Bottling Spring Water from
a Serbian Mountain

Ćirić, Slavica; Milosevic, B.; Spasic, Z.; Ilić, Zoran

doi:10.15244/pjoes/75816

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“…Apart from aquifer chemistry, residence time may also affect groundwater chemistry by impacting dissolution rates. Precipitation amount and frequency affect not only flow paths activity and redistribution of groundwater but also its residence time in the aquifer, impacting carbonate dissolution and precipitation rates (Hem, 1985;Crossman et al, 2011;Lewandowski et al, 2015;Vystavna et al, 2020). Groundwater with a short transit time (1-3 years) or "young water" (Soulsby et al, 2015) can be particularly sensitive to changes in precipitation amount and frequency.…”

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A European map of groundwater pH and calcium

Hájek

Jíménez-Alfaro

Hájek

et al. 2021

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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Abstract. Water resources and associated ecosystems are becoming highly endangered due to ongoing global environmental changes. Spatial ecological modelling is a promising toolbox for understanding the past, present and future distribution and diversity patterns in groundwater-dependent ecosystems, such as fens, springs, streams, reed beds or wet grasslands. Still, the lack of detailed water chemistry maps prevents the use of reasonable models to be applied on continental and global scales. Being major determinants of biological composition and diversity of groundwater-dependent ecosystems, groundwater pH and calcium are of utmost importance. Here we developed an up-to-date European map of groundwater pH and Ca, based on 7577 measurements of near-surface groundwater pH and calcium distributed across Europe. In comparison to the existing European groundwater maps, we included several times more sites, especially in the regions rich in spring and fen habitats, and filled the apparent gaps in eastern and southeastern Europe. We used random forest models and regression kriging to create continuous maps of water pH and calcium at the continental scale, which is freely available also as a raster map (Hájek et al., 2020b; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4139912). Lithology had a higher importance than climate for both pH and calcium. The previously recognised latitudinal and altitudinal gradients were rediscovered with much refined regional patterns, as associated with bedrock variation. For ecological models of distribution and diversity of many terrestrial ecosystems, our new map based on field groundwater measurements is more suitable than maps of soil pH, which mirror not only bedrock chemistry but also vegetation-dependent soil processes.

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