Acid rain causes slower growth, and injury in trees. Acid rain weakens trees by damaging their leaves, limiting the nutrients available to them, or exposing them to toxic substances slowly released from the soil. Quite often, injury or death of trees is a result of these effects of acid rain in combination with one or more additional threats.Acid rain has been implicated in forest and soil degradation in many areas of the Eastern U.S., especially high elevation forests of the Appalachian Mountains from Maine to Georgia.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Damage of Acid Rain
Acid rain causes slower growth, and injury in trees. Acid rain weakens trees by damaging their leaves, limiting the nutrients available to them, or exposing them to toxic substances slowly released from the soil. Quite often, injury or death of trees is a result of these effects of acid rain in combination with one or more additional threats.Acid rain has been implicated in forest and soil degradation in many areas of the Eastern U.S., especially high elevation forests of the Appalachian Mountains from Maine to Georgia.
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