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Forest Nutrient Cycling: Toxic Ions

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Air Pollution and Forests

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Nutrients must move into, within, and out of forest ecosystems in appropriate amounts, at appropriate rates, and along established pathways for normal forest growth to occur. The two major sources of nutrients for temperate forest ecosystems are (a) meteorologic input of dissolved, particulate, and gaseous chemicals from outside the ecosystem; and (b) release by weathering of nutrients from primary and secondary minerals stored within the ecosystem (Bormann and Likens, 1979). Healthy forest ecosystems conserve these nutrients and continually recycle them through the system via an elaborate litterfall-decomposition-uptake intrasystem cycle.

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Smith, W.H. (1990). Forest Nutrient Cycling: Toxic Ions. In: Air Pollution and Forests. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3296-4_9

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