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An extensive network of bottle/funnel collectors was used to measure hydrologic, SO;-, and NO; fluxes in rain events and in throughfall beneath the canopies of several high elevation forest stands in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park during 1989-1990. The throughfall fluxes were used as deposition surrogates to quantify trends in atmospheric inputs to sapling trees growing in forest gaps and to the mature forest canopy at the edge surrounding each gap. The paired gap/edge stands were located above (1940 m) and below (1720 m) the base of the clouds typically impacting this mountain. Total hydrologic and ion fluxes beneath the edge trees during the forest growing season exceeded fluxes beneath the adjacent gap saplings by nearly a factor of three (e.g. 230 vs 88 meq m-z for SO:-) at both elevations. Water and SO:-fluxes were up to two times greater beneath the forest edge at the cloud-prone 1940 m site than at 1720 m (e.g. 230 vs 110 meq m-\* for SO:-). However, throughfall NO; fluxes were about 30% higher at 1720 m (17 vs 13 meq me\*), because this lower site receives greater dry deposition of HNO, due to its ridgetop location and greater wind penetration. Estimates of SOi-dep

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Author

S. E. Lindberg; J. G. Owens

Publisher

Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0923-9820)

Published

1993

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)