Sensitivity of soil acidification model to deposition and forest growth

We report an investigation concerning the impacts of acid deposition and forest growth scenarios on simulated soil effective base saturation for a forested catchment in eastern Finland. These forests have not been managed during the last 150 yr and the area receives low levels of acidifying deposition. The fluxes of sulphur, nitrogen and base cations were assessed with models simulating historic and future deposition, stand uptake and leaching. We tested the effects of calibrating the modelled deposition time series to high and low estimates of current levels of deposition. The highest future soil base saturation was predicted when using the year with the lowest observed sulphur and nitrogen deposition (1993) as representative of the present deposition. The lowest historical and future soil base saturation resulted for using the year with the highest observed deposition of sulphur and nitrogen (1988). All scenarios concerning nutrient uptake, emission reduction levels and timing of the reductions resulted in simulated future soil base saturation values located between those predicted with the high and low observed present deposition. The standard deviation in the soil base saturation introduced by varying the present forest biomass and growth was smaller than that produced by varying the present deposition values.

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