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Calcium and strontium isotope dynamics in three polluted forest ecosystems of the Czech Republic, Central Europe

M. Novák,C. Holmden,J. Farkas,P. Krám,J. Hruska,J. Čuřík,F. Veselovský,M. Štěpánová,Yulia V. Kochergina,V. Erban,D. Fottová,Martin Šimeček,L. Bohdálková,E. Přechová,Petra Voldřichová,V. Černohous

Published 2020 in Chemical Geology

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Abstract Calcium and strontium isotope ratios were used to identify Ca sources for bulk soil, soil solutions and runoff in the stressed forest ecosystems of Central Europe. All three study sites are underlain by Ca-poor crystalline bedrock (orthogneiss, leucogranite and serpentinite, respectively), but differ in historical rates of acid deposition. UDL, the spruce die-back affected site at the Czech–Polish border underlain by orthogneiss, received six times more acidifying compounds from the atmosphere than LYS and PLB, two paired catchments near the Czech–German border. The paired catchments near the Czech–German border, whose forests were only mildly damaged by industrial pollution, differ in their acid buffering capacity (extremely low for LYS leucogranite, extremely high for PLB serpentinite). At the spruce die-back affected catchment UDL, 19 years of monthly hydrochemical monitoring revealed six times higher atmospheric deposition and runoff fluxes of Ca, compared to the paired catchments LYS and PLB. Across the three sites, the mean δ44Ca values increased in the order: spruce bark (−0.84‰)

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