A novel method to estimate the response of habitat types to nitrogen deposition

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F24%3A00139602" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/24:00139602 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974912400558X" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974912400558X</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123844" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123844</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A novel method to estimate the response of habitat types to nitrogen deposition

Original language description

Increasing nitrogen depositions adversely affect European landscapes, including habitats within the Natura2000 network. Critical loads for nitrogen deposition have been established to quantify the loss of habitat quality. When the nitrogen deposition rises above a habitat-specific critical load, the quality of the focal habitat is expected to be negatively influenced. Here, we investigate how the quality of habitat types is affected beyond the critical load. We calculated response curves for 60 terrestrial habitat types in the Netherlands to the estimated nitrogen deposition (EMEP-data). The curves for habitat types are based on the occurrence of their characteristic plant species in North-Western Europe (plot data from the European Vegetation Archive). The estimated response curves were corrected for soil type, mean annual temperature and annual precipitation. Evaluation was carried out by expert judgement, and by comparison with gradient deposition field studies. For 39 habitats the response to nitrogen deposition was judged to be reliable by five experts, while out of the 41 habitat types for which field studies were available, 25 showed a good agreement. Some of the curves showed a steep decline in quality and some a more gradual decline with increasing nitrogen deposition. We compared the response curves with both the empirical and modelled critical loads. For 41 curves, we found a decline already starting below the critical load.

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/GX19-28491X" target="_blank" >GX19-28491X: Centre for European Vegetation Syntheses (CEVS)</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Environmental Pollution

ISSN

0269-7491

e-ISSN

1873-6424

Volume of the periodical

349

Issue of the periodical within the volume

May

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

123844

UT code for WoS article

001234871500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85190852116