Assessing the Impacts of Long-Range Sulfur and Nitrogen Deposition on Arctic and Sub-Arctic Ecosystems

• Published in: AMBIO
• Main Authors: Forsius, Martin, Posch, Maximilian, Aherne, Julian, Reinds, Gert Jan, Christensen, Jesper, Hole, Lars
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2010
• Subjects: Report; Arctic; Norilsk; norilsk; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357685; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20653276; https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-010-0022-7

For more than a decade, anthropogenic sulfur (S) and nitrogen (N) deposition has been identified as a key pollutant in the Arctic. In this study new critical loads of acidity (S and N) were estimated for terrestrial ecosystems north of 60° latitude by applying the Simple Mass Balance (SMB) model usi...