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Relationship Between Atmospheric Dissolved Deposition and Mineral Dust Deposition in French Forests

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Calcium dissolved deposition shows an unusual spatial structure in France, probably due to the contribution of southern air masses from Mediterranean Sea and Saharan desert. These masses are often loaded with terrigenous particles that contain carbonates. However, no precise relationship has been quantified between dissolved Ca and mineral dust deposition (MDD). The database of the French network RENECOFOR, gathering atmospheric deposition <0.45 μm in 27 sites near forests during 18 years, was used to determine the non-sea-salt atmospheric deposition over France. This study (1) explores the relationship between dissolved components to decipher their origin in atmospheric deposition nearby forests and (2) tests the use of dissolved Ca and Mg as proxies for MDD. In the RENECOFOR database, non-sea-salt Ca (nssCa) preferentially deposited between May and August. MDD observed in RENECOFOR was synchronic with high nssCa deposition, particularly in June 2008, when air mass highly loaded with Saharan dust covered France. The dissolution of this mineral dust likely contributed to the nssCa deposition of this period and suggested a relationship between the depositions of nssCa and MDD. Then, MDD was specifically sampled with dissolved deposition in four sampling sites. Encouraging relationships were found between MDD and the depositions of nssMg and nssCa, suggesting that the latter could be used as a proxy for MDD in regions where it is not monitored, and in a retrospective approach in order to calculate nutrient fluxes.

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  1. The experimental site Montiers-sur-Saulx is managed in collaboration between Andra and INRA and is also part of the SOERE OPE (permanent environment observatory)

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the following institutions: the Andra for funding this study, the GIP ECOFOR for the financial support to the sites, and the ONF (French Office for Forest Management) for the access to the study sites and the database RENECOFOR, in particular its measures and updating.

We are also grateful to Jérôme Demaison and Serge Didier for designing and setting up the samples in field, to Pascal Courtois and Patrick Gross from the EEF laboratory (INRA), Chris Fléchard and Yannick Fauvel of the SAS laboratory (INRA), Pascale Battung, Perrine Mathieu and Claire Pantigny from the BEF laboratory (INRA), and Maxime Simon from the ANDRA for sampling and preparing the samples. The analyses of the samples were performed by Carine Cochet from BEF. We would like to thank Christophe Calvaruso for his help on the field and the discussion, and to Anna Avila for her suggestions improving the manuscript. We are also grateful to the two anonymous reviewers that considerably helped us improve the manuscript.

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  1. INRA (BEF) Route d’Amance, 54280, Champenoux, France

    Émeline Lequy & Marie-Pierre Turpault

  2. Office National des Forêts Direction technique et commerciale bois Département recherche, Bâtiment B, Boulevard de Constance, 77300, Fontainebleau, France

    Manuel Nicolas

  3. DRD—Observation Surveillance, Observatoire Pérenne de l’Environnement, Centre Meuse—Haute Marne, 55290, Bure, France

    Émeline Lequy & Sébastien Conil

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Lequy, É., Nicolas, M., Conil, S. et al. Relationship Between Atmospheric Dissolved Deposition and Mineral Dust Deposition in French Forests. Water Air Soil Pollut 224, 1680 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1680-4

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