Acid deposition ecological impacts

Increased interest in ecological issues such as global climate change, habitat loss, acid deposition, reduced biological diversity, and the ecological impacts of pesticides and toxic chemicals prompts this Framework Report. This report describes basic elements, or a framework, for evaluating scientific... 

Acid in the Environment Lessons Learned and Future Prospects provides an overview of the important science and policy issues pertaining to acid deposition. Acid in the Environment uses an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on important ecological impacts of acid deposition, the transboundary nature of the pollutants that cause acid rain, and domestic and international policies designed to reduce the emission of these pollutants. By emphasizing issues such as the scientific lessons learned from acid dep-... 

Acid deposition is an on-going, long-term environmental problem with a greater environmental impact than previously projected. Since many ecosystems are now more sensitive to the input of additional acids, their recovery from the adverse affects of acid rain will most likely be delayed. In Acid in the Environment, vjq provide the perspectives of various authors with respect to the lessons learned and future prospects associated with the issue of acid deposition. We use an interdisciplinary approach that combines a discussion of important ecological issues associated with acid deposition with an analysis of domestic and international policies to control the emission of pollutants that cause acid rain. In this context. Acid in the Environ-... 

Figure ISJ. A conceptual illustration of the ecological impacts of acid deposition to protected tireas in the Adirondacks, Cotiservation organizations and the general public have inve.sted millions of dollars for over a ceatur) to conserve these areas. (Coiirte,sy of the Adirondack Nature Conseri tiucy and Adirondack Land Trust -photograph by Sill Brown eoncepteal diagi-am by Jerry Jenkins)...

J. Hanssen, J. Rambaek, J. Semb E. Steinnes, Atmospheric Deposition of Trace Elements in Norway International Conference on Ecological Impact of Acid Precipitation, Sandefjord, 1980. 

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