Growth and survival relationships of 71 tree species with nitrogen and sulfur deposition across the conterminous U.S.

ABSTRACT: Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) influences forest demographics and carbon (C) uptake through multiple mechanisms that vary among tree species. Prior studies have estimated the effects of atmospheric N deposition on temperate forests by leveraging forest inventory measurements across regional gradients in deposition. However, in the United States (U.S.), these previous studies were limited in the number of species and the spatial scale of analysis, and did not include sulfur (S) deposition as a potential covariate. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis of how tree growth and survival for 71 species vary with N and S deposition across the conterminous U.S. Our analysis of 1,423,455 trees from forest plots inventoried between 2000 and 2016 reveals that the growth and/or survival of

SUBMITTER: Horn KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193662 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature