期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 568, 期 -, 页码 522-535出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.104
关键词
Western North American mercury synthesis; Wnams; Landscape gradients; Soil pollution; Plant pump; Trace metals
资金
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Coupled Natural-Human Systems Program [1313755]
- NSF Division of Polar Programs [1304202]
- Desert Research Institute
- U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
- NSF Division of Earth Sciences [EAR-0952068]
- John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Directorate For Geosciences
- ICER [1313755] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
- Directorate For Geosciences [1304202] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
A synthesis of published vegetation mercury (Hg) data across 11 contiguous states in the western United States showed that aboveground biomass concentrations followed the order: leaves (26 xi g kg(-1)) similar to branches (26 mu g kg(-1)) N bark (16 mu g kg(-1)) N bole wood (1 mu g kg(-1)). No spatial trends of Hg in aboveground biomass distribution were detected, which likely is due to very sparse data coverage and different sampling protocols. Vegetation data are largely lacking for important functional vegetation types such as shrubs, herbaceous species, and grasses. Soil concentrations collected from the published literature were high in the western United States, with 12% of observations exceeding 100 mu g kg(-1), reflecting a bias toward investigations in Hg-enriched sites. In contrast, soil Hg concentrations from a randomly distributed data set (1911 sampling points; Smith et al., 2013a) averaged 24 mu g kg(-1) (A-horizon) and 22 mu g kg(-1) (C-horizon), and only 2.6% of data exceeded 100 mu g kg(-1). Soil Hg concentrations significantly differed among land covers, following the order: forested upland N planted/cultivated N herbaceous upland/shrubland N barren soils. Concentrations in forests were on average 2.5 times higher than in barren locations. Principal component analyses showed that soil Hg concentrations were not or weakly related to modeled dry and wet Hg deposition and proximity to mining, geothermal areas, and coal-fired power plants. Soil Hg distribution also was not closely related to other trace metals, but strongly associated with organic carbon, precipitation, canopy greenness, and foliar Hg pools of overlying vegetation. These patterns indicate that soil Hg concentrations are related to atmospheric deposition and reflect an overwhelming influence of plant productivity - driven by water availability - with productive landscapes showing high soil Hg accumulation and unproductive barren soils and shrublands showing low soil Hg values. Large expanses of low-productivity, arid ecosystems across the western U.S. result in some of the lowest soil Hg concentrations observed worldwide. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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