Long-term trends and spatial variability in nitrate leaching from alpine catchment - lake ecosystems in the Tatra Mountains (Slovakia-Poland)

Abstract

Relationships between catchment characteristics of 31 alpine lakes and observed trends in lake water concentrations of nitrate were evaluated in the Tatra Mountains.

Keywords

• nitrogen
• recovery
• acidification
• acid deposition
• soil
• ACID-SENSITIVE LAKES
• NITROGEN DEPOSITION
• FOREST ECOSYSTEMS
• ACIDIFICATION
• SATURATION
• RETENTION
• REVERSIBILITY
• CONSEQUENCES
• PREDICTION
• MODEL