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

• Published in: AMBIO
• Main Authors: Forsius, M., Posch, M., Aherne, J., Reinds, G.J., Christensen, J., Hole, L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: acidification; air-pollution; critical loads; forest ecosystems; model; pechenga; simulation; soil; terrestrial ecosystems; uncertainty; Arctic; Norilsk; Pechenga; norilsk; Siberia
• Online Access: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/assessing-the-impacts-of-long-range-sulfur-and-nitrogen-depositio; 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 60A degrees latitude by applying the Simple Mass Balance (SMB) m...