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Widespread diminishing anthropogenic effects on calcium in freshwaters

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F19%3A00509978" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/19:00509978 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46838-w.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46838-w.pdf</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46838-w" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-019-46838-w</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Widespread diminishing anthropogenic effects on calcium in freshwaters

  • Original language description

    Calcium (Ca) is an essential element for almost all living organisms. Here, we examined global variation and controls of freshwater Ca concentrations, using 440 599 water samples from 43 184 inland water sites in 57 countries. We found that the global median Ca concentration was 4.0 mg L-1 with 20.7% of the water samples showing Ca concentrations <= 1.5 mg L-1, a threshold considered critical for the survival of many Ca-demanding organisms. Spatially, freshwater Ca concentrations were strongly and proportionally linked to carbonate alkalinity, with the highest Ca and carbonate alkalinity in waters with a pH around 8.0 and decreasing in concentrations towards lower pH. However, on a temporal scale, by analyzing decadal trends in > 200 water bodies since the 1980s, we observed a frequent decoupling between carbonate alkalinity and Ca concentrations, which we attributed mainly to the influence of anthropogenic acid deposition. As acid deposition has been ameliorated, in many freshwaters carbonate alkalinity concentrations have increased or remained constant, while Ca concentrations have rapidly declined towards or even below pre-industrial conditions as a consequence of recovery from anthropogenic acidification. Thus, a paradoxical outcome of the successful remediation of acid deposition is a globally widespread freshwater Ca concentration decline towards critically low levels for many aquatic organisms.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Scientific Reports

  • ISSN

    2045-2322

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    9

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    JUL

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    10

  • Pages from-to

    10450

  • UT code for WoS article

    000475845400054

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85069530746