Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments: Nitrogen, Acidity and Metals in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems
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Book Overview
1. The history and current state of critical loads and dynamic modelling assessments
Part I Assessment of indicators for air pollutant impacts
2. Geochemical indicators for use in the computation of critical loads and dynamic risk assessments
3. Plant species diversity indicators for use in the computation of critical loads and dynamic risk assessments
Part II Empirical and model based critical loads and target loads
4. Effects and empirical critical loads of nitrogen for Europe
5. Effects and empirical critical loads of nitrogen for ecoregions of the United States
6. Mass balance models to derive critical loads of nitrogen and acidity for terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
7. Mass balance approaches to assess critical loads and target loads of metals for terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
Part III Dynamic modeling for the assessment of air pollution impacts at site scale
8. Dynamic geochemical models to assess deposition impacts and target loads of acidity for soils and surface waters
9. Dynamic geochemical models to assess deposition impacts of metals for soils and surface waters
10. Use of combined biogeochemical model approaches and empirical data to assess critical loads of nitrogen
11. Field survey based models for exploring nitrogen and acidity effects on plant species diversity and assessing long-term critical loads
12. Use of an integrated soil-vegetation model to assess impacts of atmospheric deposition and climate change on plant species diversity
13. Evaluation of plant-responses to atmospheric nitrogen deposition in France using integrated soil-vegetation models
14. Use of an empirical model approach for modelling trends of ecological sustainability
Part IV Critical loads and dynamic model applications on a regional scale
15. Assessment of critical loads of sulphur and nitrogen and their exceedances for terrestrial ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere
16. Critical load assessments for sulphur and nitrogen for soils and surface waters in China
17. Assessment of critical loads of acidity and their exceedances for European lakes
18. National-scale dynamic model applications for Nordic lake catchments
19. Critical load assessments and dynamic model applications for lakes in North America
20. Critical loads and critical limits of cadmium, copper, lead and zinc and their exceedances for terrestrial ecosystems in the United Kingdom
21. Critical loads of cadmium, lead and mercury and their exceedances in Europe
22. Derivation of critical loads of nitrogen for habitat types and their exceedances in the Netherlands
23. Assessing the impacts of nitrogen deposition on plant species richness in Europe
Part V Integrated assessment policy applications and synthesis
24. Integrated assessment of impacts of atmospheric deposition and climate change on forest ecosystem services in Europe
25. Effects-based integrated assessment modelling for the support of European air pollution abatement policies
26. Synthesis
Appendix: Direct impacts on ecosystems and human health induced by exposure to ambient concentrations of air pollutants and related critical levels
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