Sources of acidity in forest-floor percolate from a maple-birch ecosystem |
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| Authors: | P W Hazlett N W Foster |
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| Institution: | 1. Forestry Canada, Ontario Region, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, P.O. Box 490, P6A-5M7, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
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| Abstract: | Ion concentrations in water collected within a forest of sugar maple and yellow birch at the Turkey Lakes Watershed near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario were examined from 1982 to 1984 to determine sources of acidity and the extent of cation leaching from forest floor horizons. Volume-weighted concentrations and ion fluxes in throughfall and forest-floor percolate during the growing and dormant seasons were calculated. Hydrogen ion content of the forest-floor percolate decreased in relation to that of throughfall in the dormant season and increased in the growing season. Hydrogen ion deposition in throughfall could account for 100% of the flux of H+ through the forest floor in the dormant period, and 40% of the flux during the growing season. In forest-floor percolate, Ca2+ concentrations were positively correlated with those of SO4 2-, NO3 - and organic anions during both dormant and growing seasons. Sources of NO3 - and organic anions within the ecosystem and major external inputs of NO3 - and SO4 2- were critical factors that influenced cation mobility in the forest floor. |
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