Mapping the impact of anthropogenic depositions on high elevated alpine forests

✍ Scribed by W.K. Graber; R.T.W. Siegwolf; W. Nater; S. Leonardi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 781 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0266-9838
• DOI: 10.1016/s0266-9838(96)00021-4

✦ Synopsis

A multimedia approach is presented to ex;~luatc ~he atlnospheric nnl,act on Alpine torests m S,~.it/erland The am-~ ol ttas approach is the determination of anlhropogenic air pollutants leading to wet and dry depositions in an area a~ong the Sankt Gotthard transect crossing the Alps in the North South direction and In cxaluate the F)ssible changes in the soil chemistry This approach takes into account the historical development of the emissions in nrder to calculate the depositions back It) tie beginning t)l this century and is spatially resolving to realize the mapping of cmical ;cvel,, and loads. The deposiuon model is supplemented wid~ a ,~til model in order to calculate the future development or the toresl soil It is sh,)wn that a >,ustainable development of the Alpine ecosystems under consideration ix only possible on conditio!" ,,l :~ ~,t1~4 reduction of nitrogen and sulphur depo~ lion. ( opyright ' ~ !~!96 Elsevier Science Lid