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Effects of climate and acidic deposition on interannual variations of stream water chemistry in forested watersheds in the Shimanto River Basin, southern Japan

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Although the amount of acidic deposition has recently decreased in Japan, it has still deteriorated some forest ecosystems during the past several decades. Moreover, recent climate changes can affect stream water chemistry. We investigated the temporal trend and effects of climate conditions on stream water chemistry for more than 20 years in two areas (Yusuhara and Taisho) in the Shmanto River Basin, southern Japan, where the effects of acidic deposition are considered to be modest. Stream water samples were collected monthly from three forest watersheds selected at each site. The annual means of the stream chemistry were predicted by multiple regression analysis. The ammonium, nitrate, and sulfate concentrations in the bulk precipitation have decreased at Yusuhara, and the sodium, magnesium, calcium, chloride, nitrate, and sulfate concentrations in the stream water have decreased in both areas. The nitrate and sulfate concentrations apparently responded to the decreasing input of acidic deposition. The sunlight hours were positively related with the potassium, magnesium, calcium, nitrate, sulfate, and bicarbonate concentrations in stream water. The results suggest that long sunlight hours boost the photosynthetic activities, thus promoting soil respiration and decomposition of soil organic matter. Moreover, a higher carbonic acid concentration in the soil solution promotes cation weathering and carbonic acid dissociation to bicarbonate. Given the decreasing trends in magnesium and calcium concentration with no change in bicarbonate concentration, we inferred that previousinputs of acidic deposition enhanced the rate of rock weathering.

acidic depositionforest watershedsrecoveryrock weatheringstream water

Yoshiyuki Inagaki、Hisao Sakai、Yoshiki Shinomiya、Shuichiro Yoshinaga、Atushi Torii、Tsuyoshi Yamada、Kyotaro Noguchi、Tomoaki Morishita、Kazumichi Fujii

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Shikoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kochi, Japan

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

Tama Forest Science Garden, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Hachioji, Japan

Kansai Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan

Tohoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Morioka, Japan

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2025

10.1111/1440-1703.12441

Ecological research

Ecological research

ISSN：0912-3814
年,卷(期)：2025.40(3)
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