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RECORD NUMBER: 2556 OF 2847Main Title | Status Report on Acid Precipitation and Its Biological Consequences as of April 1981. | |||||||||||
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Author | Cowling, E. B. ; | |||||||||||
CORP Author | North Carolina State Univ. at Raleigh. School of Forest Resources.;Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR. | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1982 | |||||||||||
Report Number | EPA/600/D-86/164; | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB86-231222 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Acidification ; Air pollution ; Water pollution ; Legislation ; Environmental impacts ; Sulfur dioxide ; Nitrogen ; Absorption ; pH ; Lakes ; Electric power plants ; Air masses ; Atmospheric circulation ; Acid precipitation | |||||||||||
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Collation | 24p | |||||||||||
Abstract | During the past several years, the phenomenon of acid precipitation and its biological consequences have become a subject of intense public interest. Numerous discussions and debates have been published in the press, in legislative and administrative hearings, and in the board rooms of industry. The purpose of the chapter is to provide a brief, up-to-date, carefully documented, and rigorously peer-reviewed summary of the present status of knowledge about the important environmental issue. |