NDLI: Impact of nitrogen deposition at the species level

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Author	Payne, Richard J. Dise, Nancy B. Stevens, Carly J. Gowing, David J. Cecilia, DuprÃ¨ Dorland, Edu Gaudnik, Cassandre Bleeker, Albert Diekmann, Martin Alard, Didier Roland, Bobbink Fowler, David Emmanuel, Corcket Mountford, J. Owen Vandvik, Vigdis Aarrestad, Per Arild Muller, Serge
Abstract	In Europe and, increasingly, the rest of the world, the key policy tool for the control of air pollution is the critical load, a level of pollution below which there are no known significant harmful effects on the environment. Critical loads are used to map sensitive regions and habitats, permit individual polluting activities, and frame international negotiations on transboundary air pollution. Despite their fundamental importance in environmental science and policy, there has been no systematic attempt to verify a critical load with field survey data. Here, we use a large dataset of European grasslands along a gradient of nitrogen (N) deposition to show statistically significant declines in the abundance of species from the lowest level of N deposition at which it is possible to identify a change. Approximately 60% of species change points occur at or below the range of the currently established critical load. If this result is found more widely, the underlying principle of no harm in pollution policy may need to be modified to one of informed decisions on how much harm is acceptable. Our results highlight the importance of protecting currently unpolluted areas from new pollution sources, because we cannot rule out ecological impacts from even relatively small increases in reactive N deposition.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1214299109
Ending Page	987
Page Count	4
Starting Page	984
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10916490
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	110
Language	English
Publisher	National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2013-01-15
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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