large spatial and temporal variations in concentration. Many trace gases are removed by reaction with hydroxyl radical and deposition in rainfall or dryfall at the Earth's surface. The upper atmosphere, the stratosphere, contains ozone that screens ultraviolet light from the Earth's surface. Chlorofluorocarbons released by humans lead to the loss of stratospheric ozone, which might eventually render the Earth's land surface uninhabitable. Changes in the composition of the atmosphere, especially rising concentrations of CO2, CH4, and N2O, will lead to climatic changes over much of the Earth's surface.
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- Fiona M Soper
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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Jiang K, Deng X, Zhou H, Long J, Li XY, Dong X, Wang SB, Liu WH, Hou HB, Peng PQ, Liao BH. [Cd Balance Analysis of a Typical Rice Paddy System in Central Hunan]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2019; 40:3324-3330. [PMID: 31854734 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.201811175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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By conducting field positioning experiments, we studied the development trend of Cd pollution in a typical paddy system. The samples of atmospheric deposition and irrigation water were collected monthly from November 2015 to November 2018 during which fertilizer, soil, and rice samples were also collected. The Cd concentration in the samples was monitored and analyzed to conduct research on the balance between Cd inputs and outputs in a typical paddy system in Hunan Province. The results suggest that through irrigation water, atmospheric deposition and fertilizer, the average annual input of Cd in the paddy field system is 8.735 g·(hm2·a)-1, of which atmospheric deposition, the major source, accounts for 69.15%-82.04% of the total input, with an average of 76.61%. This is followed by irrigation water and fertilizer, respectively, accounting for 12.62%-23.66% and 5.34%-7.19%, with an average of 16.94% and 6.45%, respectively. Through surface runoff, soil infiltration and the rice harvest of the aboveground portion, the annual average output of Cd contained in the paddy system is 7.093 g·(hm2·a)-1. Rice harvest accounts for 85.27%-95.02% of the total output, with an average of 89.69%; surface runoff accounted for 4.57%-13.96% of the total output, with an average of 9.41%; and soil infiltration accounted for 0.41%-1.51% of the total output, with an average of 0.90%. The study indicates that Cd contained in paddy systems in Central Hunan exhibits a net input, and the soil Cd pollution is increasing as a result. Straw returning and straw removal have an important impact on the soil Cd balance, and straw removal can slow the trend of soil Cd pollution accumulation.
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- Kai Jiang
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.,Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Control of Rice Quality and Safety, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.,Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Control of Rice Quality and Safety, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.,Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Control of Rice Quality and Safety, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.,Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Control of Rice Quality and Safety, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.,Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Control of Rice Quality and Safety, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.,Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Control of Rice Quality and Safety, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- Agricultural Integrated Service Center of Changsha County, Huangxing Town, Changsha 410100, China
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- Agricultural Integrated Service Center of Ningxiang City, Shuangjiangkou Town, Changsha 410601, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.,Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Control of Rice Quality and Safety, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.,Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Control of Rice Quality and Safety, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.,Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Control of Rice Quality and Safety, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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Symstad AJ, Smith AT, Newton WE, Knapp AK. Experimentally derived nitrogen critical loads for northern Great Plains vegetation. Ecol Appl 2019; 29:e01915. [PMID: 31056839 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Revised: 03/07/2019] [Accepted: 04/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The critical load concept facilitates communication between scientists and policy makers and land managers by translating the complex effects of air pollution on ecosystems into unambiguous numbers that can be used to inform air quality targets. Anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition adversely affects a variety of ecosystems, but the information used to derive critical loads for North American ecosystems is sparse and often based on experiments investigating N loads substantially higher than current or expected atmospheric deposition. In a 4-yr field experiment in the northern Great Plains (NGP) of North America, where current N deposition levels range from ~3 to 9 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1 , we added 12 levels of N, from 2.5 to 100 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1 , to three sites spanning a range of soil fertility and productivity. Our results suggest a conservative critical load of 4-6 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1 for the most sensitive vegetation type we investigated, badlands sparse vegetation, a community that supports plant species adapted to low fertility conditions, where N addition at this rate increased productivity and litter load. In contrast, for the two more productive vegetation types characteristic of most NGP grasslands, a critical load of 6-10 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1 was identified. Here, N addition at this level altered plant tissue chemistry and increased nonnative species. These critical loads are below the currently suggested range of 10-25 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1 for NGP vegetation and within the range of current or near-future deposition, suggesting that N deposition may already be inducing fundamental changes in NGP ecosystems.
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- Amy J Symstad
- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, 26611 U.S. Highway 385, Hot Springs, South Dakota, 57747, USA
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- Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, North Dakota, 58401, USA
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- Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523, USA
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Marín-Beltrán I, Logue JB, Andersson AF, Peters F. Atmospheric Deposition Impact on Bacterial Community Composition in the NW Mediterranean. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:858. [PMID: 31068921 PMCID: PMC6491866 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Atmospheric deposition is a source of inorganic nutrients and organic matter to the ocean, and can favor the growth of some planktonic species over others according to their nutrient requirements. Atmospheric inputs from natural and anthropogenic sources are nowadays increasing due to desertification and industrialization, respectively. While the impact of mineral dust (mainly from the Saharan desert) on phytoplankton and bacterial community composition has been previously assessed, the effect of anthropogenic aerosols on marine bacterial assemblages remains poorly studied. Since marine bacteria play a range of roles in the biogeochemical cycles of inorganic nutrients and organic carbon, it is important to determine which taxa of marine bacteria may benefit from aerosol fertilization and which not. Here, we experimentally assessed the effect of Saharan dust and anthropogenic aerosols on marine bacterioplankton community composition across a spatial and temporal range of trophic conditions in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Results from 16S rDNA sequencing showed that bacterial diversity varied significantly with seasonality and geographical location. While atmospheric deposition did not yield significant changes in community composition when all the experiments where considered together, it did produce changes at certain places and during certain times of the year. These effects accounted for shifts in the bacterial community's relative abundance of up to 28%. The effect of aerosols was overall greatest in summer, both types of atmospheric particles stimulating the groups Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, and Cyanobacteria in the location with the highest anthropogenic footprint. Other bacterial groups benefited from one or the other aerosol depending on the season and location. Anthropogenic aerosols increased the relative abundance of groups belonging to the phylum Bacteriodetes (Cytophagia, Flavobacteriia, and Sphingobacteriia), while Saharan dust stimulated most the phytoplanktonic group of Cyanobacteria and, more specifically, Synechococcus.
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- Department of Biology/Aquatic Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems (EEMiS), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Gene Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Zhang Y, Foley KM, Schwede DB, Bash JO, Pinto JP, Dennis RL. A Measurement-Model Fusion Approach for Improved Wet Deposition Maps and Trends. J Geophys Res Atmos 2019; 124:4237-4251. [PMID: 31218153 PMCID: PMC6559167 DOI: 10.1029/2018jd029051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2018] [Revised: 02/25/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Air quality models provide spatial fields of wet deposition (WD) and dry deposition that explicitly account for the transport and transformation of emissions from thousands of sources. However, many sources of uncertainty in the air quality model including errors in emissions and meteorological inputs (particularly precipitation) and incomplete descriptions of the chemical and physical processes governing deposition can lead to bias and error in the simulation of WD. We present an approach to bias correct Community Multiscale Air Quality model output over the contiguous United States using observation-based gridded precipitation data generated by the Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model and WD observations at the National Atmospheric Deposition Program National Trends Network sites. A cross-validation analysis shows that the adjusted annual accumulated WD for NO3 -, NH4 +, and SO4 2- from 2002 to 2012 has less bias and higher correlation with observed values than the base model output without adjustment. Temporal trends in observed WD are captured well by the adjusted model simulations across the entire contiguous United States. Consistent with previous trend analyses, WD NO3 - and SO4 2- are shown to decrease during this period in the eastern half of the United States, particularly in the Northeast, while remaining nearly constant in the West. Trends in WD of NH4 + are more spatially and temporally heterogeneous, with some positive trends in the Great Plains and Central Valley of CA and slightly negative trends in the south.
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- Yuqiang Zhang
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyResearch Triangle ParkNCUSA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyResearch Triangle ParkNCUSA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and EngineeringUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillNCUSA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyResearch Triangle ParkNCUSA
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Ren JG, Jia HB, Jiao LX, Wang YR, Yang SW, Wu QQ, Gao QS, Cui ZD, Hao ZF. [Characteristics of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Formation in Atmospheric Deposition in Dianchi Lake and Their Contributions to Lake Loading]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2019; 40:582-589. [PMID: 30628320 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.201805002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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To examine the effects of seasonal changes and precipitation on the concentrations of various nitrogen and phosphorus forms in Dianchi Lake, the concentrations of various nitrogen and phosphorus forms of atmospheric deposition were determined by UV spectrophotometry. Additionally, the contributions of nitrogen and phosphorus to water pollution in Dianchi Lake were discussed. The results showed that the atmospheric depositional nitrogen concentration in Dianchi Lake is generally consistent with the characteristics of the low rainy season and high dry season. The nitrogen and phosphorus load of atmospheric deposition was positively correlated with rainfall. Seasonal changes were mainly characterized by low dry season and high rainy season. The atmospheric depositional nitrogen load was dominated by dissolved inorganic nitrogen, which accounted for 63.70% of the total nitrogen deposition load. The phosphorus load was mainly PP, which accounted for 45.54% of the total phosphorus precipitation load. Excessive fertilization and loss of nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers are the major sources of nitrogen and phosphorus in atmospheric wet deposition. Combined with data from rivers entering the lake, the settlements of TN and TP in the atmospheric deposition of Dianchi Lake were 6.14% and 12.76% of the river load, respectively. Therefore, the primary source of pollution in Dianchi Lake was still the load brought by the river into the lake. However, the nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes in the atmospheric deposition of Dianchi Lake were at intermediate levels compared with other regions, so this contribution requires further investigation.
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- Jia-Guo Ren
- College of Geoscience and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
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- College of Geoscience and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China.,State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,Key Laboratory of Pollution and Management in Yunnan Plateau Lake Basin, Kunming 650034, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,Key Laboratory of Pollution and Management in Yunnan Plateau Lake Basin, Kunming 650034, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,Key Laboratory of Pollution and Management in Yunnan Plateau Lake Basin, Kunming 650034, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- College of Geoscience and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- College of Geoscience and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China.,State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- College of Geoscience and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China.,State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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Wang JF, Zhu X, Shen JL, Zeng GJ, Wang J, Wu JS, Li Y. [Atmospheric Ammonia/Ammonium-nitrogen Concentrations and Wet and Dry Deposition Rates in a Double Rice Region in Subtropical China]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2018; 38:2264-2272. [PMID: 29965342 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.201610177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Ammonia (NH3) is the most abundant alkaline gas in the ambient air, and it is also one of the important precursors for the ammonium salts in aerosol and rainwater. Though the emission intensities of NH3 and acidic gases are high, the concentrations and deposition rates of atmospheric ammonia-nitrogen (NH3-N), particulate ammonium-nitrogen (NH4+-Np) and rainwater ammonium-nitrogen (NH4+-Nr) in double rice regions in subtropical China are still less known. In this study, atmospheric concentrations of NH3-N, NH4+-Np in PM10 and NH4+-Nr and related meteorological parameters were observed simultaneously in a typical double rice region in the subtropical hilly region of China, with the aim to clarify the characteristics and influencing factors of atmospheric NH3/NH4+-N concentrations and to quantify the wet and dry deposition rates of atmospheric NH3/NH4+-N. The results showed that the annual mean concentrations of nitrogen in NH3-N, NH4+-Np and NH4+-Nr were 5.7 μg·m-3, 12.8 μg·m-3 and 0.8 mg·L-1, respectively, and their deposition rates were 8.38, 5.61 and 9.07 kg·(hm2·a)-1, respectively. The NH3-N concentration was significantly increased after application of nitrogen fertilizer in the paddy field, and had a significant positive correlation with the air temperature. The NH4+-Np concentration did not show significant correlation with NH3-N concentration, indicating that atmospheric NH3-N concentration was not the main limiting factor for the NH4+-Np pollution in the studied region. The NH4+-Nr concentration was positively correlated with the NH4+-Np concentration but negatively correlated with precipitation. The high concentrations and deposition rates of atmospheric NH3-N/NH4+-N in the studied region indicated that the atmospheric NH3/NH4+-N pollution was serious, and atmospheric deposition of NH3/NH4+-N was an important nitrogen source in paddy fields, which should be considered in cropland nitrogen nutrient management.
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- Jie-Fei Wang
- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,Changsha Research Station for Agricultural & Environmental Monitoring, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,Changsha Research Station for Agricultural & Environmental Monitoring, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,Changsha Research Station for Agricultural & Environmental Monitoring, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,Changsha Research Station for Agricultural & Environmental Monitoring, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,Changsha Research Station for Agricultural & Environmental Monitoring, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,Changsha Research Station for Agricultural & Environmental Monitoring, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,Changsha Research Station for Agricultural & Environmental Monitoring, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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Tesson SVM, Šantl-Temkiv T. Ice Nucleation Activity and Aeolian Dispersal Success in Airborne and Aquatic Microalgae. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2681. [PMID: 30483227 PMCID: PMC6240693 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Microalgae are common members of the atmospheric microbial assemblages. Diverse airborne microorganisms are known to produce ice nucleation active (INA) compounds, which catalyze cloud and rain formation, and thus alter cloud properties and their own deposition patterns. While the role of INA bacteria and fungi in atmospheric processes receives considerable attention, the numerical abundance and the capacity for ice nucleation in atmospheric microalgae are understudied. We isolated 81 strains of airborne microalgae from snow samples and determined their taxonomy by sequencing their ITS markers, 18S rRNA genes or 23S rRNA genes. We studied ice nucleation activity of airborne isolates, using droplet freezing assays, and their ability to withstand freezing. For comparison, we investigated 32 strains of microalgae from a culture collection, which were isolated from polar and temperate aqueous habitats. We show that ∼17% of airborne isolates, which belonged to taxa Trebouxiphyceae, Chlorophyceae and Stramenopiles, were INA. A large fraction of INA strains (over 40%) had ice nucleation activity at temperatures ≥-6°C. We found that 50% of aquatic microalgae were INA, but the majority were active at temperatures <-12°C. Most INA compounds produced by microalgae were proteinaceous and associated with the cells. While there were no deleterious effects of freezing on the viability of airborne microalgae, some of the aquatic strains were killed by freezing. In addition, the effect of desiccation was investigated for the aquatic strains and was found to constitute a limiting factor for their atmospheric dispersal. In conclusion, airborne microalgae possess adaptations to atmospheric dispersal, in contrast to microalgae isolated from aquatic habitats. We found that widespread taxa of both airborne and aquatic microalgae were INA at warm, sub-zero temperatures (>-15°C) and may thus participate in cloud and precipitation formation.
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- Sylvie V. M. Tesson
- Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Section for Microbiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Wang XT, Cohen AL, Luu V, Ren H, Su Z, Haug GH, Sigman DM. Natural forcing of the North Atlantic nitrogen cycle in the Anthropocene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:10606-11. [PMID: 30275314 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801049115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle intensified over the 1900s. Model simulations suggest that large swaths of the open ocean, including the North Atlantic and the western Pacific, have already been affected by anthropogenic nitrogen through atmospheric transport and deposition. Here we report an ∼130-year-long record of the 15N/14N of skeleton-bound organic matter in a coral from the outer reef of Bermuda, which provides a test of the hypothesis that anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen has significantly augmented the nitrogen supply to the open North Atlantic surface ocean. The Bermuda 15N/14N record does not show a long-term decline in the Anthropocene of the amplitude predicted by model simulations or observed in a western Pacific coral 15N/14N record. Rather, the decadal variations in the Bermuda 15N/14N record appear to be driven by the North Atlantic Oscillation, most likely through changes in the formation rate of Subtropical Mode Water. Given that anthropogenic nitrogen emissions have been decreasing in North America since the 1990s, this study suggests that in the coming decades, the open North Atlantic will remain minimally affected by anthropogenic nitrogen deposition.
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Evaluating environmental policies requires estimating the impacts of policy-induced changes on ecological and human systems. Drawing connections between biophysical and economic models is complex due to the multidisciplinary nature of the task and the lack of data. Further, time and resource constraints typically limit our ability to conduct original valuation studies to fit the specific policy context. Policy analysts thus rely on methods to transfer and adapt value estimates from existing studies. To conduct end-to-end policy analysis, assumptions are needed to make the linkages between ecological and valuation models as well as to conduct benefit transfers. This paper discusses an approach that can potentially help a policy analyst to minimize assumptions and identify appropriate caveats. This approach focuses on what human beings truly value from ecosystems, or, in other words, metrics of Final Ecosystem Goods and Services (FEGS). our hypothesis is that the FEGS approach will help support policy analysis by drawing important linkages between ecological and economic models as well as by designing valuation studies that will be more conducive to benefit transfers. To examine this hypothesis, we use a selected set of existing valuation studies as case study examples, and we examine how the methods used in these studies compare with the FEGS approach. We find that the studies are not always consistent with the FEGS approach, in many cases due to data limitations. We illustrate ways in which using FEGS metrics can provide economists with a useful starting point for considering how the commodity can be defined and specified in the valuation study. Even if data limitations exist, a FEGS approach can help in determining whether the context in which the original study was conducted matches with the policy context. This can also help in determining the extent of uncertainty associated with the analysis and in providing transparent documentation that can be informative for policy makers.
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- Paramita Sinha
- RTI International, 701 13th Street, N.W., Suite 750, Washington, D.C. 20005 USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 200 SW 35th Street, Corvallis, Oregon 97333 USA
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- RTI International, 3040 East Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 USA
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- Resources for the Future, 1616 P St. NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20036 USA
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Tian CH, Yang RZ, Gulizhaer Y, Qian X, Wang JH, Li HM. [Pollution Levels and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals from Atmospheric Deposition in Nanjing]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2018; 39:3118-3125. [PMID: 29962134 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.201709120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In order to evaluate the pollution levels of and risk from heavy metals in the atmospheric deposition of different functional urban districts, dust samples were collected from 20 sampling sites in typical industrial, traffic, residential, and educational districts of Nanjing. The concentrations of As, Ba, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sr, Ti, V, and Zn were analyzed. The potential ecological risk and health risk were evaluated using the potential ecological risk index and U.S. EPA's health risk assessment models. Enrichment factors, correlation analysis, and principal component analysis were used to analyze the sources of heavy metals. Results showed that the concentrations of As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, and Zn were the highest in the industrial district and the concentrations of Ba, Ni, Ti, and V were the highest in the traffic district. The value of the potential ecological risk index was the highest in the industrial district and lowest in the educational district. Meanwhile, the ecological risk of Cr was the highest, achieving a moderate ecological hazard level. None of the studied heavy metals had noncarcinogenic risk or carcinogenic risk, according to the results of health risk assessment. Source analysis indicated that heavy metals in the atmospheric deposition from the study areas were mainly from traffic and industrial activities, coal combustion, natural process and life sources.
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- Chun-Hui Tian
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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CLARK CHRISTOPHERM, PHELAN JENNIFER, DORAISWAMY PRAKASH, BUCKLEY JOHN, CAJKA JAMESC, DENNIS ROBINL, LYNCH JASON, NOLTE CHRISTOPHERG, SPERO TANYAL. Atmospheric deposition and exceedances of critical loads from 1800-2025 for the conterminous United States. Ecol Appl 2018; 28:978-1002. [PMID: 29714821 PMCID: PMC8637495 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Revised: 12/09/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) has increased dramatically over pre-industrial levels, with many potential impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Quantitative thresholds, termed "critical loads" (CLs), have been developed to estimate the deposition rate above which damage is thought to occur. However, there remains no comprehensive comparison of when, where, and over what time periods individual CLs have been exceeded. We addressed this knowledge gap by combining several published data sources for historical and contemporary deposition, and overlaying these on six CL types from the National Critical Loads Database (NCLDv2.5; terrestrial acidification, aquatic acidification, lichen, nitrate leaching, plant community composition, and forest-tree health) to examine exceedances from 1800 to 2011. We expressed CLs as the minimum, 10th, and 50th percentiles within 12-km grid cells. Minimum CLs were relatively uniform across the country (200-400 eq·ha-1 ·yr-1 ), and have been exceeded for decades beginning in the early 20th century. The area exceeding minimum CLs peaked in the 1970s and 1980s, exposing 300,000 to 3 million km2 (depending on the CL type) to harmful levels of deposition, with a total area exceeded of 5.8 million km2 (~70% of the conterminous United States). Since then, deposition levels have dropped, especially for S, with modest reductions in exceedance by 2011 for all CL types, totaling 5.2 million km2 in exceedance. The 10th and 50th percentile CLs followed similar trends, but were not consistently available at the 12-km grid scale. We also examined near-term future deposition and exceedances in 2025 under current air quality regulations, and under various scenarios of climate change and additional nitrogen management controls. Current regulations were projected to reduce exceedances of any CL from 5.2 million km2 in 2011 to 4.8 million km2 in 2025. None of the additional N management or climate scenarios significantly affected areal exceedances, although exceedance severity declined. In total, it is clear that many CLs have been exceeded for decades, and are likely to remain so in the short term under current policies. Additionally, we suggest many areas for improvement to enhance our understanding of deposition and its effects to support informed decision making.
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- CHRISTOPHER M. CLARK
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (8623-P), Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20460 USA
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- RTI International, 3040 East Cornwallis Rd., P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA
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- RTI International, 3040 East Cornwallis Rd., P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA
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- RTI International, 3040 East Cornwallis Rd., P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA
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- RTI International, 3040 East Cornwallis Rd., P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA
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- Retired. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Atmospheric Programs, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20460 USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA
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Jiang Y, Fan M, Hu R, Zhao J, Wu Y. Mosses Are Better than Leaves of Vascular Plants in Monitoring Atmospheric Heavy Metal Pollution in Urban Areas. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2018; 15:ijerph15061105. [PMID: 29844273 PMCID: PMC6025423 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15061105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Revised: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 05/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mosses and leaves of vascular plants have been used as bioindicators of environmental contamination by heavy metals originating from various sources. This study aims to compare the metal accumulation capabilities of mosses and vascular species in urban areas and quantify the suitability of different taxa for monitoring airborne heavy metals. One pleurocarpous feather moss species, Haplocladium angustifolium, and two evergreen tree species, Cinnamomum bodinieriOsmanthus fragrans, and substrate soil were sampled in the urban area of different land use types in Wuhan City in China. The concentrations of Ag, As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Mo, Ni, V, Pb, and Zn in these samples were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The differences of heavy metals concentration in the three species showed that the moss species was considerably more capable of accumulating heavy metals than tree leaves (3 times to 51 times). The accumulated concentration of heavy metals in the moss species depended on the metal species and land use type. The enrichment factors of metals for plants and the correlations of metals in plants with corresponding metals in soil reflected that the accumulated metals in plants stemmed mostly from atmospheric deposition, rather than the substrate soil. Anthropogenic factors, such as traffic emissions from automobile transportation and manufacturing industries, were primarily responsible for the variations in metal pollutants in the atmosphere and subsequently influenced the metal accumulation in the mosses. This study elucidated that the moss species H. angustifolium is relatively more suitable than tree leaves of C. bodinieri and O. fragrans in monitoring heavy metal pollution in urban areas, and currently Wuhan is at a lower contamination level of atmospheric heavy metals than some other cities in China.
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- Yanbin Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
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Feng WL, Guo ZH, Shi L, Xiao XY, Han XQ, Ran HZ, Xue QH. [Distribution and Accumulation of Cadmium in Paddy Soil and Rice Affected by Pollutant Sources Control and Improvement Measures]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2018; 39:399-405. [PMID: 29965707 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.201706233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The objective of this study was to determine the effect of five scenarios on the accumulation of Cd in the soil-rice system, including the return of straw to the field and the lack of the return, atmospheric deposition control, use of clean water for irrigation, and the use of lime. For the field experiments, three typical paddies were selected and divided into five plots (5 m×6 m) in Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, and Liling in the Hunan province from April to October 2016. The results showed that the application of lime can increase pH by 0.87, while the available Cd concentration in the soil was decreased by 33.7%. The accumulations of Cd in roots, stems, and brown rice were decreased by 47.9%, 46.7%, and 54.8%, respectively, with a decrease in the corresponding bioconcentration factors. Irrigating with clean water and liming tended to increase the soil pH by 0.44 and 0.49, respectively, while the available Cd concentration in the soil was decreased by 18.2% and 14.5%, respectively. The Cd concentrations in roots, stems, and brown rice were decreased by 32.6%, 24.2%, and 18.0%, and 17.6%, 11.3%, and 25.4% with decreased bioconcentration factors under both treatments (irrigating with clean water and liming). The available Cd concentration in the soil was increased by 6.1% and the Cd accumulation in the rice plants also increased with the return of straw to the soil. The bioconcentration factors of the rice plants were also increased when the paddy straw was returned to the fields. The results showed that the measures, such as the use of lime, atmospheric deposition control, use of clean water for irrigation, and lack of the return of straw to the paddy soil, should be helpful for the safe production of brown rice. The possible long-term risks associated with returning straw to the paddy field should be evaluated scientifically.
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- Wen-Li Feng
- School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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