Soil processes and tree growth at shooting ranges in a boreal forest reflect contamination history and lead-induced changes in soil food webs

The Science of the Total Environment
Salla Selonen, Heikki Setälä

Abstract

The effects of shooting-derived lead (Pb) on the structure and functioning of a forest ecosystem, and the recovery of the ecosystem after range abandonment were studied at an active shotgun shooting range, an abandoned shooting range where shooting ceased 20 years earlier and an uncontaminated control site. Despite numerous lead-induced changes in the soil food web, soil processes were only weakly related to soil food web composition. However, decomposition of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) needle litter was retarded at the active shooting range, and microbial activity, microbial biomass and the rate of decomposition of Pb-contaminated grass litter decreased with increasing soil Pb concentrations. Tree (P. sylvestris) radial growth was suppressed at the active shooting range right after shooting activities started. In contrast, the growth of pines improved at the abandoned shooting range after the cessation of shooting, despite reduced nitrogen and phosphorus contents of the needles. Higher litter degradation rates and lower Pb concentrations in the topmost soil layer at the abandoned shooting range suggest gradual recovery after range abandonment. Our findings suggest that functions in lead-contaminated coniferous forest ecosys...Continue Reading

References

Apr 7, 1999·Journal of Microbiological Methods·A M Briones, W Reichardt
Mar 22, 2000·Environmental and Experimental Botany·E KukkolaS Huttunen
Aug 19, 2003·The Science of the Total Environment·Colin T R Darling, Vernon G Thomas
Aug 1, 1959·Canadian Journal of Biochemistry and Physiology·E G BLIGH, W J DYER
Feb 7, 2006·The Science of the Total Environment·Jaana SorvariOuti Pyy
Mar 29, 2006·Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry·Sébastien Sauvé
Jul 4, 2006·The Science of the Total Environment·Minna-Liisa RantalainenHeikki Setälä
Jul 18, 2006·Trends in Ecology & Evolution·Jason R RohrAndrew Sih
Jan 25, 2007·The New Phytologist·Björn D LindahlRoger D Finlay
Mar 16, 2007·Environmental Pollution·Corinne P RooneyLeo M Condron
Aug 31, 2012·Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry·Salla SelonenHeikki Setälä
Sep 18, 2013·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Ewa ChudzińskaAleksandra Wojnicka-Półtorak
Apr 20, 2014·The Science of the Total Environment·Isabel Parraga-AguadoHector M Conesa

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Citations

Nov 5, 2015·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Dace PīrāgaGuntis Brūmelis
Feb 15, 2019·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Agnieszka BęśBarbara Adomas
Sep 4, 2019·International Journal of Phytoremediation·Ryan R BusbyKarl J Indest
Mar 9, 2019·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Anne-Liese KrügerJames Odendaal
Dec 28, 2016·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Salla Selonen, Heikki Setälä

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Anthelmintics

Anthelmintics or antihelminthics are a group of antiparasitic drugs that expel parasitic worms (helminths) and other internal parasites from the body by either stunning or killing them and without causing significant damage to the host. Discover the latest research on anthelmintics here.

Anthelmintics (ASM)

Anthelmintics or antihelminthics are a group of antiparasitic drugs that expel parasitic worms (helminths) and other internal parasites from the body by either stunning or killing them and without causing significant damage to the host. Discover the latest research on anthelmintics here.