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Evaluation of the Impacts of Marine Salts and Asian Dust on the Forested Yakushima Island Ecosystem, a World Natural Heritage Site in Japan |
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| Authors: | Takanori Nakano Yoriko Yokoo Masao Okumura Seo-Ryong Jean Kenichi Satake |
| Institution: | 1. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, 457-4 Kamigamo Motoyama, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8047, Japan 2. Department of Environmental Systems Science, Doshisha University, 1-3 Tataratuya, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, 610-0331, Japan 3. Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, 1310 Omiya, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 212-8554, Japan 4. Department of Geoscience, Chonbuk National University, 664-1, 567-756, Jeonju, Jeollabukdo, South Korea 5. Faculty of Geo-environmental Science, Rissho University, 1700 echi, Kumagaya, Saitama, 360-0194, Japan |
| Abstract: | To elucidate the influence of airborne materials on the ecosystem of Japan??s Yakushima Island, we determined the elemental compositions and Sr and Nd isotope ratios in streamwater, soils, vegetation, and rocks. Streamwater had high Na and Cl contents, low Ca and HCO3 contents, and Na/Cl and Mg/Cl ratios close to those of seawater, but it had low pH (5.4 to 7.1), a higher Ca/Cl ratio than seawater, and distinct 87Sr/86Sr ratios that depended on the bedrock type. The proportions of rain-derived cations in streamwater, estimated by assuming that Cl was derived from sea salt aerosols, averaged 81?% for Na, 83?% for Mg, 36?% for K, 32?% for Ca, and 33?% for Sr. The Sr value was comparable to the 28?% estimated by comparing Sr isotope ratios between rain and granite bedrock. The soils are depleted in Ca, Na, P, and Sr compared with the parent materials. At Yotsuse in the northwestern side, plants and the soil pool have 87Sr/86Sr ratios similar to that of rainwater with a high sea salt component. In contrast, the Sr and Nd isotope ratios of soil minerals in the A and B horizons approach those of silicate minerals in northern China??s loess soils. The soil Ca and P depletion results largely from chemical weathering of plagioclase and of small amounts of apatite and calcite in granitic rocks. This suggests that Yakushima??s ecosystem is affected by large amounts of acidic precipitation with a high sea salt component, which leaches Ca and its proxy (Sr) from bedrock into streams, and by Asian dust-derived apatite, which is an important source of P in base cation-depleted soils. |
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