Acid rain effects on living organisms.
2019
This article describes the acid rain effects on aquatic organisms and agricultural crops. Acid rain can harm species of some fish, reduce population numbers and decrease biodiversity. Low pH is directly toxic to fish and crops. In addition, low pH levels cause chronic stress that may not eliminate some species of fish, but leads to lower body weight and smaller size. Several species can tolerate some amount of acid, for example salamanders, pike and trout. Frogs and perch can tolerate water that is more acidic than abovementioned species. Acid rain has immediate effects on vegetable crops and make them damaged and dried. Blueberry is more acid resistant, than parsley, radish, rosemary and paprika. The study determined that freshwater habitants are more resistant to low pH rate than saline water organisms. Fig. 2, Ref. 7.
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