Assessing the impact of acid rain and forest harvest intensity with the HD-MINTEQ model – soil chemistry of three Swedish conifer sites from 1880 to 2080

McGivney, Eric; Gustafsson, Jon Petter; Belyazid, Salim; Zetterberg, Therese; Löfgren, Stefan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-63-2019

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05 Feb 2019

Original research article |

| 05 Feb 2019

Assessing the impact of acid rain and forest harvest intensity with the HD-MINTEQ model – soil chemistry of three Swedish conifer sites from 1880 to 2080

Eric McGivney, Jon Petter Gustafsson, Salim Belyazid, Therese Zetterberg, and Stefan Löfgren

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RC1: 'Referee review', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Aug 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1', Jon Petter Gustafsson, 29 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Review of Soil-2018-17', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Sep 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2', Jon Petter Gustafsson, 29 Nov 2018
RC3: 'Manuscript Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 02 Oct 2018
- AC3: 'Reply to RC3', Jon Petter Gustafsson, 29 Nov 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (06 Dec 2018) by Boris Jansen

AR by Jon Petter Gustafsson on behalf of the Authors (11 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (18 Jan 2019) by Boris Jansen

ED: Publish as is (18 Jan 2019) by Jorge Mataix-Solera (Executive editor)

AR by Jon Petter Gustafsson on behalf of the Authors (24 Jan 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Forest management may lead to long-term soil acidification due to the removal of base cations during harvest. By means of the HD-MINTEQ model, we compared the acidification effects of harvesting with the effects of historical acid rain at three forested sites in Sweden. The effects of harvesting on pH were predicted to be much smaller than those resulting from acid deposition during the 20th century. There were only very small changes in predicted weathering rates due to acid rain or harvest.