Temporal Trends in the Quality of Streamwater in an Alpine Environment: Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range, U.S.A.
作者:
CaineNel,
期刊:
Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography
(Taylor Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 77,
issue 4
页码: 207-220
ISSN:0435-3676
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1080/04353676.1995.11880441
出版商: Taylor&Francis
关键词: Alpine hydrology;stream acidification;acid neutralizing capacity;Colorado Front Range
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
ABSTRACTGreen Lakes Valley is a high (3500 m elevation), mid-continental drainage at relatively low latitude (40°N) which appears to have been influenced by a variety of environmental changes in the past half-century. Important among these have been increased rates of deposition of strong acid anions from the atmosphere and a corresponding tendency toward acidification of surface waters. In response, a declining trend in acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) and in the pH of streamwater in the basin has occurred in the past 25 years. This trend is most marked at the highest (most alpine) elevations in the basin where there is little soil and vegetation cover but remains detectable, if less marked, at all elevations down to treeline (3250 m). It suggests that acidification (defined as a loss of ANC) of surface water will be widespread in the basin within a decade.
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