Publications
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1999
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Inger Aandahl Raastad Jan MulderAbstract
Effects of (1) the addition of 35 kg N ha-1yr-1(as NH4NO3) and (2) interception of throughfall and litterfall by means of a roof on concentrations, chemical characteristics and dynamics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in acid forest soils (podzols) were studied at Grdsjn, Sweden. A non-manipulated catchment served as a reference. After 4 yr of treatment no significant effects of either manipulation were found on concentrations and characteristics of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON). The variability of these parameters within catchments appeared to be of the same order of magnitude as the variability between catchments. At all sites, DON contributed more than 70% of the total dissolved nitrogen. In general, the proportion of hydrophilic DOC increased with depth. In contrast, to other studies the C/N ratio of DOM at Grdsjn did not show a clear pattern with depth. Other studies in SE U.S.A. have suggested that relatively low C/N ratios at depth are due to increased contribution of hydrophilic neutrals to DOC. However, this fraction appears to be small in temperate and boreal spruce forest soils, including Grdsjn.
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Gunnar Ogner Torild Wickstrøm Gabriele Remedios Svein Gjelsvik Guro Randem Hensel Jan Erik Jacobsen Monica Fongen Espen Skretting Britt SørlieAbstract
This article describes in brief the chemical analytical program at The Norwegian Forest Research Institute in 2000. Due to a continuous effort to develop and to improve analytical methods to meet the demands of forest research in Norway, the four earlier summaries of our methods (Ogner et al. 1975, 1977, 1984, 1991) are now outdated. This article replaces the previous ones and describes only those procedures currently being used for the analysis of water, plant and soil samples
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O. Janne KjønaasAbstract
Mixed bed ion exchange resin bags have previously been used in studies of soil N transformation rates with NH4-N and NO3-N being adsorbed from the solution percolating through the incubated soil core. An evaluation of the in situ adsorption efficiency of mixed bed resin bags was performed by comparing dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN, sum of NH4-N NO3-N) accumulated in resins with DIN fluxes in throughfall (TF) and with DIN concentrations in soil water. A significant correlation was found between DIN fluxes in TF and accumulated DIN in resins placed at the soil surface (r2= 0.92 for NO3-N, r2=0.86 for NH4-N, p0.001). The ratio of accumulated DIN in resins to DIN flux in TF was significantly affected by season. A low but significant correlation was found between NO3-N concentrations in soil water and NO3-N contents in resins deployed in the bottom of soil cylinders (r2=0.34, p0.01), however, when only the winter periods were taken into account, the correlation improved (r2=0.72, p0.001). As little water and few nutrients are removed from the soil water by the vegetation during the dormant season, the conditions inside and outside the core were more comparable. For NH4-N there was no correlation between accumulated amounts in the resins and concentrations in soil water sampled at 13 cm and 20 cm depth, respectively, probably due to the strong depth gradient in the NH4-N concentrations of the soil. Although the resin bags were unable to adsorb all the incoming DIN, they gave valuable information on small scale input of N and small scale differences in NO3-N leaching.
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Tonje Økland Rune Halvorsen Økland Eiliv SteinnesAbstract
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Tore SkrøppaAbstract
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Lennart Eriksson Klas ÖsterbergAbstract
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Rune Halvorsen Økland Knut Rydgren Tonje ØklandAbstract
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The area along the Norwegian-Russian border is threatened by air pollution from emission sources on the Kola Peninsula. A permanent network of 78 systematically chosen monitoring sites has been established in eastern Finnmark, Norway. Species abundance data from the ground vegetation have been recorded from 1320 systematically chosen permanent plots inside 66 of these sites, using frequency in subplots and visual estimates of percentage cover. Environmental variables were obtained for the whole site. Multivariate data analysis has been used to describe the variation in the species composition and to study its relation to environmental variables and pollution impact. The analyses show that much of the variation in the species composition, based on average species abundance at the sites, is well explained by different soil and climatic conditions. However, estimated SO2 deposition, Ni, and Cu in the soil, and Ni in Cladina tissue have also been found to be statistically significantly correlated with the variation in the species data, but they explain only a minor part of the variation. The pollution impact over several years may have lead to a reduced lichen cover in the bottom-layer vegetation. Further development in an either negative or positive direction can be detected by re-investigations of the monitoring sites.
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This study aims to evaluate the quality of crown density data, based on independent, pairwise tree assessments. The data originates from monitoring of forest health (crown condition) in Norway; 250 plots, comprising 12 000 individual trees of Norway spruc e, have been reassessed by a single observer during 1990-95. Of the trees, 2300 were controlled more than twice, providing the possibility of evaluating the quality of assessed temporal changes of crown density. True errors (standard deviation) are estima ted to be about 10% for single trees and 5% for plot means, while the real standard deviation of the differences were slightly higher. The errors of the temporal changes of crown density were of similar magnitude. Systematic differences in crown density w ere found between sites and plot types, partly resulting from observer bias. However, the results suggest that observer bias is really the result of each observer\"s personal style in assessment.