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Previous studies1,9,10 have shown that upland areas of Britain with base-poor bedrock and soils are vulnerable to acid deposition and that different types of land use can lead to significant differences in the chemistry of streams draining similar lithologies. In particular, those streams draining areas of conifer forest are often more acidic and contain elevated levels of toxic dissolved aluminium compared with streams draining equivalent moorland areas.
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Bird, S.C., Brown, S.J., Vaughan, E. (1990). The influence of land management on stream water chemistry. In: Edwards, R.W., Gee, A.S., Stoner, J.H. (eds) Acid Waters in Wales. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1894-8_16
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