Sentences with phrase «between atmospheric deposition»

The monitoring of the snowpack and acid sensitive lakes is designed to assess the linkages between atmospheric deposition and impacts on water quality.

Not exact matches

The relationship between N2O fluxes and NO3 — concentrations is consistent with observations from small streams (Baulch et al. 2011) as well as observed positive relationships between concentrations of N2O and NO3 — in reservoirs (Beaulieu et al. 2015) and in lakes receiving atmospheric nitrogen deposition (McCrackin and Elser 2011).

The fossil record indicates that the past 100 years has seen species extinctions at 100 — 1,000 times the background rate (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), and among five drivers of global biodiversity loss between now and 2100 (climate change, land use change, atmospheric CO2 increases, nitrogen deposition, and species introductions), land use change — not climate change — is predicted to be the most important (Sala et al. 2000).

It means that targets have to be established as increments or narrowing the gap between the desired level of atmospheric deposition and actual deposition.

As atmospheric deposition grows more widespread, the difference between organic and nonorganic farming will become ever smaller.