Biogeochemical Investigations at Watershed, Landscape, and Regional Scales: Refereed papers from BIOGEOMON, The Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior; Co-Sponsored by Villanova University and the Czech Geological Survey; held at / Edition 1

by R. Kelman Wieder, Martin Novïk, Jirï Cernï

Overview

This Special Issue of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution offers original contributions from BIOGEOMON, The Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior, which was held on the campus ofVillanova University from June 21-25, 1997. Previous meetings were held in Prague in 1987 and again in 1993. The BIOGEOMON series was initiated in 1987 when a group of researchers from the Czech Geological Survey organized a conference called GEOMON, Geochemical Monitoring in Representative Basins. GEOMON was fairly narrowly focused on monitoring of element pools and fluxes on a small watershed scale. As signalled by the change in name to BIOGEOMON, the second conference explicitly recognized that assessment of anthropogenic effects on ecosystem processes requires a combination of geochemical monitoring with other approaches, including watershed-level manipulations, use of radioactive and stable isotopic tracers, and both empirical and process modeling. The 1997 BIOGEOMON conference was the largest, with over 240 participants from 28 countries on five continents in attendance, and broadest in scope. The conference featured a plenary speaker, six keynote speakers, 35 invited speakers, over 60 oral contributed presentations, and over 75 poster presentations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792351672
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	07/31/1998
Edition description:	Reprinted from WATER, AIR, AND SOIL POLLUTION, 105:1-2, 1998
Pages:	506
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Integrated Assessment of Soil Chemical Status. 1. Integration of Existing Models and Derivation of a Regional Database for Switzerland.- Integrated Assessment of Soil Chemical Status. 2. Application of a Regionalized Model to 622 Forested Sites in Switzerland.- MAGIC, SAFE and SMART Model Applications at Integrated Monitoring Sites: Effects of Emission Reduction Scenarios.- Predicting Freshwater Critical Loads of Acidification at the Catchment Scale: An Empirical Model.- Evidence of Current Soil Acidification in Spruce Stands in the Vosges Mountains, North-eastern France.- A Comparison of Soil Sensitivity to Acidification Based on Laboratory-determined Short-term Acid Buffering Capacity and the Skokloster Classification.- Proton Budgets of Forest Ecosystems on Volcanogenous Regosols in Hokkaido, Northern Japan.- GIS Analysis of Surface Water Chemistry Susceptibility and Response to Industrial Air Pollution in The Kola Peninsula, Northern Russia.- Effects of Atmospheric Sea-Salt Deposition on Soils and Freshwaters in Northeast Scotland.- Acidification of Freshwater Wetlands: Combined Effects of Non-airborne Sulfur Pollution and Desiccation.- Trace Gas Emissions from a North Wales Fen — Role of Hydrochemistry and Soil Enzyme Activity.- Estimating Rainy Season Nitrous Oxide and Methane Fluxes Across Forest and Pasture Landscapes in Costa Rica.- GIS-based Extrapolation of Land Use-Related Nitrous Oxide Flux in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Ricas.- Synthesis of Nitrogen Pools and Fluxes from European Forest Ecosystems.- The Behavior of Nitrogen Isotopes in Acidified Forest Soils in The Czech Republic.- Canopy and Soil Retention of Nitrogen Deposition in a Mixed Boreal Forest in Eastern Finland.- Effects of Chronic Nitrogen Amendments on Production of Dissolved Organic Carbonand Nitrogen in Forest Soils.- Effect of Chronic Nitrogen Additions on Soil Nitrogen Fractions in Red Spruce Stands.- An Empirical Approach for Assessing the Relationship Between Nitrogen Deposition and Nitrate Leaching From Upland Catchments in the United Kingdom Using Runoff Chemistry.- The Prediction of Nitrate Leaching with the First-order Acidity Balance (FAB) Model for Upland Catchment in Great Britain.- Nitrogen and Sulfate Export from High Elevation Catchments of the Sierra Nevada, California.- Links Between Runoff Generation, Climate and Nitrate-N Leaching from Forested Catchments.- Leaching of Nutrients, Organic Carbon and Iron from Finnish Forestry Land.- Precipitation Change and Soil Leaching; Field Results and Simulations from Walker Branch Watershed, Tennessee.- Tracing Hydrologic Pathways Using Chloride at the Panola Mountain Research Watershed, Georgia, USA.- A Comparison of Methods for Deriving Solute Flux Rates Using Long-Term Data from Streams in the Mirror Lake Watershed.- Effect of Altitude and Tree Species on—34 of Deposited Sulfur (Jezn?í Catchment, Czech Republic.- Organic Sulfur and the Retention of Nutrient Cations in Forest Surface Soils.- Recovery of Surface Waters in the Northeastern U.S. from Decreases in Atmospheric Deposition of Sulfur.- Trends in Sulrufr Emission-Induced Effects in Northern Europe.- Recent Temporal Patterns in the Chemistry of Small, Acid-sensitive Lakes in Central Ontario, Canada.- Trends in Sulfate, Base Cations and H+ Concentrations in Bulk Precipitation and Throughfall at Integrated Monitoring Sites in Finland 1989–1995.- Changes in Mass Element Fluxes and Their Importance for Critical Loads: Geomon Network, Czech Republic.- The Relationship Between Stream Chemistry and Watershed Land Cover Data in theMid-Atlantic Region, U.S..- Hydrology and Chemistry of the Choptank River Basin.- Fluvial Hydrogeochemistry in a Sub-tropical Coastal Watershed in Brazil.- Beryllium Chemistry in the Lysina Catchment, Czech Republic.- Application of the Regional Mercury Cycling Model (RMCM) to Predict the Fate and Remediation of Mercury in Onondaga Lake, New York.- Factors Controlling Mercury Transport in an Upland Forested Catchment.- Historical Variations in Lead Fluxes in the Pyrenees (Northeast Spain) from a Dated Lake Sediment Core.- Critical Loads of Trace Metals in Soils: A Method of Calculation.- Quantifying Fine-scale Variability in Pollutant Deposition in Complex Terrain Suing 210Pb Inventories in Soil.- Flux of Benzo(a)pyrene to the Ground Surface and its Distribution in the Ecosystem.- Airborne Contamination of Immature Soil (LUsatian Mining District) by Lignite-derived Materials: its Detection and Contribution to the Soil Organic Matter Budget.- Effects of Exotic Plant Species on Soil Properties in Hardwood Forests of New Jersey.- List of Reviewers.

Editorial Reviews

‘However, I recommend scientists to encourage their libraries to have it on their selves. It is an excellent source of research results in environmental science.'
European Journal of Soil Science, 50 (1999)

From the Publisher

Presents 45 articles from the June 1997 International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior, where the scientists' philosophy was to both develop a comprehensive understanding of ecosystem function in the past and present and to apply such understanding toward minimizing future environmental damage. Includes chapters representing the nine thematic sessions of the conference: acidification and its reversal; nitrogen cycling, limitation, and saturation in terrestrial ecosystems; natural abundance isotopes in biogeochemistry; nutrient cycling; interfacing biogeochemistry with geographic information systems; watershed monitoring, manipulation, and modeling; and carbon gas flux across the land/atmosphere boundary. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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