Acidic precipitation and forest vegetation

Carl Olof Tamm; Ellis B. Cowling

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Acidic precipitation and forest vegetation

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Carl Olof Tamm, Ellis B. Cowling

Year:

1976

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Dochinger, L. S.; Seliga, T. A., eds. Proceedings of the first international symposium on acid precipitation and the forest ecosystem; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-23. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 845-855

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Abstract

Most plants can take up nutrients from the atmosphere as well as from the soil solution. This capacity is especially important in natural ecosystems such as forests and bogs where nutrients from other sources are scarce and where fertilization is not a normal management procedure. Trees develop very large canopies of leaves and branches that extend high into the air. Thus, trees offer a very large surface for deposition and potential assimilation of substances dispersed in the atmosphere.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the first international symposium on acid precipitation and the forest ecosystem

Citation

Tamm, Carl Olof; Cowling, Ellis B. 1976. Acidic precipitation and forest vegetation. In: Dochinger, L. S.; Seliga, T. A., eds. Proceedings of the first international symposium on acid precipitation and the forest ecosystem; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-23. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 845-855