dc.contributor |
Háskóli Íslands |
dc.contributor |
University of Iceland |
dc.contributor.author |
Belyazid, Salim |
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Phelan, Jennifer |
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Nihlgård, Bengt |
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Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik |
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Driscoll, Charles |
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Fernandez, Ivan |
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Aherne, Julian |
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Teeling-Adams, Leslie M. |
dc.contributor.author |
Bailey, Scott |
dc.contributor.author |
Arsenault, Matt |
dc.contributor.author |
Cleavitt, Natalie |
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Engstrom, Brett |
dc.contributor.author |
Dennis, Robin |
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Sperduto, Dan |
dc.contributor.author |
Werier, David |
dc.contributor.author |
Clark, Christopher |
dc.date.accessioned |
2020-04-29T15:29:28Z |
dc.date.available |
2020-04-29T15:29:28Z |
dc.date.issued |
2019-04-29 |
dc.identifier.citation |
Belyazid, S., Phelan, J., Nihlgård, B. et al. Assessing the Effects of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Soil Properties and Plant Diversity in Northeastern U.S. Hardwood Forests: Model Setup and Evaluation. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 230, 106 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-019-4145-6 |
dc.identifier.issn |
0049-6979 |
dc.identifier.issn |
1573-2932 (eISSN) |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1756 |
dc.description |
Publisher's version (útgefin grein) |
dc.description.abstract |
The integrated forest ecosystem model ForSAFE-Veg was used to simulate soil processes and understory vegetation composition at three—sugar maple, beech, yellow birch—hardwood forest sites in the Northeastern United States (one at Hubbard Brook, NH, and two at Bear Brook, ME). Input data were pooled from a variety of sources and proved coherent and consistent. While the biogeochemical component ForSAFE was used with limited calibration, the ground vegetation composition module Veg was calibrated to field relevés. Evaluating different simulated ecosystem indicators (soil solution chemistry, tree biomass, ground vegetation composition) showed that the model performed comparably well regardless of the site’s soil condition, climate, and amounts of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) deposition, with the exception of failing to capture tree biomass decline at Hubbard Brook. The model performed better when compared with annual observation than monthly data. The results support the assumption that the biogeochemical model ForSAFE can be used with limited calibration and provide reasonable confidence, while the vegetation community composition module Veg requires calibration if the individual plant species are of interest. The study welcomes recent advances in empirically explaining the responses of hardwood forests to nutrient imbalances and points to the need for more research. |
dc.description.sponsorship |
Funding for this study was provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (contract EP-C-11-036). Data for Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) were largely derived from the datasets of the cooperative Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, which is operated and maintained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (USFS). Data for Bear Brook Watershed in Maine (BBWM) were derived from datasets from the BBWM research program and publications. BBWM data have been collected since 1986 with support from the U.S. EPA, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Geological Survey, USFS, The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station, the Senator George Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, and the University of Maine. The project principal investigators are I.J. Fernandez, J.S. Kahl, S.A. Norton, L.E. Rustad, and G.B. Wiersma. The University of Maine has a long-term lease with International Paper Corporation, the landowner. The authors appreciate access to these data and would like to specifically acknowledge the extra efforts of Cheryl Spencer for providing EB soil samples and Farrah Fatemi for providing BBWM soil solution data. |
dc.format.extent |
106 |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.publisher |
Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Water, Air, & Soil Pollution;230(5) |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Bear Brook |
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Ecosystem modeling |
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ForSAFE-Veg |
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Hubbard Brook |
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Plant biodiversity |
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Vegetation modeling |
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Loftslagsbreytingar |
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Loftmengun |
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Jarðvegur |
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Líkön |
dc.title |
Assessing the Effects of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Soil Properties and Plant Diversity in Northeastern U.S. Hardwood Forests: Model Setup and Evaluation |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dcterms.license |
Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
dc.description.version |
Peer Reviewed |
dc.identifier.journal |
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.1007/s11270-019-4145-6 |
dc.contributor.department |
Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science (UI) |
dc.contributor.department |
Iðnaðarverkfræði-, vélaverkfræði- og tölvunarfræðideild (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.school |
Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.school |
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) |