Download Biomonitoring methods for assessing the impacts
of nitrogen pollution: refinement and testing by the
following sections:
1.1. Background
1.2. Objectives of the project
1.3. Report field studies
1.4. Structure of the report
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Measurement methods
2.3. Results
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Piddles wood
3.3. Happendon wood
3.4. Auchencorth moss
3.5. Bowbeat hill
3.6. Whim moss
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Methods
4.3. Results
4.4. N deposition
4.5. Acidophyte/nitrophyte index
4.6. Discussion
4.7. Conclusions
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Methods
5.3. Results
Piddles Wood
Happendon Wood
Auchencorth Moss and Bowbeat
Hill
Whim Moss
5.4. Discussion
5.5. Conclusions
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Methods
6.3. Results
6.4. Relationship between total tissue n
content of mosses and soluble nh4-n concentration at the
intensive sites Piddles Wood and Happendon Wood
6.5. Auchencorth Moss and Bowbeat
Hill
6.6. Whim Moss
6.7. Discussion
6.8. Conclusions
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Methods
7.3. Results
7.4. Discussion
7.5. Conclusions
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Comparison of robustness and
practical application of the biomonitoring methods
8.3. Comparison of the practical
application of the biomonitoring methods
8.4. Comparison of biomonitoring methods
use in the assessment of n impacts along the nh3
gradient at Piddles Wood, Dorset
8.5. Comparison of biomonitoring methods
for assessment of n impacts along a transect from the m74 motorway
(happendon wood, south lanarkshire)
8.6. Tissue N content and soluble
nh4-n concentration along a gradient of pollutant from a point
source
8.7. Conclusions
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Methods
9.3. Training course
9.4. Field officer sampling packs
9.5. Uk sites
9.6. Sampling protocols
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Results
10.3. Comparison of the use of critical
load as an indicator of monitoring or integrity compared to
biomontor methods applied in the current study
10.4. Determination of n impact using a
threshold tissue n content value
10.5. Conclusions
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Results
11.3. Comparison with other
pollutants
11.4. Comparison of biomonitoring methods
applied across the uk
11.5. Conclusions
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Methods
12.3. Results
12.4. Discussion
12.5. Conclusions
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Site selection
13.3. Determination of mean habitat total
n content for pleurocarpous moss species
13.4. Determination of mean habitat
soluble nh4-n concentration for pleurocarpous
moss species
13.5. Estimate of n deposition using
pleurocarpous moss total n content data
13.6. Lichen indicator values
13.7. Comparison of uk extensive
pleurocarpous moss tissue n contents and soluble nh4-n
concentrations with annual rainfall
13.8. Conclusions
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Scenarios
14.3. Conclusions
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Background
15.3. Site integrity
15.4. Cause and effect biomonitoring
conceptual model216
15.5. Piddles wood sssi
15.6. Caldanagh bog assi
15.7. Ariundle sssi
15.8. Llanymynech and llynclys hills
sssi
15.9. Conclusions
16.1. Introduction
16.2. The biomonitoring chain and its
implications for linking source attribution and effects on site
condition
16.3. The need for benchmarking and
intercalibation of bioindicator methods
16.4. Dealing with different units between
indicators in benchmarking and intercalibration
16.5. Relevance of spatial and temporal
analysis for intercalibration of indicators
16.6. Defining benchmarks for different
nitrogen indicators
16.7. Integrated visualisation of
indicator results in relation to benchmarks
16.8. Conclusions
A1.1. Introduction
A1.2. Methods
A1.3. Test 1: the effect of extraction
time in ultra-sonic extraction.
A1.4. Test 2: comparison of several
different extraction methods
A1.5. Test 3: sample extracting in water:
the influence of temperature, light and ‘leaking time’
A1.6. Test 4: sample extracting in water:
different moss species
A1.7. Discussion
A1.8. Conclusions
A1.9. References
A2.1. Introduction
A2.2. Methods
A2.2.1. Plant material
A2.2.2. Agsorb
A2.2.3. Pre-treatment
harvest
A2.2.4. Experimental procedure (whim
moss experimental facility)
A2.2.5. Nh3 concentration
monitoring
A2.2.6. Destructive harvest
A2.2.7. L. Multiflorum tiller and root
biomass and tissue and content
A2.3. Results
A2.3.1. Above and
below ground biomass
A2.3.2. Tissue n
content
A2.3.3. Total
above and below ground inventory
A2.4. Discussion
A2.5. Conclusions
A3.1. Background