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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/17249| Appears in Collections: | Biological and Environmental Sciences Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Impacts of atmospheric pollution on the plant communities of British acid grasslands |
| Author(s): | Payne, Richard Stevens, Carly J Dise, Nancy B Gowing, David J Pilkington, Michael G Phoenix, Gareth K Emmett, Bridget A Ashmore, Michael R |
| Contact Email: | r.j.payne@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | Ozone Nitrogen deposition Base cation deposition Ordination Critical loads Biodiversity |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2011 |
| Date Deposited: | 30-Oct-2013 |
| Citation: | Payne R, Stevens CJ, Dise NB, Gowing DJ, Pilkington MG, Phoenix GK, Emmett BA & Ashmore MR (2011) Impacts of atmospheric pollution on the plant communities of British acid grasslands. Environmental Pollution, 159 (10), pp. 2602-2608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2011.06.009 |
| Abstract: | Air pollutants are recognised as important agents of ecosystem change but few studies consider the effects of multiple pollutants and their interactions. Here we use ordination, constrained cluster analysis and indicator value analyses to identify potential environmental controls on species composition, ecological groupings and indicator species in a gradient study of UK acid grasslands. The community composition of these grasslands is related to climate, grazing, ozone exposure and nitrogen deposition, with evidence for an interaction between the ecological impacts of base cation and nitrogen deposition. Ozone is a key agent in species compositional change but is not associated with a reduction in species richness or diversity indices, showing the subtly different drivers on these two aspects of ecosystem degradation. Our results demonstrate the effects of multiple interacting pollutants, which may collectively have a greater impact than any individual agent. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.06.009 |
| Rights: | Published in Environmental Pollution by Elsevier; Elsevier believes that individual authors should be able to distribute their accepted author manuscripts for their personal voluntary needs and interests, e.g. posting to their websites or their institution’s repository, e-mailing to colleagues. The Elsevier Policy is as follows: Authors retain the right to use the accepted author manuscript for personal use, internal institutional use and for permitted scholarly posting provided that these are not for purposes of commercial use or systematic distribution. An "accepted author manuscript" is the author’s version of the manuscript of an article that has been accepted for publication and which may include any author-incorporated changes suggested through the processes of submission processing, peer review, and editor-author communications. |
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