Consequences of long-term severe industrial pollution for aboveground carbon and nitrogen pools in northern taiga forests at local and regional scales

Manninen, Sirkku; Zverev, Vitali; Bergman, I. E.; Kozlov, Mikhail V.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.097

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“…Yet, the differences between coarse waste, fine waste, and lime were not statistically significant (p > 0.05) with respect to the plant height. We infer that fine (< 0.08 mm) and thermo-activated vermiculitelizardite wastes were the best amendments in reducing foliar Ni concentrations and improving plant growth probably because of their high metal sorptive properties (Kremenetskaya et al, 2012(Kremenetskaya et al, , 2019a(Kremenetskaya et al, , 2019b. The difference between the treatments in terms of plant growth cannot be attributed to soil pH since all the treatments with vermiculite-lizardite wastes had similar pH values (Table 1).…”

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Vermiculite-Lizardite Industrial Wastes Promote Plant Growth in a Peat Soil Affected by a Cu/Ni Smelter: a Case Study at the Kola Peninsula, Russia

Tarasova

Drogobuzhskaya

Tapia-Pizarro

et al. 2020

J Soil Sci Plant Nutr

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Some industrial barren areas are extreme habitats created by the deposition of airborne pollutants from non-ferrous smelters. One of such barrens exists in the vicinities of the Cu/Ni smelter, located at the Kola Peninsula, Murmansk region, Russia. This study aimed at evaluating in laboratory conditions the efficiency of various vermiculite-lizardite wastes (industrial wastes of local origin) as soil amendments for plant growth promotion. Peat topsoil (0-20 cm) was collected in the vicinity of the Cu/Ni smelter. Total soil concentrations were 1612, 1481, and 63 mg kg −1 for Ni, Cu, and Co, respectively, and soil pH was 4.3. Soils were amended with lime waste and different types of vermiculite-lizardite wastes (coarse, fine, and thermo-activated at 700°C), leaving one soil untreated. Weekly wetting-drying cycles, performed during 1 month, allowed amendments to react in the soil. All soils were cultivated with Lolium perenne L. for 21 days under controlled conditions. The plant growth was not influenced by high soil Cu concentration, while Ni and Co caused phytotoxicity. A mix of 10% (w/w) of different vermiculite-lizardite wastes with 10% (w/w) of lime improved the plant growth. Thermo-activated waste showed the best results for promoting plant growth and reducing foliar Ni concentrations from 1022 to 88-117 mg kg −1. However, the plants presented Ni phytotoxicity even in the amended soils and this requires further studies to find a way to reduce it.

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“…In the past, this Cu/Ni smelter was an important source of industrial pollution (Zverev, 2009;Kashulina, 2017). In the early 1990s, forest death was observed in an area of about 400-500 km 2 and the visible injuries on conifers were detected up to 50-60 km away from the Cu/Ni smelter (Kozlov et al, 2009;Manninen et al, 2015).…”

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Vermiculite-Lizardite Industrial Wastes Promote Plant Growth in a Peat Soil Affected by a Cu/Ni Smelter: a Case Study at the Kola Peninsula, Russia

Tarasova

Drogobuzhskaya

Tapia-Pizarro

et al. 2020

J Soil Sci Plant Nutr

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“…However, this pattern is unlikely to be attributable to strong constitutive defences specific to juvenile birches, because the SLA was lower and the performance of leafmining Eriocrania larvae was better on small saplings than on mature trees. The latter result may be explained by the greater nitrogen content in leaves of birch saplings than in leaves of mature trees (Manninen, Zverev, Bergman, & Kozlov, ; Weih & Karlsson, ).…”

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“…The latter result may be explained by the greater nitrogen content in leaves of birch saplings than in leaves of mature trees (Manninen, Zverev, Bergman, & Kozlov, 2015;Weih & Karlsson, 1999).…”

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Ontogenetic changes in insect herbivory in birch (Betula pubesecens): The importance of plant apparency

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Several theories aim at predicting changes in the interactions between plants and herbivores over the lifetime of a plant. Hypotheses based on ontogenetic changes in resource allocation to plant defence and in plant apparency lead to partly opposing predictions regarding the differences in levels of herbivory between juvenile and mature plant individuals. We tested these predictions by measuring background foliar losses to insects in saplings and mature trees of downy birch (Betula pubescens) in ten sites along a latitudinal gradient from 60° to 69°N in boreal forests of Northern Europe. The percentage of consumed leaf area increased, and the variation in the levels of herbivory among plant individuals decreased, for tree sizes ranging from small saplings (2–12 cm tall) to large saplings (13–80 cm tall) and then to mature trees (3–18 m tall). Small saplings had higher foliar quality for insects, as indicated by better performance of leafmining larvae of Eriocrania semipurpurella and by greater specific leaf area, compared with large saplings and mature trees. The average percentage of leaf area consumed from a damaged leaf, which reflects the inducibility of local defence responses to insect damage, did not vary among the birch size classes. The foliar losses to insects decreased nearly fivefold with an increase in latitude from 60° to 69°N, but the relative differences in these losses among the birch size classes were independent of latitude. Our findings fit well with the predictions based on a plant apparency hypothesis, but do not support predictions based on ontogenetic changes in resource allocation to plant antiherbivore defences. We conclude that the generally overlooked effects of apparency on plant damage by insects can explain, at least in some cases, the frequently observed lack of correspondence between the levels of plant defences and herbivory. A http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12920/suppinfo is available for this article.

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“…The sum of carbon density of each soil layer is the total carbon density of the forestland soil. The soil carbon storage can be calculated by the soil carbon density multiplying standard sample area [3][4][5] .…”

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Vegetation and Soil Carbon Storage of Some Typical Subtropical Evergreen Broad-leaved Forest in Dagang Mountain

Zhang¹,

Che²,

Wang³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 7th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (ICEESD 2018)

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With the rapid development of human society and economy, the greenhouse effect caused by greenhouse gases had become one of the three major environmental problems in the world. Forest ecosystems mitigate the greenhouse effect by absorbing CO 2 through the photosynthesis of green plants. Based on field investigation of three subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests including Schima superba forest, Cyclobalanopsis glauca forest, and Castanopsis sclerophylla forest in Dagang Mountain Nature Reserve of Jiangxi Province, the vegetation and soil carbon storage and carbon density were calculated. The results showed that the organic carbon content of three subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest species in the Dagang Mountain Nature Reserve was very close, and the content of organic carbon was between 0.47 and 0.49. The order of organic carbon content in different organs was leaf > stem > branch > root. The average carbon density of vegetation layer was 7.56kg/m 2 , and the carbon density of the arbor layer was 7.16 kg/m 2 , the shrub layer was 0.17kg/m 2 , the litter layer was 0.15kg/m 2 , and the herb layer was 0.08 kg/m 2. The carbon density of the Schima superba forest was the highest which was 9.68kg/m 2 , the carbon density of the Cyclobalanopsis glauca forest was the smallest which was 6.44kg/m 2 , and the carbon density of the Castanopsis sclerophylla forest was 6.56kg/m 2. The content of soil organic carbon in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in Dagang Mountain Nature Reserve decreased with the increase of soil depth. The average soil carbon density was 20.926kg/m 2 , and the soil carbon density of Schima superba forest, Cyclobalanopsis glauca forest and Castanopsis sclerophylla forest was 16.634 kg/m 2 , 29.554 kg/m 2 and 16.591 kg/m 2 respectively. The carbon storage of the standard samples of the Schima superba forest, Cyclobalanopsis glauca forest and Castanopsis sclerophylla forest were 14.971t, 26.599t and 14.932t respectively.

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Consequences of long-term severe industrial pollution for aboveground carbon and nitrogen pools in northern taiga forests at local and regional scales

Cited by 23 publications

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Vermiculite-Lizardite Industrial Wastes Promote Plant Growth in a Peat Soil Affected by a Cu/Ni Smelter: a Case Study at the Kola Peninsula, Russia

Vermiculite-Lizardite Industrial Wastes Promote Plant Growth in a Peat Soil Affected by a Cu/Ni Smelter: a Case Study at the Kola Peninsula, Russia

Ontogenetic changes in insect herbivory in birch (Betula pubesecens): The importance of plant apparency

Vegetation and Soil Carbon Storage of Some Typical Subtropical Evergreen Broad-leaved Forest in Dagang Mountain

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