Interesting statement in TCIA magazine article

[Serf Life]

Neat!

 

[Serf Life]

Took a minute to find it, those articles reminded me of a follow up on an acid rain study. https://northernwoodlands.org/discoveries/cause-and-wait-for-it-effect
So a bit different as industrial acid rain has other negative parts like increased aluminum toxicity, but perhaps some data would pertain.

I'm jumping a couple steps ahead as some may have considered adding buffering compounds for increased acid deposition from the epiphytes. The Hubbard Brook research forest in NH has some awesome long term acid rain studies as well as others, highly recommend reading some of the pubs if interested in ecosystem science.

 

[ATH]

I'd welcome some acidification here...we regularly measure pH 7.4-7.8 sometimes (rarely) getting up to 8.2. Not many trees that wouldn't be happier at 6.8 than 7.6. oh, and we are really well buffered with limestone parent material/bedrock.

I didn't read all those links, but I wonder what those ecosystems looked like historically? I gotta think more moss and lichen in milennia past.