Mercury cycling during acid rain recovery at the forested Lesní potok catchment, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00025798%3A_____%2F21%3A00000142" target="_blank" >RIV/00025798:_____/21:00000142 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985831:_____/21:00543266

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14255" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14255</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14255" target="_blank" >10.1002/hyp.14255</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mercury cycling during acid rain recovery at the forested Lesní potok catchment, Czech Republic

Original language description

From 2011 to 2019, mercury (Hg) stores and fluxes were studied in the small forested catchment Lesní potok (LES) in the central Czech Republic using the watershed mass balance approach together with internal measurements. Mean input fluxes of Hg via open bulk deposition, beech throughfall and spruce throughfall during the periodwere 2.9, 3.9 and 7.6 microgram m−2 year−1, respectively. These values were considerably lower than corresponding deposition Hg fluxes reported in the early years of the 21st century from catchments in Germany. Current bulk precipitation inputs at unimpacted Czech mountainous sites were lower than those in Germany. The largest Hg inputs to the catchment were via litterfall, averaging 22.6 and 17.8 microgram m−2 year−1 for beech and spruce stands. The average Hg input, based on the sum of mean litterfall and throughfall deposition, was 23.0 microgram m−2 year−1, compared to the estimated Hg output in runoff of 0.5 microgram m−2 year−1, which is low compared to other reported values. Thus, only ~2percent of Hg input is exported in stream runoff. Stream water Hg was only weakly related to dissolved organic carbon (DOC) but both concentrations were positively correlated with water temperature. The estimated total soil Hg pool averaged 47.5 mg m−2, only 4percent of which was in the O-horizon. Thus Hg in the O-horizon pool represents 72 years of deposition at the current input flux and 3800 years of export at the current runoff flux. Age-dating by 14C suggested that organic soil contains Hg from recent deposition, while mineral soil at 40–80 cm depth contained 4400-year old carbon, suggesting the soil had accumulated atmospheric Hg inputs through millennia to reach the highest soil Hg pool of the soil profile. These findings suggest that industrial era intensification of the Hg cycle is superimposed on a slower-paced Hg cycle during most of the Holocene.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-14292S" target="_blank" >GA20-14292S: Mercury - overlooked threat in the Czech ecosystems responding to global change</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hydrological Processes

ISSN

0885-6087

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6 : e14255

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

nestránkováno

UT code for WoS article

000667549500007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85111130747