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Quantifying the effects of clear-cutting and strip-cutting on nitrate dynamics in a forested watershed using triple oxygen isotopes as tracers
Tsunogai, U.
Komatsu, D. D.
Ohyama, T.
Suzuki, A.
Nakagawa, F.
Noguchi, I.
Takagi, K.
Nomura, M.
Fukuzawa, K.
Shibata, H.
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Temporal variations in the stable isotopic compositions of nitrate dissolved in stream water eluted from a cool–temperate forested watershed (8 ha) were measured to quantify the biogeochemical effects of clear-cutting of trees and subsequent strip-cutting of the understory vegetation, dwarf bamboo (Sasa senanensis), with special emphasis on changes in the fate of atmospheric nitrate that had been deposited onto the watershed based on Δ17O values of nitrate. A significant increase in stream nitrate concentration to 15 μmol L−1 in spring of 2004 was correlated with a significant increase in the Δ17O values of nitrate. Additionally, the high Δ17O values of +14.3‰ suggest that the direct drainage of atmospheric nitrate accounted for more than 50% of total nitrate exported from the forested watershed peaking in spring. Similar increases in both concentrations and Δ17O values were also found in spring of 2005. Conversely, low Δ17O values less than +1.5‰ were observed in other seasons, regardless of increases in stream nitrate concentration, indicating that the majority of nitrate exported from the forested watershed during seasons other than spring was remineralized nitrate: those retained in the forested ecosystem as either organic N or ammonium and then been converted to nitrate via microbial nitrification. When compared with the values prior to strip-cutting, the annual export of atmospheric nitrate and remineralized nitrate increased more than 16-fold and fourfold, respectively, in 2004, and more than 13-fold and fivefold, respectively, in 2005. The understory vegetation (Sasa) was particularly important to enhancing biological consumption of atmospheric nitrate.
Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
Copernicus Publications
2014-10
eng
journal article
VoR
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/21795
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/19749
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-5411-2014
1726-4170
Biogeosciences
11
5411
5424
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/19749/files/bg-11-5411-2014.pdf
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