The Effects of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity

Autores

Baron, J.S., Barber, M., Adams, M., Agboola, J.I., Allen, E.B., Bealey, W.J., Bobbink, R., Bobrovsky, M.V., Bowman, W.D., Branquinho, C., Bustamente, M.C., Clark, C.M., Cocking, E.C., Cruz, C., Davidson, E., Denmead, O.T., Dias, T., Dise, N.B., Feest, A., Galloway, J.N., Geiser, L.H., Gilliam, F.S., Harrison, I.J., Khanina, L.G., Lu, X., Manrique, E., Hueso, R.O., Ometto, J.P.H.B., Payne, R., Scheuschner, T., Sheppard, L.J., Simpson, G.L., Singh, Y.V., Stevens, C.J., Strachan, I., Sverdrup, H., Tokuchi, N., Dobben, H.V. and Woodin, S.

Publicado en

In: Sutton M., Mason K., Sheppard L., Sverdrup H., Haeuber R., Hicks W. (eds) Nitrogen Deposition, Critical Loads and Biodiversity. Springer, Dordrecht

Año de publicación

2014

Afiliaciones

  1. US Geological Survey, Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
  2. RTI InternationalWashington, DC, USA
  3. Faculty of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources (FAFNR), McMillan Building, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  4. Department of Fisheries, Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria
  5. Department of Botany and Plant Sciences and Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, USA
  6. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, UK
  7. B-WARE Research Centre, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  8. Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
  9. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mountain Research Station/INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
  10. Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
  11. Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília-DF, Brazil
  12. Global Change Research Program/Environmental Protection Agency, Crystal City, USA
  13. Centre for Crop Nitrogen Fixation, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  14. Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
  15. The Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, USA
  16. CSIRO Land and WaterCanberra, Australia
  17. School of Land and EnvironmentThe University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  18. Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
  19. Water and Environmental Management Research Centre, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  20. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
  21. Pacific Northwest Region Air Resource Management, US Forest Service, Corvallis, USA
  22. Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, USA
  23. Conservation International, Arlington, USA
  24. Institute of Mathematical Problems in Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
  25. Dinghushan Forest Ecosystem Research Station, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhaoqing, China
  26. Instituto de Recursos Naturales, Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
  27. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. Spain
  28. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (CCST/INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil
  29. Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
  30. OEKO-DATA, National Critical Load Focal Center, Strausberg, Germany
  31. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, UK
  32. Geography DepartmentEnvironmental Change Research Centre, University College London, London, UK
  33. Indian Agricultural Research Institute, CCUBGA, IARI, New Delhi, India
  34. Department of Life ScienceThe Open University, Walton Hall, UK
  35. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
  36. Scottish Natural Heritage, Great Glen House, Inverness, USA
  37. Department of Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
  38. Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Yoshida North Campus), Kyoto, Japan
  39. AlterraWageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  40. IBESUniversity of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Programa

CRN3

Proyecto

CRN3035

Keywords

Biodiversity, Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems, Nitrogen effects, Policy

DOI

https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7939-6_49
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Resumen

This chapter reports the findings of a Working Group on how atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition affects both terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. Regional and global scale impacts on biodiversity are addressed, together with potential indicators. Key conclusions are that: the rates of loss in biodiversity are greatest at the lowest and initial stages of N deposition increase changes in species compositions are related to the relative amounts of N, carbon (C) and phosphorus (P) in the plant soil system enhanced N inputs have implications for C cycling N deposition is known to be having adverse effects on European and North American vegetation composition very little is known about tropical ecosystem responses, while tropical ecosystems are major biodiversity hotspots and are increasingly recipients of very high N deposition rates N deposition alters forest fungi and mycorrhyzal relations with plants the rapid response of forest fungi and arthropods makes them good indicators of change predictive tools (models) that address ecosystem scale processes are necessary to address complex drivers and responses, including the integration of N deposition, climate change and land use effects criteria can be identified for projecting sensitivity of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to N deposition. Future research and policy-relevant recommendations are identified.