Nitrogen deposition effects on ecosystem services and interactions with other pollutants and climate change

Jan Willem Erisman (1) , Allison Leach (2) , Mark A. Adams (3) , Julius I. Agboola (4) , Luan Ahmetaj (5) , Didier Alard (6) , Amy Austin (7) , Moses A. Awodun (8) , Simon Bareham (9) , Theresa L. Bird (10) , Albert Bleeker (1) , Keith Bull (11) , Sarah E. Cornell (12) , Eric Davidson (13) , Wim de Vries (14) , Teresa Dias (15) , Bridget Emmet (16) , Christine Goodale (17) , Tara Greaver (18) , Rick Haeuber (18) , Harry Harmens (16) , W. Kevin Hicks (19) , Lars Hogbom (20) , Paul G. Jarvis (21) , Matti Johansson (22) , Zoe Russel (23) , Colin Mcclean (24) , Bill Paton (25) , Tibisay Perez (26) , Jan Plesnik (27) , Nalini Rao (28) , Susanne Schmidt (29) , Yogendra B. Sharma (30) , Naoko Tokuchi (31) , Clare P. Whitfield (32)

1 ECN - Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
2 LBI - Louis Bolk Institute
3 University of Sydney
4 LASU - Lagos State University
5 Albanian Association of Organic Horticulture-Bioplant Albania
6 BioGeCo - Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés
7 UBA - Universidad de Buenos Aires
8 Federal University of Technology
9 Countryside Council for Wales
10 WITS - University of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg]
11 Lancaster University
12 Stockholm University
13 Woods Hole Research Center
14 WUR - Wageningen University and Research Centre
15 ULISBOA - Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon
16 NERC - Natural Environment Research Council
17 Cornell University [New York]
18 EPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency
19 SEI - Stockholm Environment Institute in York
20 Research Institute
21 Edin. - University of Edinburgh
22 UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
23 Natural England
24 University of York
25 Brandon University
26 Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research
27 Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection
28 Conservation International
29 UQ [All campuses : Brisbane, Dutton Park Gatton, Herston, St Lucia and other locations] - The University of Queensland
30 University of Oxford
31 Kyoto University
32 JNCC - Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Ecosystem services are defined as the ecological and socio-economic value of goods and services provided by natural and semi-natural ecosystems. Ecosystem services are being impacted by many human induced stresses, one of them being nitrogen (N) deposition and its interactions with other pollutants and climate change. It is concluded that N directly or indirectly affects a wide range of provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services, many of which are interrelated. When considering the effects of N on ecosystem services, it is important to distinguish between different types of ecosystems/species and the protection against N impacts should include other aspects related to N, in addition to biodiversity. The Working Group considered the following priorities of ecosystem services in relation to N: biodiversity; air quality/atmosphere; ecosystem changes; NO3 leaching; climate regulation and cultural issues. These are the services for which the best evidence is available in the literature. There is a conflicting interest between greenhouse gas ecosystem services and biodiversity protection; up to some point of increasing N inputs, net greenhouse gas uptake is improved, while biodiversity is already adversely affected.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Jan Willem Erisman, Allison Leach, Mark A. Adams, Julius I. Agboola, Luan Ahmetaj, et al.. Nitrogen deposition effects on ecosystem services and interactions with other pollutants and climate change. Nitrogen deposition, critical loads and biodiversity, Springer, 2014, 978-94-007-7938-9. ⟨10.1007/978-94-007-7939-6_51⟩. ⟨hal-02798879⟩