Bücher der Reihe Nutrients in Ecosystems

Sulphur as an essential plant nutrient has received little attention. This book aims to give an overview of our present knowledge with a special focus on the sulphur situation in agrosystems of industrialised Western Europe.

In order to study the effects of these dramatic changes in atmospheric chemistry on terrestrial ecosystems, comprehensive field studies were conducted in pine forest ecosystems along an historic gradient of atmospheric deposition rates in the northeastern lowlands of Germany.

Box 10 13 44, 03013 Cottbus, Germany The health status of forest trees and stands is determined by numerous site factors such as chemical, physical, and biological soil factors, water supply, climate, weather conditions, management history as well as atmospheric deposition impacts.