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Joining empirical and modelling approaches to estimate dry deposition of nitrogen in Mediterranean forests

Autores: García-Gómez, H.; Izquieta Rojano, Sheila; Aguillaume, L.; González-Fernández, I.; Valiño, F.; Elustondo Valencia, David; Santamaría Ulecia, Jesús Miguel; Ávila, A.; Bytnerowicz, A.; Bermejo, V.; Alonso, R.
Título de la revista: ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
ISSN: 0269-7491
Volumen: 243
Número: Part A
Páginas: 427 - 436
Fecha de publicación: 2018
Resumen:
In Mediterranean areas, dry deposition is a major component of the total atmospheric N input to natural habitats, particularly to forest ecosystems. An innovative approach, combining the empirical inferential method (EIM) for surface deposition of NO3- and NH4+ with stomatal uptake of NH3, HNO3 and NO2 derived from the DO3SE (Deposition of Ozone and Stomatal Exchange) model, was used to estimate total dry deposition of inorganic N air pollutants in four holm oak forests under Mediterranean conditions in Spain. The estimated total deposition varied among the sites and matched the geographical patterns previously found in model estimates: higher deposition was determined at the northern site (28.9 kg N ha-1 year-1) and at the northeastern sites (17.8 and 12.5 kg N ha-1 year-1) than at the central-Spain site (9.4 kg N ha-1 year-1). On average, the estimated dry deposition of atmospheric N represented 77% ± 2% of the total deposition of N, of which surface deposition of gaseous and particulate atmospheric N averaged 10.0 ± 2.9 kg N ha-1 year-1 for the four sites (58% of the total deposition), and stomatal deposition of N gases averaged 3.3 ± 0.8 kg N ha-1 year-1 (19% of the total deposition). Deposition of atmospheric inorganic N was dominated by the surface deposition of oxidized N in all the forests (means of 54% and 42% of the dry and total deposition, respectively).
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