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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 155, Issue 2, Pages 237-246Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.11.031
Keywords
epiphytic bryophytes; N deposition; rainfall; stemflow; tissue N concentration
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- UK Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) [NER/T/2000/00037]
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh010023] Funding Source: researchfish
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The spatial relationship between the concentration and deposition of the major ions in precipitation and stemflow and their influence on the tissue nitrogen concentration of three epiphytic bryophytes on Quercus petraea (Matt) Liebl. and Q. robur L. was investigated at seven UK Atlantic oak woodland sites with a range of total N deposition of 55-250 mmol m(-2). The main driver of change in tissue N concentrations of three epiphytic bryophytes (Isothecium myosuroides Brid. (Eurhynchium myosuroides (Brid.) Schp.), Dicranum scoparium Hewd. and Thuidium tamariscinum (Hewd.) Schimp.) was total N deposition in stemflow, dominated by ammonium deposition. The three epiphytic species also showed strong relationships between tissue N concentration and total N deposition in rainfall but a poor correlation with total N ion concentration in rainfall. This study shows that epiphytic bryophytes utilise stemflow N and thus increase their risk from inputs of total N deposition compared to terricolous species at the same site. Crown Copyright (c) 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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