Benefits of deposition reduction for nature management; a nation-wide assessment of the relation between atmospheric deposition, ecological quality and avoidable management costs

Alterra was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) to estimate the additional costs made by nature reserve managers to mitigate the effects of atmospheric deposition. The costs of increasing deposition levels - or the benefits of reducing deposition levels - were calculated from the costs for nature management per Nature Target Type (NTT) for both the current and reduced deposition levels, which result in a similar ecological quality. For the NTTs within the clusters grassland, reed and roughland, and heathland model simulations were run usin... Mehr ...