NDLI: The Role of Nitrogen Deposition in Widespread Plant Community Change Across Semi-natural Habitats

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Author	Field, Chris D. Dise, Nancy B. Payne, Richard J. Britton, Andrea J. Emmett, Bridget A. Helliwell, Rachel C. Hughes, Steve Jones, Laurence Lees, Steven Leake, Jonathan R. Leith, Ian D. Phoenix, Gareth K. Power, Sally A. Sheppard, Lucy J. Southon, Georgina E. Stevens, Carly J. Caporn, Simon J. M.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Experimental studies have shown that deposition of reactive nitrogen is an important driver of plant community change, however, most of these experiments are of short duration with unrealistic treatments, and conducted in regions with elevated ambient deposition. Studies of spatial gradients of pollution can complement experimental data and indicate whether the potential impacts demonstrated by experiments are actually occurring in the ‘real world’. However, targeted surveys exist for only a very few habitats and are not readily comparable. In a coordinated campaign, we determined the species richness and plant community composition of five widespread, semi-natural habitats across Great Britain in sites stratified along gradients of climate and pollution, and related these ecological parameters to major drivers of biodiversity, including climate, pollution deposition, and local edaphic factors. In every habitat, we found reduced species richness and changed species composition associated with higher nitrogen deposition, with remarkable consistency in relative species loss across ecosystem types. Whereas the diversity of mosses, lichens, forbs, and graminoids declines with N deposition in different habitats, the cover of graminoids generally increases. Considered alongside previous experimental studies and survey work, our results provide a compelling argument that nitrogen deposition is a widespread and pervasive threat to terrestrial ecosystems.
Starting Page	864
Ending Page	877
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14329840
Journal	Ecosystems
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	14350629
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-04-29
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	nitrogen sulphur climate pollution impacts Ecology Plant Sciences Zoology Environmental Management Geoecology/Natural Processes Hydrology/Water Resources
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Environmental Chemistry Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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