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ILTER Atmospheric Deposition and Stream Nitrogen Synthesis

General Information
Data Package:
Local Identifier:edi.1066.30
Title:ILTER Atmospheric Deposition and Stream Nitrogen Synthesis
Alternate Identifier:DOI PLACE HOLDER
Abstract:

We identified variables controlling stream nitrogen concentrations and fluxes, and how they have changed over time , by synthesizing 20 time series ranging from 5 to 51 years of data collected from forest and grassland dominated watersheds across Europe, North America, and East Asia and across four climate types (tropical, temperate, Mediterranean, and boreal) using the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network. We found declining trends in bulk ammonium and nitrate deposition, with ammonium contributing significantly more to atmospheric nitrogen deposition over time. Among sites, there were significant positive relationships between (1) precipitation and stream ammonium and nitrate fluxes and (2) atmospheric nitrogen inputs and stream nitrogen concentrations and fluxes. There were no significant relationships between air temperature and stream nitrogen export. Our long-term data shows that although nitrogen deposition is declining over time, atmospheric nitrogen inputs and precipitation remain the main predictors for nitrogen exported from forested and grassland watersheds. Overall, we also demonstrate that long-term monitoring provides understanding of ecosystems and biogeochemical cycling that would not be possible with short-term studies alone.

Acknowledgements

We thank the organizers and funders of the ILTER Nitrogen Initiative Training Course and Workshop in Hokkaido, Japan in June 2016, which brought together many of the participants in this project. Templer was supported by a US National Science Foundation LTER grant NSF DEB 1637685. McDowell was supported by US National Science Foundation LTER grant NSF DEB 1831592. We are grateful to the EU Horizon 2020 funded eLTER PLUS project (Grand Agreement No. 871128) for financial support to Haase and Dirnböck. Dirnböck was also funded by the LTER-CWN project (FFG project number 858024). This study was partly supported by the Research Initiative Grants of the ILTER, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (17H03833), and Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN; a constituent member of NIHU) Project No. 14200156. Sharif was supported by NRT-INFEWS: UMD Global STEWARDS (STEM Training at the Nexus of Energy, WAter Reuse and FooD Systems) that was awarded to the University of Maryland School of Public Health by the National Science Foundation National Research Traineeship Program, Grant number 1828910. The monitoring of the Svartberget site in Sweden was funded by the SITES program from the Swedish Research Council. The monitoring of the Volbu Nyhaga site in Norway was part of JOVA - The Norwegian Agricultural Environmental Monitoring Programme, financed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Lajtha was supported by NSF grants DEB-1257032 and DEB-1440409 to the H. J. Andrews Long Term Ecological Research program. The data collection in the Wüstebach catchment was supported by TERENO (Terrestrial Environmental Observatories) funded by the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft. We thank the “Hessisches Landesamt für Naturschutz, Umwelt und Geologie” for providing data from the Rhine-Main-Observatory. I.Kokorīte was supported by the University of Latvia grant No. AAp2016/B041//Zd2016/AZ03. We thank the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center for providing the monitoring data for Latvian site. Anna Avila was supported by Spanish Ministry of Science projects CGL2017-84687-C2-2-R and CGL2009-13188-C03-01. We thank the Tyrolean Alps Long-Term Sociological Ecological and Research (LTSER, Austria) and R. Psenner and S. Morales for helping with data for Piburger See. Data from Hubbard Brook were supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB-1907683) and US Forest Service, Northern Research Station. A. Robison was supported by US National Science Foundation LTER grant NSF OCE 1637630. W. Dodds was supported by NSF DEB 2025849. Observations at Lange Bramke site were funded by the Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of Lower Saxony under the Permanent Soil Monitoring Programme. The Krofdorf site was funded by the Hessian Ministry of Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection under the “Waldökosystemstudie Hessen”. SRM Lins was supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP, grant number 2012/20377-9. Long-term monitoring at Lake Maggiore (LTER site EU-IT08-001-A) was funded by the International Commission for the Protection of Swiss-Italian waters (CIPAIS).

Publication Date:2022-02-13
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Time Period
Begin:
1964-01-01
End:
2019-12-31

People and Organizations
Contact:Templer, P H (Boston University) [  email ]
Creator:Templer, P H (Boston University)
Creator:Harrison, J L (Boston University)
Creator:Pilotto, F (Norwegian institute for nature research (NINA))
Creator:Flores-Díaz, A (Universidad Iberoamericana)
Creator:Haase, P (Senckenberg Research Institute, Natural History Museum Frankfurt, University of Duisburg-Essen)
Creator:McDowell, W H (University of New Hampshire)
Creator:Sharif, R (University of Maryland)
Creator:Shibata, H (Hokkaido University)
Creator:Blankman, D (ILTER Information Management Committee)
Creator:Avila, A (Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Creator:Baatar, U  (University of Vienna, Rennweg)
Creator:Bogena, H R (Agrosphere Institute)
Creator:Bourgeois, I (University of Colorado Boulder)
Creator:Campbell, J (US Forest Service)
Creator:Dirnböck, T (Environment Agency Austria)
Creator:Dodds, W K (Kansas State University)
Creator:Hauken, M (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research)
Creator:Kokorite, I (University of Latvia)
Creator:Lajtha, K (Oregon State University)
Creator:Lai, I-L (National Pingtung University of Science and Technology)
Creator:Laudon, H (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Creator:Lin, T C (National Taiwan Normal University)
Creator:Lins, S (University of São Paulo)
Creator:Meesenburg, H (Northwest German Forest Research Institute)
Creator:Pinho, P (Universidade de Lisboa)
Creator:Robison, A (University of New Hampshire)
Creator:Rogora, M (Water Research Institute)
Creator:Scheler, B (Northwest German Forest Research Institute)
Creator:Schleppi, P (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research)
Creator:Sommaruga, R (University of Innsbruc)
Creator:Staszewski, T (Institute for Ecology of Industrial Area)
Creator:Taka, M (Water and Environmental Engineering Research Group)

Data Entities
Data Table Name:
ILTER_Dat_12_AVG_watershed_publishedDateset
Description:
ILTER Climate, stream, and atmospheric deposition nitrogen. Data are averaged across watersheds within each site for each year.
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Data Entities


Data Table

Data:https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/edi/1066/30/aa9bec4a0f0467fa5c45e99bf7091e43
Name:ILTER_Dat_12_AVG_watershed_publishedDateset
Description:ILTER Climate, stream, and atmospheric deposition nitrogen. Data are averaged across watersheds within each site for each year.
Number of Records:526
Number of Columns:23

Table Structure
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Stream_Ammon_F  
Stream_Nitrate_F  
Ammon_Wet_Dep  
Nitrate_Wet_Dep  
Ammon_Dry_Dep  
Nitrate_Dry_Dep  
Ammon_Bulk_Dep  
Nitrate_Bulk_Dep  
Ammon_TF_Dep  
Nitrate_TF_Dep  
Percent_Ammon_TF_Dep  
Percent_Ammon_Bulk_Dep  
Percent_Ammon_Wet_Dep  
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DefinitionFushan, Taiwan
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DefinitionH. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon USA
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Source
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Source
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CodeRiver Salaca
DefinitionRiver Salaca, Latvia
Source
Code Definition
CodeSvartberget
DefinitionSvartberget, Norway
Source
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DefinitionTERENO Wustebach, Germany
Source
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DefinitionUryu Experimental Forest, Japan
Source
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DefinitionVolbu, Norway
Source
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Max21.7 
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Typereal
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Typereal
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Data Package Usage Rights

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Keywords

By Thesaurus:
LTER Core Research Areainorganic nutrients, disturbance patterns
LTER Controlled Vocabularyecosystems, forests, watersheds
HBES VocabularyHBR, Hubbard Brook LTER, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, HBES, HBEF, New Hampshire, NH
National Research & Development TaxonomyEcology, Ecosystems, & Environment
(No thesaurus)bulk nitrogen deposition, LTER, atmospheric pollution, throughfall, watersheds, water quality

Methods and Protocols

These methods, instrumentation and/or protocols apply to all data in this dataset:

Methods and protocols used in the collection of this data package
Description:

We assembled data from non-urban and non-agricultural forest and grassland ecosystems in International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) sites around the globe. We put out a call to ILTER researchers requesting data from individual sites in January 2017. We received data from 20 different sites across three continents (Europe, North America, and East Asia) and four climate regimes (tropical, temperate, Mediterranean and boreal). We utilized data reported by researchers for climate (annual temperature and precipitation), atmospheric nitrogen deposition (wet, bulk, and throughfall), and stream nitrogen concentrations and fluxes across climate regimes and continents, for all years researchers made data available. All statistical analyses were conducted in R version 4.0.2 (R Core Team 2020). 

People and Organizations

Publishers:
Organization:Environmental Data Initiative
Email Address:
info@environmentaldatainitiative.org
Web Address:
https://environmentaldatainitiative.org
Id:https://ror.org/0330j0z60
Creators:
Individual: P H Templer
Organization:Boston University
Email Address:
ptempler@bu.edu
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6570-3837
Individual: J L Harrison
Organization:Boston University
Email Address:
harrisoj@bu.edu
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7937-0503
Individual: F Pilotto
Organization:Norwegian institute for nature research (NINA)
Email Address:
francesca.pilotto@nina.no
Individual: A Flores-Díaz
Organization:Universidad Iberoamericana
Email Address:
adri.flores.diaz@gmail.com
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1297-7380
Individual: P Haase
Organization:Senckenberg Research Institute, Natural History Museum Frankfurt, University of Duisburg-Essen
Email Address:
Peter.Haase@senckenberg.de
Individual: W H McDowell
Organization:University of New Hampshire
Email Address:
bill.mcdowell@unh.edu
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8739-9047
Individual: R Sharif
Organization:University of Maryland
Email Address:
rahatsharif@gmail.com
Individual: H Shibata
Organization:Hokkaido University
Email Address:
shiba@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp
Individual: D Blankman
Organization:ILTER Information Management Committee
Email Address:
dblankman1@gmail.com
Individual: A Avila
Organization:Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Email Address:
Anna.avila@uab.cat
Individual: U  Baatar
Organization:University of Vienna, Rennweg
Email Address:
undrakhod.baatar@gmail.com
Individual: H R Bogena
Organization:Agrosphere Institute
Email Address:
h.bogena@fz-juelich.de
Individual: I Bourgeois
Organization:University of Colorado Boulder
Email Address:
ilann.bourgeois@noaa.gov
Individual: J Campbell
Organization:US Forest Service
Email Address:
jlcampbell@fs.fed.us
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4956-1696
Individual: T Dirnböck
Organization:Environment Agency Austria
Email Address:
thomas.dirnboeck@umweltbundesamt.at
Individual: W K Dodds
Organization:Kansas State University
Email Address:
wkdodds@ksu.edu
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6666-8930
Individual: M Hauken
Organization:Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Email Address:
marit.hauken@nibio.no
Individual: I Kokorite
Organization:University of Latvia
Email Address:
ilga.kokorite@lu.lv
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6052-4963
Individual: K Lajtha
Organization:Oregon State University
Email Address:
lajthak@science.oregonstate.edu
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6430-4818
Individual: I-L Lai
Organization:National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
Email Address:
iling.lai@gmail.com
Individual: H Laudon
Organization:Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Email Address:
hjalmar.Laudon@slu.se
Individual: T C Lin
Organization:National Taiwan Normal University
Email Address:
tclin@ntnu.edu.tw
Individual: S Lins
Organization:University of São Paulo
Email Address:
silviarafaela@gmail.com
Individual: H Meesenburg
Organization:Northwest German Forest Research Institute
Email Address:
henning.meesenburg@nw-fva.de
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3035-4737
Individual: P Pinho
Organization:Universidade de Lisboa
Email Address:
paplopes@fc.ul.pt
Individual: A Robison
Organization:University of New Hampshire
Email Address:
andrew.robison@unh.edu
Individual: M Rogora
Organization:Water Research Institute
Email Address:
michela.rogora@cnr.it
Individual: B Scheler
Organization:Northwest German Forest Research Institute
Email Address:
birte.scheler@nw-fva.de
Individual: P Schleppi
Organization:Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Email Address:
schleppi@wsl.ch
Individual: R Sommaruga
Organization:University of Innsbruc
Email Address:
ruben.sommaruga@uibk.ac.at
Individual: T Staszewski
Organization:Institute for Ecology of Industrial Area
Email Address:
t.staszewski@ietu.pl
Individual: M Taka
Organization:Water and Environmental Engineering Research Group
Email Address:
maija.taka@aalto.fi
Contacts:
Individual: P H Templer
Organization:Boston University
Email Address:
ptempler@bu.edu
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6570-3837

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

Temporal, Geographic and/or Taxonomic information that applies to all data in this dataset:

Time Period
Begin:
1964-01-01
End:
2019-12-31
Sampling Site: 
Description:Alptal
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 8.713Latitude (degree): 47.044
Sampling Site: 
Description:Brenna
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 18.9371Latitude (degree): 49.6604
Sampling Site: 
Description:Fushan
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 121.566666666667Latitude (degree): 23.5666666666667
Sampling Site: 
Description:HJ Andrews Experimental For
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -122.169Latitude (degree): 44.2323
Sampling Site: 
Description:Hubbard Brook Exper For
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -71.805Latitude (degree): 43.962
Sampling Site: 
Description:Konza Prairie
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -96.574987Latitude (degree): 39.095385
Sampling Site: 
Description:Krofdorf
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 8.65Latitude (degree): 50.68
Sampling Site: 
Description:Lago Maggiore
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 8.63403Latitude (degree): 45.9547
Sampling Site: 
Description:Lange Bramke
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 10.4333Latitude (degree): 51.8667
Sampling Site: 
Description:LTER Zöbelboden
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 14.44413616Latitude (degree): 47.84224607
Sampling Site: 
Description:Luquillo
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -65.7015Latitude (degree): 18.3607
Sampling Site: 
Description:Parque Natural del Montseny
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -2.35277Latitude (degree): 41.7773
Sampling Site: 
Description:Piburger See
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 10.8833Latitude (degree): 47.1833
Sampling Site: 
Description:Plum Island Ecosystems
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -71.2198Latitude (degree): 42.8276
Sampling Site: 
Description:Rhine-Main-Observatory
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 9.269139Latitude (degree): 50.267302
Sampling Site: 
Description:River Salaca
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 24.3333Latitude (degree): 57.8
Sampling Site: 
Description:Svartberget
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 19.7611Latitude (degree): 64.2372
Sampling Site: 
Description:TERENO Wüstebach
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 6.43333Latitude (degree): 50.5833
Sampling Site: 
Description:Uryu Experimental For
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 142.261025Latitude (degree): 44.364964
Sampling Site: 
Description:Volbu Nyhaga
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): 9.06Latitude (degree): 61.12

Project

Maintenance

Maintenance:
Description:complete
Frequency:
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