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Lysimeter experiments were used to determine atmospheric input to grassland canopies. The combined effect of interception deposition + mineral weathering + mineralization was calculated from input/output budgets. Four types of lysimeters were used, either filled with very pure quartz sand or chalk grassland soil, and either without vegetation or planted with Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) Beauv., Combination of budgets for these four types of lysimeters yielded separate estimates of interception deposition and mineral weathering + mineralization. Ratios between total deposition and bulk deposition were 1.74 and 1.93 for N and S, respectively. Sources and sinks of H+ for lysimeters with chalk grassland soil and planted with Brachypodium (abbrev. CP-lysimeters) were about 10 times larger than for lysimeters without plants and filled with quartz sand. The contribution of atmospheric input to total H+-sources was 80% for bare lysimeters filled with quartz sand, and only 12% for CP-lysimeters. Bulk deposition and total atmospheric deposition of N was 1.25 and 2.18 kmol ha−1 yr−1, respectively, whereas N mineralization of chalk grassland soil yielded 1.62 kmol ha−1 yr−1, ‘Acid rain’ has only a minor influence on H+-transformations within a chalk grassland ecosystem, but N cycling is seriously affected by atmospheric input.
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Van Dam, D., Heil, G.W., Bobbink, R. et al. Atmospheric deposition to grassland canopies: Lysimeter budgets discriminating between interception deposition, mineral weathering and mineralization. Water Air Soil Pollut 53, 83–101 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154993
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