Acidification and Nitrogen Eutrophication of Austrian Forest Soils

Table 1

Austrian monitoring networks regarding the evaluation of soil acidification and nitrogen saturation, nitrogen deposition and bioindication of nitrogen deposition, and nutrition status. The location of the sample points is shown in Figures 5 and 6.

	Forest soils	Deposition	Spruce and pine needles	Mosses
Project title	Austrian forest soil monitoring system/BioSoil (EU)	Austrian deposition monitoring grid for forest ecosystem (ICP Forests); Federal deposition monitoring network	Austrian Bioindicator Grid	Monitoring of atmospheric pollution by mosses in Austria (UNECE ICP monitoring programme)
Samplings	1987 and 2007	1996–2009; 1984–2009	1983–2010	1991, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010
Number of sites	511 (1987); 139 (2007)	20/14	763	220