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[ZD09] Critical loads and exceedances of sulfur and nitrogen for ecosystems
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Acidification of forests represents a potential danger only in the non-hydrocarbon part of Slovenia, especially in the east of the country. According to rough estimates, the critical loads occur particularly in the wider area of both major thermals (Zasavje, Celjska kotlina and Šaleška dolina). Excessive eutrophication of forests for deposition from the air does not take looming forest areas in Slovenia.

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Figure ZD09-1: Critical loads of nitrogen and sulphur in forest ecosystems in Slovenia (in equivalents per hectare per year)
Sources:

Biotechnical Faculty, Center for pedology and Environmental Protection; Slovenian Forest Service, Slovenian Envirpnmet Agency, The Surveying and mapping Autority of the RS; EMEP database (data are summarized for different periods, see methodology)

Figure ZD09-2: Critical loads on forest ecosystems in Slovenia with nitrogen, which causes eutrophication (left map) and compounds of nitrogen and sulfur, which cause acidification (right map) on the basis of deposition in 2000
Sources:

Biotechnical Faculty, Center for pedology and Environmental Protection; Slovenian Forest Service, Slovenian Envirpnmet Agency, The Surveying and mapping Autority of the RS; EMEP database (data are summarized for different periods, see methodology)

Figure ZD09-3: On the basis of EMEP and other data calculated critical loads forest ecosystems of Europe (left - critical loads of acidic compounds, right - critical loads of nitrogen as a nutrient)
Sources:

CCE status Report 2008.

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Last modified
15.12.2010
Author(s)

Klemen Eler, Milan Kobal, Primož Simončič, Slovenian Forestry Institute;