Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

, Volume 86, Issue 1–4, pp 173–186 | Cite as

Microbial responses of forest soil to moderate anthropogenic air pollution

A large scale field survey
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Abstract

There is a need to introduce soil microbiological methods into long term ecological monitoring programs. For this purpose we studied the impact of moderate anthropogenic air pollution in polluted and less polluted area districts, forest site types Calluna (CT), Vaccinium (VT) and Myrtillus (MT) and the amount of organic matter, measured as carbon content on the soil respiration activity and the ATP content. The main sources of local air pollutants (SO2 and NOx) in the polluted area district were from the capital' region and an oil refinery. Humus (F/H-layer) and the underlying 0 to 5 cm mineral soil samples were collected from 193 study plots located in the 5300 km2 study area. We found that the soil respiration rate in humus layer samples was lower in the polluted area district compared to the less polluted one (16.0 and 19.5 μL CO2 h−1g−1 dw, respectively), but the difference occurred only in the dry, coarse-textured CT forest site type. The mineral soil respiration rate and the mineral soil and humus layer ATP content were not affected, by the air pollution. Most of the variations of the biological variables were explained primarily by the soil carbon content, secondly by the forest site type and thirdly by the area division.

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Humus Mineral Soil Soil Respiration Soil Respiration Rate Humus Layer 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Water and Environment Research InstituteHelsinkiFinland
  2. 2.Department of Limnology and Environmental ProtectionUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
  3. 3.Department of Forest EcologyFinnish Forest Research InstituteVantaaFinland

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