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Anagha KS, Kuttippurath J. Surface ozone pollution-driven risks for the yield of major food crops under future climate change scenarios in India. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2025; 275:121390. [PMID: 40086574 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.121390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2025] [Revised: 03/11/2025] [Accepted: 03/12/2025] [Indexed: 03/16/2025]
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This study provides a comprehensive assessment of surface ozone (SurfO3) evolution in India under the future shared socio-economic pathway scenarios (SSPs) of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase-6 (CMIP6), and its implications for changes in relative yield loss (RYL) of wheat, rice and maize. Scenarios with insufficient efforts to reduce the emission of precursors (e.g. SSP3-7.0) lead to significant increases in RYL (∼20% for wheat and ∼7% for rice and maize) post-2050. Conversely, SSP1-2.6 and SSP2-4.5 help to minimise RYL by controlling emissions. Accumulated ozone above a threshold of 40 (AOT40) in the growth stages of crops may surpass safer limits (3 ppm.h) by six-fold in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) for rice and maize, and in Central India for wheat in the SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5 scenarios. Furthermore, climate penalty on SurfO3 is observed in rabi (winter: December-February) and post-kharif (post-monsoon: October-November) seasons, whereas kharif (summer: June-September) shows climate benefit in one model. Positive trends in climate penalties are observed in IGP during most seasons and in Central India during post-kharif and rabi. Wheat is most sensitive to emission pathways with high variability, while rice and maize show more stable projections. Undoubtedly, comprehensive strategies are required for crop yield enhancement, including stringent air pollution regulations, widespread adoption of clean energy, land use management and advancements in low-emission agricultural practices. Safeguarding agriculture productivity requires coordinated efforts to manage air quality and climate, ensuring a transition away from pathways like SSP3-7.0 and toward more sustainable, low-emission futures. Furthermore, efforts to address SurfO3-induced crop yield losses in India are vital for informing strategies to ensure global food security.
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- K S Anagha
- CORAL, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, India
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McHugh K, Cummins T, Aherne J. The threat from ozone to vegetation in Ireland. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 262:119974. [PMID: 39270962 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2024] [Revised: 08/28/2024] [Accepted: 09/08/2024] [Indexed: 09/15/2024]
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Ozone is the most damaging air pollutant to vegetation globally. Metrics of accumulated ozone above a concentration threshold (e.g. AOT40, ppb·h) have been widely used to assess ozone risk. However, there is growing consensus that accumulated Phytotoxic Ozone Dose (POD) above a receptor-specific critical stomatal flux threshold (y; nmol O3 m-2 s-1), expressed per unit of projected leaf area, provides a more reliable risk assessment, as it considers ozone entering the leaf (PODy, mmol m-2 leaf area). Few studies have assessed both concentration- and flux-based metrics using site-specific observations of ozone and meteorology. In this study we assessed the risk that ozone poses to five vegetation types across eight sites in Ireland during 2005-2021, using AOT40 and PODy risk metrics, and we predicted impacts using dose-response relationships. Long-term trends in both metrics were also assessed. The PODy critical level for vegetation protection was exceeded for all vegetation types, with exceedances most common at Atlantic coastal sites, and for tree species (beech POD1 15.7-25.7 mmol/m2 PLA). When PODy and AOT40 results were normalised based on their respective critical levels, predicted impacts were higher for PODy. There were significant increases in PODy for three vegetation types at rural sites during the study period, which also experienced increases in temperature and global solar radiation. The long-term trends were consistent with other European studies that show decreases in AOT40 and increases in PODy. While ozone concentrations in Ireland are relatively low (39-75 μg/m3 five-year average range), the humid climate and longer growing season may lead to elevated stomatal ozone uptake and thereby a risk to vegetation.
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- Keelan McHugh
- UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, D04 N2E5, Dublin, Ireland.
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- UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, D04 N2E5, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Environment, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, K9L 0G2, Canada
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Hoshika Y, Pollastrini M, Marzuoli R, Gerosa G, Marra E, Moura BB, Agathokleous E, Calatayud V, Feng Z, Sicard P, Paoletti E. Unraveling the difference of sensitivity to ozone between non-hybrid native poplar and hybrid poplar clones: A flux-based dose-response analysis. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024; 358:124524. [PMID: 38986760 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2024] [Revised: 06/19/2024] [Accepted: 07/08/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024]
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Poplars are economically important tree crops and biologically important model plants, which are known to be sensitive to ozone (O3). Although surface O3 is considered as a significant global environmental issue because of its phytotoxicity and greenhouse effect, the knowledge of the dose-response (DR) relationships in poplars for the assessment of O3 risk is still limited. Hence, this study aimed at collecting data of studies with manipulative O3 exposures of poplars within FACE (Free Air Concentration Enhancement) and OTC (Open-Top Chamber) facilities. The datasets contain studies on hybrid poplar clones and a non-hybrid native poplar (Populus nigra L.) reporting both AOT40 (Accumulated exposure Over a Threshold of 40 ppb) and POD1 (Phytotoxic Ozone Dose above a threshold of 1 nmol m-2 Projected Leaf Area [PLA] s-1) to compare exposure- and flux-based indices. As a result, linear regression analysis showed that the flux-based POD1 was better than the exposure-based AOT40 to explain the biomass response of poplars to O3. From the DR relationships, a critical level (CL) of 5.7 mmol m-2 POD1 has been derived corresponding to 4% biomass growth reduction for hybrid poplar clones, which can be considered very sensitive to O3, while the non-hybrid native poplar was less sensitive to O3 (CL: 10.3 mmol m-2 POD1), although the potential risk of O3 for this taxon is still high due to very high stomatal conductance. Moreover, the different experimental settings (OTC vs. FACE) have affected the AOT40-based DR relationships but not the POD1-based DR relationships, suggesting that poplar responses to O3 were principally explained by stomatal O3 uptake regardless of the different experimental settings and exposure patterns. These results highlight the importance of the flux-based approach, especially when scaling up from experimental datasets to the O3 risk assessment for poplars at the regional or global scale.
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- Yasutomo Hoshika
- Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Sede secondaria di Firenze, Via Madonna del Piano, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, 90133, Italy.
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- University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, Piazzale delle Cascine 28, Viale delle idee 30, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, 50144, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Mathematics and Physics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Via Garzetta 48, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Mathematics and Physics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Via Garzetta 48, Brescia, Italy
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- Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Sede secondaria di Firenze, Via Madonna del Piano, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Sede secondaria di Firenze, Via Madonna del Piano, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, 90133, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Carbon Source and Sink, China Meteorological Administration (ECSS-CMA), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China
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- Fundación CEAM, c/ Charles R. Darwin 14, Parque Tecnológico, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Carbon Source and Sink, China Meteorological Administration (ECSS-CMA), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China
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- ARGANS, Sophia-Antipolis, France; Institutul Naţional de Cercetare-Dezvoltare în Silvicultură"Marin Drăcea,", Voluntari, Romania
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- Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Sede secondaria di Firenze, Via Madonna del Piano, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, 90133, Italy
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Kittipornkul P, Thiravetyan P, Hoshika Y, Sorrentino B, Popa I, Leca S, Sicard P, Paoletti E, De Marco A. Surface ozone risk to human health and vegetation in tropical region: The case of Thailand. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 234:116566. [PMID: 37423361 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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Tropospheric ozone (O3) is a threat to vegetation and human health over the world, in particular in Asia. Knowledge on O3 impacts on tropical ecosystems is still very limited. An O3 risk assessment to crops, forests, and people from 25 monitoring stations across the tropical and subtropical Thailand during 2005-2018 showed that 44% of sites exceeded the critical levels (CLs) of SOMO35 (i.e., the annual Sum Of daily maximum 8-h Means Over 35 ppb) for human health protection. The concentration-based AOT40 CL (i.e., sum of the hourly exceedances above 40 ppb for daylight hours during the assumed growing season) was exceeded at 52% and 48% of the sites where the main crops rice and maize are present, respectively, and at 88% and 12% of the sites where evergreen or deciduous forests are present, respectively. The flux-based metric PODY (i.e., Phytotoxic Ozone Dose above a threshold Y of uptake) was calculated and was found to exceed the CLs at 1.0%, 1.5%, 20.0%, 1.5%, 0% and 68.0% of the sites where early rice, late rice, early maize, late maize, evergreen forests, and deciduous forests can grow, respectively. Trend analysis indicated that AOT40 increased over the study period (+5.9% year-1), while POD1 decreased (- 5.3% year-1), suggesting that the role of climate change in affecting the environmental factors that control stomatal uptake cannot be neglected. These results contribute novel knowledge on O3 threat to human health, forest productivity, and food security in tropical and subtropical areas.
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- Piyatida Kittipornkul
- Pilot Plant Development and Training Institute, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Bangkuntien), 49 Soi Tientalay 25, Bangkuntien, Bangkok, 10150, Thailand
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- School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, 10150, Thailand
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- Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- INCDS, 128 Eroilor Bvd., Voluntari, 077030, Romania
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- INCDS, 128 Eroilor Bvd., Voluntari, 077030, Romania
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- ARGANS, 260 Route du Pin Montard, 06410, Biot, France
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- Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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Tsai IC, Shu LS, Chen JP, Hsieh PR, Cheng CT. Projecting ozone impact on crop yield in Taiwan under climate warming. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 846:157437. [PMID: 35863568 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Ozone is a primary air pollutant that impairs photosynthesis and reduces crop yields, an effect that received little attention in Taiwan, especially under the context of climate warming. This study predicted the impact of surface O3 on cash crop yields, specifically in wheat, potatoes, and tomatoes, under 2 °C and 4 °C climate warming scenarios in Taiwan via high-resolution simulations. The simulated O3 concentration (daytime mean) over Taiwan's croplands during the growing seasons was around 35-52 ppb, and it increased by 0.9 and 2.1 ppb under 2 °C and 4 °C warming for wheat and potatoes. In contrast, more minor changes of around 0.4 ppb were found for tomatoes. The O3 concentrations were converted to AOT40 (Accumulated Ozone exposure over a threshold of 40 ppb) and POD3 (Phytotoxic Ozone Dose above a threshold of 3 nmol O3 m-2) metrics to estimate changes in relative yield (RY). The mean RYPOD3 (RYAOT40) reductions over irrigated cropland for wheat, tomatoes, and potatoes under current climate and O3-stress conditions are 27.5 % (19.1 %), 14.7 % (3.8 %), and 8.2 % (1.6 %), respectively. Under 2 °C warming, the additional reductions would be 2.7 % (1.8 %) for wheat, 4.1 % (0.3 %) for tomatoes, and 2.4 % (0.4 %) for potatoes; the values under 4 °C warming become 4.7 % (4.1 %) for wheat, 8.1 % (0.6 %) for tomatoes, and 5.2 % (0.8 %) for potatoes. The contribution of RYPOD3 reduction was separated into O3-induced and climate-induced effects. The former dominated the additional yield reduction under a 2 °C warming climate, yet, the latter prevailed under 4 °C warming. Further analysis indicated that the temperature rise enhances ozone uptake flux; still, the amplified water vapor deficit and more incoming solar radiation can offset it and weakens the overall meteorological effect, especially from 2 °C to 4 °C warming conditions. Such effects demonstrated a nonlinear effect related to the co-dependence of the ozone uptake flux, which requires attention in agriculture policymaking.
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- I-Chun Tsai
- Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- International Degree Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; International Degree Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
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- National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC
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- National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC
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Wang Y, Wild O, Ashworth K, Chen X, Wu Q, Qi Y, Wang Z. Reductions in crop yields across China from elevated ozone. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2022; 292:118218. [PMID: 34571069 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Exposure of crops to high concentrations of ozone can cause substantial reductions in yield that pose a serious threat to global food security. Here we provide comprehensive estimates of yield losses for key crops across China between 2014 and 2017 attributed to ozone using a number of new approaches. We use an air quality model at 5 km resolution and crop-specific dose-response functions developed for both concentration- and flux-based metrics. We bias correct modelled ozone concentrations and metrics using observations from more than 1000 locations. We find that on a 4-year average basis, production losses of key crops are 34-91 million metric tonnes (Mt/yr), dependent on the approach used, with highest losses in Henan province. At a national level, loss of winter wheat production derived using a China-specific dose-response function increased by 82% from 2014 to 2017, with large interannual variations in the North China Plain and in eastern China. Winter wheat losses estimated using flux-based functions, which require robust simulation of stomatal conductance and underlying vegetation physiology, are significantly lower, at 30 Mt/yr. We show that the definition of the growing season may have a greater impact on estimated losses than small biases in ozone surface concentrations. Although uncertainties remain, our findings demonstrate that increasing ozone concentrations have substantial adverse impacts on crop yields and threaten food security in China. It is important to control ozone concentrations to mitigate these negative impacts.
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- Yuanlin Wang
- The State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China; Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom.
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom
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- The State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China
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- College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China; Centre for Excellence in Urban Atmospheric Environment, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, 361021, China; College of Earth Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Eghdami H, Werner W, Büker P, Sicard P. Assessment of ozone risk to Central European forests: Time series indicates perennial exceedance of ozone critical levels. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 203:111798. [PMID: 34333015 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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In this study, the stomatal ozone (O3) fluxes were investigated at five low-elevation forest sites in Western Germany (Rhineland Palatinate) over the time period 1998-2019. The Phytotoxic Ozone Dose with an hourly threshold of uptake (Y), to represent the detoxification capacity of trees (POD1 in mmol m-2 per leaf area, with Y = 1 nmol O3 m-2 s-1), and the number of exceedances of the O3 critical level of 5.2 mmol O3 m-2 per leaf area for European beech and 9.2 mmol O3 m-2 per leaf area for Norway spruce were calculated by using the DO3SE model. A Principal Component Analysis revealed strong correlations between daily O3 concentrations, daytime O3 (for hours with global radiation exceeding 50 W m-2), POD1, global radiation, vapor pressure deficit and air temperature. Moreover, a significant correlation was obtained between POD1 and soil water content (SWC) at all sites (r = 0.51-0.74). The Random Forests Analysis confirmed that the SWC is the most important predictor of stomatal O3 fluxes. The soil water supply is very important for POD1 estimation, because drought decreases stomatal conductance, leading to a reduction of transpiration, as well as to lower O3 uptake through stomata. Between 1998 and 2019, the drier and warmer climate induced a soil drought (on average, SWC - 0.15 % per year) leading to lower stomatal O3 uptake by forests (- 0.36 mmol O3 m-2 per year). Hence, during growing seasons with sufficient water supply and often lower O3 levels compared to hot and dry periods, forests are at higher O3 risk than during hot and dry periods when the drought stress is more significant than O3 stress despite relatively higher O3 levels. Irrespective of these differences in O3 uptake between relatively cool and humid as compared to relatively hot and dry years in the study region, the Critical Level for O3 was exceeded in late spring/early summer (May/June) during all 22 years. Risk assessment for the protection of European forests, which is urgently needed due to the forests current critical state after several successive years of drought and exceedance of the O3 critical level in large areas of Europe, should therefore become flux-based to account for the inter-twined effects of drought and O3 on the physiology and health of forest trees in the region. For stomatal O3 fluxes estimation, a better soil water and leaf parameterization is needed e.g., by taking into account both O3- and drought-induced effects.
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- Hanieh Eghdami
- Department of Geobotany, University of Trier, 54296, Trier, Germany.
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- Department of Geobotany, University of Trier, 54296, Trier, Germany
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- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, D-53113, Bonn, Germany
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Moura BB, Brunetti C, Engela MRGDS, Hoshika Y, Paoletti E, Ferrini F. Experimental assessment of ozone risk on ecotypes of the tropical tree Moringa oleifera. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2021; 201:111475. [PMID: 34166663 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Revised: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Ozone (O3) is an oxidative air pollutant that affects plant growth. Moringa oleifera is a tree species distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions. This species presents high morphological plasticity, which increases its ability to tolerate stressful conditions, but with no O3 risk assessment calculated so far. The present study assessed the O3 risk to different M. oleifera ecotypes using exposure-based index (AOT40) or flux-based index (PODy - where y is a threshold of O3 uptake). PODy considers the O3 uptake through the stomata and the consequence of environmental climate conditions on stomatal conductance (gsto); thus, it is efficient in assessing O3 risk. Five M. oleifera ecotypes were subjected to ambient (Amb.); middle (Mid. X1.5), and High (x2.0) O3 concentrations for 77 days in a free-air controlled exposure facility (FACE). Leaf biomass (LB) was evaluated, and the biomass loss was projected assuming a clean atmosphere (10 ppb as 24 h O3 average). The gsto parameterization was calculated using the Jarvis-type multiplicative algorithm considering several climate factors, i.e., light intensity, air temperature, air vapor pressure deficit, and AOT40. Ozone exposure harmed the LB of all ecotypes. The high gsto (~559 mmol H2O m-2 s-1) can be considered the reason for the species' O3 sensitivity. M. oleifera is adapted to hot climate conditions, and gsto was restricted with air temperature (Tmin) below ~ 9 °C. As expected, the PODy index performed better than the AOT40 for estimating the O3 effect on biomass losses. We recommend a y threshold of 4 nmol m-2 s-1 to incorporate O3 effects on M. oleifera LB. To not exceed a 4% reduction of LB for any M. oleifera genotype, we recommend the critical levels of 1.1 mmol m-2 POD4.
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- Bárbara Baêsso Moura
- Department of Agriculture, Environment, Food, and Forestry, University of Florence, Viale Delle Idee, 30, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR), Via Madonna Del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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- Department of Agriculture, Environment, Food, and Forestry, University of Florence, Viale Delle Idee, 30, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP), National Research Council (CNR), Via Madonna Del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR), Via Madonna Del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR), Via Madonna Del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Environment, Food, and Forestry, University of Florence, Viale Delle Idee, 30, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP), National Research Council (CNR), Via Madonna Del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Betancourt-Odio A, Valencia D, Soffritti M, Budría S. An analysis of ozone pollution by using functional data: rural and urban areas of the Community of Madrid. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2021; 193:401. [PMID: 34109454 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-021-09180-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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This paper analyses the relationship between tropospheric ozone levels in rural and urban sites in the Spanish Community of Madrid (CM). The paper makes use of functional data and the Kendall's Tau functional statistic (KFT) to identify significant correlations between areas. The results are based on very detailed data, extracted from hourly records from 33 air-quality stations covering de CM during the period 2011-2018, producing more than 95,500 point observations. The results show a large degree of correlation between distant sites, whereas in a number of cases, they reveal very moderate correlations between adjacent sites. This pattern is suggestive of complex recirculation patterns.
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- Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Department of Economics and Business Administration, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Economics and Business Administration, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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Wu R, Agathokleous E, Feng Z. Novel ozone flux metrics incorporating the detoxification process in the apoplast: An application to Chinese winter wheat. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 767:144588. [PMID: 33429267 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A modified Ball-Berry-Leuning model of stomatal conductance was applied to data from fully open-air ozone (O3)-enrichment experiments with winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The O3 fluxes reaching both surface of cell wall (Fcw) and plasmalemma (Fpl) were estimated considering apoplastic ascorbate, a major scavenger of O3. The difference (D) between Fcw and Fpl was defined as detoxification capacity of O3 by reaction with ascorbate in the leaf apoplast (ASCapo). The accumulated stomatal O3 flux above D nmol O3 m-2 s-1 (AFstD) and the accumulated Fpl (AFpl) were calculated over the optimal integration period covering the whole reproductive development of wheat, and used to derive O3AFstD yield-response relationships in comparison with PODY (phytotoxic O3 dose above a threshold of Y nmol m-2 s-1) and AOT40 (accumulated O3 dose over a threshold of 40 ppb). There was a good agreement between the observed and modeled values of ASCapo and stomatal conductance. AFstD and AFpl performed better than PODY and AOT40 in terms of R2 and intercept. However, the AFstD metric was more suitable for assessing grain yield loss due to lower sensitivity of the regression slope to variations in the input parameters, compared with AFpl. The average critical level (CL) of four cultivars for 5% grain-yield reduction was 1.53 mmol m-2 using POD6 and 2.81 mmol m-2 using AFstD, with the latter being well above the POD6-derived value for European cultivars (1.3 mmol m-2). The minimum hourly averaged O3 concentration contributed to CLs was below 20 ppb according to AFstD, a value that is lower than that suggested by POD6 (≈27 ppb). O3 flux-response relationships and CLs on the basis of quantified detoxification capacity shall facilitate the understanding of the different degrees of susceptibility to O3 among species or cultivars, and improve the assessments of O3 impacts on plants.
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- Rongjun Wu
- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210044, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210044, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210044, China.
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Shang B, Xu Y, Peng J, Agathokleous E, Feng Z. High nitrogen addition decreases the ozone flux by reducing the maximum stomatal conductance in poplar saplings. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 272:115979. [PMID: 33168377 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Revised: 10/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Ground-level ozone (O3) and nitrogen (N) deposition are major environmental pollutants, often occurring concurrently. Ozone exposure- and flux-response relationships for tree biomass are used for regional O3 risk assessment. In order to investigate whether soil N addition affects stomatal O3 uptake of poplar, poplar saplings were exposed to treatment combinations of five O3 levels and four N addition levels. High N addition treatment reduced the accumulated stomatal O3 uptake in the leaf due to reduced maximum stomatal conductance (gs). Nitrogen addition also significantly reduced the steady-state light-saturated gs in August and September. Elevated O3 significantly reduced and N addition increased total plant biomass; however, there were no significant O3 × N interactions. The slopes of biomass-based O3 exposure- and flux-response relationships did not differ significantly among N treatments. The critical levels for a 5% biomass reduction were estimated at 15.4 ppm h and 17.1 mmol O3 m-2 projected leaf area (PLA) for Accumulated O3 exposure Over an hourly Threshold of 40 ppb (AOT40) and Phytotoxic Ozone Dose above a threshold 1 nmol O3 m-2 PLA s-1 (POD1). These results can facilitate the evaluations of O3 effect on the carbon-sink capacity and productivity of forest.
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- Bo Shang
- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China; State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.
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Economic impacts of ambient ozone pollution on wood production in Italy. Sci Rep 2021; 11:154. [PMID: 33420285 PMCID: PMC7794517 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80516-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Worldwide, tropospheric ozone (O3) is a potential threat to wood production, but our understanding of O3 economic impacts on forests is still limited. To overcome this issue, we developed an approach for integrating O3 risk modelling and economic estimates, by using the Italian forests as a case study. Results suggested a significant impact of O3 expressed in terms of stomatal flux with an hourly threshold of uptake (Y = 1 nmol O3 m−2 leaf area s−1 to represent the detoxification capacity of trees), i.e. POD1. In 2005, the annual POD1 averaged over Italy was 20.4 mmol m−2 and the consequent potential damage ranged from 790.90 M€ to 2.85 B€ of capital value (i.e. 255–869 € ha−1, on average) depending on the interest rate. The annual damage ranged from 31.6 to 57.1 M€ (i.e. 10–17 € ha−1 per year, on average). There was also a 1.1% reduction in the profitable forest areas, i.e. with a positive Forest Expectation Value (FEV), with significant declines of the annual national wood production of firewood (− 7.5%), timber pole (− 7.4%), roundwood (− 5.0%) and paper mill (− 4.8%). Results were significantly different in the different Italian regions. We recommend our combined approach for further studies under different economic and phytoclimatic conditions.
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Yuan X, Li S, Feng Z, Xu Y, Shang B, Fares S, Paoletti E. Response of isoprene emission from poplar saplings to ozone pollution and nitrogen deposition depends on leaf position along the vertical canopy profile. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2020; 265:114909. [PMID: 32540567 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2020] [Revised: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We investigated isoprene (ISO) emission and gas exchange in leaves from different positions along the vertical canopy profile of poplar saplings (Populus euramericana cv. '74/76'). For a growing season, plants were subjected to four N treatments, control (NC, no N addition), low N (LN, 50 kg N ha-1year-1), middle N (MN, 100 kg N ha-1year-1), high N (HN, 200 kg N ha-1year-1) and three O3 treatments (CF, charcoal-filtered ambient air; NF, non-filtered ambient air; NF + O3, NF + 40 ppb O3). Our results showed the effects of O3 and/or N on standardized ISO rate (ISOrate) and photosynthetic parameters differed along with the leaf position, with larger negative effects of O3 and positive effects of N on ISOrate and photosynthetic parameters in the older leaves. Expanded young leaves were insensitive to both treatments even at very high O3 concentration (67 ppb as 10-h average) and HN treatment. Significant O3 × N interactions were only found in middle and lower leaves, where ISOrate declined by O3 just when N was limited (NC and LN). With increasing light-saturated photosynthesis and chlorophyll content, ISOrate was reduced in the upper leaves but on the contrary increased in middle and lower leaves. The responses of ISOrate to AOT40 (accumulated exposure to hourly O3 concentrations > 40 ppb) and PODY (accumulative stomatal uptake of O3 > Y nmol O3 m-2 PLA s-1) were not significant in upper leaves, but ISOrate significantly decreased with increasing AOT40 or PODY under limited N supply in middle leaves but at all N levels in lower leaves. Overall, ISOrate changed along the vertical canopy profile in response to combined O3 and N exposure, a behavior that should be incorporated into multi-layer canopy models. Our results are relevant for modelling regional isoprene emissions under current and future O3 pollution and N deposition scenarios.
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- Xiangyang Yuan
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, 219 Ningliu Road, Nanjing, 210044, China
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- School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, 219 Ningliu Road, Nanjing, 210044, China; National Engineering Laboratory for VOCs Pollution Control Material & Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) - Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Via Valle della Quistione 27, 00166, Rome, Italy
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China; Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council, via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Agathokleous E, Feng Z, Oksanen E, Sicard P, Wang Q, Saitanis CJ, Araminiene V, Blande JD, Hayes F, Calatayud V, Domingos M, Veresoglou SD, Peñuelas J, Wardle DA, De Marco A, Li Z, Harmens H, Yuan X, Vitale M, Paoletti E. Ozone affects plant, insect, and soil microbial communities: A threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eabc1176. [PMID: 32851188 PMCID: PMC7423369 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc1176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Elevated tropospheric ozone concentrations induce adverse effects in plants. We reviewed how ozone affects (i) the composition and diversity of plant communities by affecting key physiological traits; (ii) foliar chemistry and the emission of volatiles, thereby affecting plant-plant competition, plant-insect interactions, and the composition of insect communities; and (iii) plant-soil-microbe interactions and the composition of soil communities by disrupting plant litterfall and altering root exudation, soil enzymatic activities, decomposition, and nutrient cycling. The community composition of soil microbes is consequently changed, and alpha diversity is often reduced. The effects depend on the environment and vary across space and time. We suggest that Atlantic islands in the Northern Hemisphere, the Mediterranean Basin, equatorial Africa, Ethiopia, the Indian coastline, the Himalayan region, southern Asia, and Japan have high endemic richness at high ozone risk by 2100.
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- Evgenios Agathokleous
- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, POB 111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
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- ARGANS, 260 route du Pin Montard, 06410 Biot, France
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- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Lab of Ecology and Environmental Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, Athens 11855, Greece
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- Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Girionys 53101 Kaunas District, Lithuania
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- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
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- Fundación CEAM, c/Charles R. Darwin 14, Parque Tecnológico, Paterna, Valencia 46980, Spain
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- Instituto de Botânica, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Ecologia, PO Box 68041, 04045-972 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Freie Universität Berlin-Institut für Biologie, Dahlem Center of Plant Sciences, Plant Ecology, Berlin, Germany
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- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Catalonia E-08193, Spain
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia E-08193, Spain
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- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore
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- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), C.R. Casaccia, S. Maria di Galeria, Rome I-00123, Italy
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China
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- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome I-00185, Italy
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- Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Janík R, Kubov M, Schieber B. The ground-level ozone concentration in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests in the West Carpathian Mountains. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2020; 192:233. [PMID: 32166430 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-020-8176-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The amount of ground-level ozone in beech forests depends not only on the pollution intensity but also on the other environmental factors. This paper presents the analysis of the concentrations of ground-level ozone during the growing season (April-September) of beech trees, which represent the main objects modifying the microclimate conditions inside the forest. The research was localized in the Kremnické vrchy Mountains in Slovakia and realized during the period of 2004-2013. The study was carried out on four research plots with different stand structure which was caused by various intensities of cuts. Our results showed that the maximum concentration of ozone during this period was observed on the plot where the original beech stand (without management intervention) grown-maximal concentration reached the values from 44.0 to 50.0 ppb (in the sub-periods 2004-2008 and 2009-2013, respectively). On the other hand, the minimum concentration, 14.0 ppb, was found immediately after the cutting in 2004 on the plot, where all adult trees were removed. A similar course was found within average values of the ozone concentration on the research plots. Despite the fact that the results did not confirm significant differences among the plots, temporal trend showed an increasing concentration of ozone on all plots during the study period.
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- Rastislav Janík
- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia.
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- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
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The grapevine (Vitis vinifera, L.) has been long since recognized as an ozone-sensitive plant. Ozone molecules can penetrate grapevine leaf tissues when the concentration of ozone in the atmosphere is high due to air pollution. This causes cell damage and interferes with photosynthetic mechanisms, subsequently slowing down plant growth and resulting in premature leaf senescence. Secondary effects include changes in biochemical processes that affect the chemical composition of the must and are likely to alter the quality of the wine. An experiment was conducted during two grapevine-growing seasons in 2010 and 2011 to gain knowledge of the effect of high ozone levels on the yield and on several biochemical characteristics of the plant which could influence the quality of the final product. These factors are economically important for agricultural production; this is especially true for Italy, which is one of the largest wine producers worldwide. The method used was a facility consisting of open top chambers operated at a vineyard in Angera (northern Italy). This facility permitted the study of the effects of different ozone levels. At the end of the experiment, the grapes were weighed and chemical analyses were carried out in order to understand the effects of ozone on the different characteristics of the grapes and on concentrations of several of its chemical substances. In particular, concentrations of yeast assimilable nitrogen, degrees Brix, pH, tartaric and malic acids, and polyphenols, including resveratrol, were considered, as these influence the quality of the wine. Parameters characterizing the different ozone levels were expressed in terms of ozone exposure (AOT40) and phytotoxic ozone dose (POD). The results showed that high ozone levels affect grapevine weight and thus its yield. In addition, the quality of the wine is affected by reductions of polyphenols which diminish the nutritional benefits of the product. In addition, these reductions cause the wine to have a more aggressive taste. These results emphasize the practical importance of the present study.
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Paoletti E, Alivernini A, Anav A, Badea O, Carrari E, Chivulescu S, Conte A, Ciriani ML, Dalstein-Richier L, De Marco A, Fares S, Fasano G, Giovannelli A, Lazzara M, Leca S, Materassi A, Moretti V, Pitar D, Popa I, Sabatini F, Salvati L, Sicard P, Sorgi T, Hoshika Y. Toward stomatal-flux based forest protection against ozone: The MOTTLES approach. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 691:516-527. [PMID: 31325852 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 06/30/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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European standards for the protection of forests from ozone (O3) are based on atmospheric exposure (AOT40) that is not always representative of O3 effects since it is not a proxy of gas uptake through stomata (stomatal flux). MOTTLES "MOnitoring ozone injury for seTTing new critical LEvelS" is a LIFE project aimed at establishing a permanent network of forest sites based on active O3 monitoring at remote areas at high and medium risk of O3 injury, in order to define new standards based on stomatal flux, i.e. PODY (Phytotoxic Ozone Dose above a threshold Y of uptake). Based on the first year of data collected at MOTTLES sites, we describe the MOTTLES monitoring station, together with protocols and metric calculation methods. AOT40 and PODY, computed with different methods, are then compared and correlated with forest-health indicators (radial growth, crown defoliation, visible foliar O3 injury). For the year 2017, the average AOT40 calculated according to the European Directive was even 5 times (on average 1.7 times) the European legislative standard for the protection of forests. When the metrics were calculated according to the European protocols (EU Directive 2008/50/EC or Modelling and Mapping Manual LTRAP Convention), the values were well correlated to those obtained on the basis of the real duration of the growing season (i.e. MOTTLES method) and were thus representative of the actual exposure/flux. AOT40 showed opposite direction relative to PODY. Visible foliar O3 injury appeared as the best forest-health indicator for O3 under field conditions and was more frequently detected at forest edge than inside the forest. The present work may help the set-up of further long-term forest monitoring sites dedicated to O3 assessment in forests, especially because flux-based assessments are recommended as part of monitoring air pollution impacts on ecosystems in the revised EU National Emissions Ceilings Directive.
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- E Paoletti
- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- CREA - Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Viale S. Margherita 80, 52100 Arezzo, Italy
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- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; ENEA, SSPT-PVS, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Santa Maria di Galeria (Rome), Italy
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- INCDS, 128 Eroilor Bvd., 077030 Voluntari, Romania
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- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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- INCDS, 128 Eroilor Bvd., 077030 Voluntari, Romania
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- CREA - Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Viale S. Margherita 80, 52100 Arezzo, Italy
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- GIEFS, 69 avenue des Hespérides, 06300 Nice, France
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- ENEA, SSPT-PVS, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Santa Maria di Galeria (Rome), Italy
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- CREA - Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Viale S. Margherita 80, 52100 Arezzo, Italy
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- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- INCDS, 128 Eroilor Bvd., 077030 Voluntari, Romania
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- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- CREA - Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Viale S. Margherita 80, 52100 Arezzo, Italy
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- INCDS, 128 Eroilor Bvd., 077030 Voluntari, Romania
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- INCDS, 128 Eroilor Bvd., 077030 Voluntari, Romania
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- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- CREA - Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Viale S. Margherita 80, 52100 Arezzo, Italy
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- ARGANS, 260 route du Pin Montard, 06410 Biot, France
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- CREA - Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Viale S. Margherita 80, 52100 Arezzo, Italy
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- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Feng Z, Shang B, Li Z, Calatayud V, Agathokleous E. Ozone will remain a threat for plants independently of nitrogen load. Funct Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Zhaozhong Feng
- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, School of Applied Meteorology, Institute of Ecology Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology Nanjing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco‐Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco‐Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, School of Applied Meteorology, Institute of Ecology Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology Nanjing China
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Anav A, De Marco A, Friedlingstein P, Savi F, Sicard P, Sitch S, Vitale M, Paoletti E. Growing season extension affects ozone uptake by European forests. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 669:1043-1052. [PMID: 30970453 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Revised: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2019] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Climate change significantly modifies terrestrial ecosystems and vegetation activity, yet little is known about how climate change and ozone pollution interact to affect forest health. Here we compared the trends of two metrics widely used to protect forests against negative impacts of ozone pollution, the AOT40 (Accumulated Ozone over Threshold of 40 ppb) which only depends on surface air ozone concentrations, and the POD (Phytotoxic Ozone Dose) which relies on the amount of ozone uptaken by plants through stomata. Using a chemistry transport model, driven by anthropogenic emission inventories, we found that European-averaged ground-level ozone concentrations significantly declined (-1.6%) over the time period 2000-2014, following successful control strategies to reduce the ozone precursors emission; as a consequence, the AOT40 metric declined (-22%). In contrast, climate change increased both growing season length (~7 days/decade) and stomatal conductance and thus enhanced the stomatal ozone uptake by forests (5.9%), leading to an overall increase of potential ozone damage on plants, despite the reduction in ozone concentrations. Our results suggest that stomatal-flux based strategies of forest protection against ozone in a changing climate require a proper consideration of the duration of the growing season with a better estimation of start and end of the growing season.
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- Alessandro Anav
- National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), Climate Modeling Laboratory, S. Maria di Galeria, Rome, Italy.
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- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), Climate Modeling Laboratory, S. Maria di Galeria, Rome, Italy
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- University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, UK
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, Italy
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- University of Exeter, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter, UK
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- University of Rome "Sapienza", Department of Environmental Biology, Rome, Italy
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Osborne S, Pandey D, Mills G, Hayes F, Harmens H, Gillies D, Büker P, Emberson L. New Insights into Leaf Physiological Responses to Ozone for Use in Crop Modelling. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 8:E84. [PMID: 30939811 PMCID: PMC6524376 DOI: 10.3390/plants8040084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Revised: 03/20/2019] [Accepted: 03/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Estimating food production under future air pollution and climate conditions in scenario analysis depends on accurately modelling ozone (O₃) effects on yield. This study tests several assumptions that form part of published approaches for modelling O₃ effects on photosynthesis and leaf duration against experimental data. In 2015 and 2016, two wheat cultivars were exposed in eight hemispherical glasshouses to O₃ ranging from 22 to 57 ppb (24 h mean), with profiles ranging from raised background to high peak treatments. The stomatal O₃ flux (Phytotoxic Ozone Dose, POD) to leaves was simulated using a multiplicative stomatal conductance model. Leaf senescence occurred earlier as average POD increased according to a linear relationship, and the two cultivars showed very different senescence responses. Negative effects of O₃ on photosynthesis were only observed alongside O₃-induced leaf senescence, suggesting that O₃ does not impair photosynthesis in un-senesced flag leaves at the realistic O₃ concentrations applied here. Accelerated senescence is therefore likely to be the dominant O₃ effect influencing yield in most agricultural environments. POD was better than 24 h mean concentration and AOT40 (accumulated O₃ exceeding 40 ppb, daylight hours) at predicting physiological response to O₃, and flux also accounted for the difference in exposure resulting from peak and high background treatments.
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- Stephanie Osborne
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK.
- Stockholm Environment Institute, Environment Department, University of York, York YO10 5NG, UK.
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- Stockholm Environment Institute, Environment Department, University of York, York YO10 5NG, UK.
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- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK.
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- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK.
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- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK.
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- Stockholm Environment Institute, Environment Department, University of York, York YO10 5NG, UK.
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- Stockholm Environment Institute, Environment Department, University of York, York YO10 5NG, UK.
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- Stockholm Environment Institute, Environment Department, University of York, York YO10 5NG, UK.
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Araminienė V, Sicard P, Anav A, Agathokleous E, Stakėnas V, De Marco A, Varnagirytė-Kabašinskienė I, Paoletti E, Girgždienė R. Trends and inter-relationships of ground-level ozone metrics and forest health in Lithuania. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 658:1265-1277. [PMID: 30677989 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2018] [Revised: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Lithuania is representative of maritime to continental climate, no water limitation, and moderate ground-level ozone (O3) pollution. We investigated the trends of meteorological variables and O3 and how these environmental conditions associate with tree health from 2001 onward. Ozone metrics for forest protection, based on Accumulated O3 exposure Over a Threshold of X ppb (AOTX) or on Phytotoxic O3 Dose over a Y threshold (PODY), were modeled at nine ICP-Forests plots over the time period 2001-2014. Tree-response indicators, i.e. crown defoliation and visible foliar O3 injury, were assessed during annual field surveys carried out at each ICP-Forests plot over the time period 2007-2017. Mann-Kendall and Sen statistical tests were applied to estimate changes over time of meteorological variables, response indicators and O3 metrics. Finally, the O3 metrics were correlated (Spearman test) to the response indicators over the common period 2007-2014. Over this time period, trend analyses revealed an increasingly hotter (+0.27 °C decade-1, on average) and drier climate (rainfall, -48 mm decade-1). A reduction was found for O3 annual mean (-0.28 ppb decade-1, on average) and AOT40 (-2540 ppb·h decade-1, on average) whereas an increase was found for POD0 (+0.40 mmol m-2 decade-1, on average). Visible foliar O3 injury increased (+0.17% decade-1), while an improvement of the crown conditions (-5.0% decade-1) was observed. AOT40 was significantly associated with crown defoliation while PODY and soil water content were correlated with visible foliar O3 injury. As visible foliar O3 injury was negligible in all the studied species, the results suggest that moderate O3 pollution (approximately 30 ppb as annual average) does not induce biologically significant effects on this forest vegetation under the current conditions, however the overall O3 risk (POD0) is expected to increase in the future under a hotter and drier climate.
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- Valda Araminienė
- Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Girionys, Kaunas District, Lithuania.
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- Hokkaido Research Centre, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Sapporo, Japan; Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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- Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Girionys, Kaunas District, Lithuania.
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- Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Xu Y, Feng Z, Shang B, Dai L, Uddling J, Tarvainen L. Mesophyll conductance limitation of photosynthesis in poplar under elevated ozone. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 657:136-145. [PMID: 30537576 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2018] [Revised: 11/06/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Finite mesophyll conductance (gm) reduces the rate of CO2 diffusion from the leaf intercellular space to the chloroplast and constitutes a major limitation of photosynthesis in trees. While it is well established that gm is decreased by stressors such as drought and high temperature, few studies have investigated if the phytotoxic air pollutant ozone (O3) affects gm. We quantified the relative importance of three different types of limitations of photosynthesis in poplar trees exposed to elevated O3: decreases in stomatal conductance, gm and biochemical photosynthetic capacity. The O3-induced reductions in light-saturated net photosynthesis were linked to significant declines in gm and biochemical photosynthetic capacity (in particular carboxylation). There was no significant effect of O3 on stomatal conductance. Of the O3-induced limitations on photosynthesis, gm limitation was by far the most important (-16%) while biochemical limitation (-8%) was rather small. Both limitations grew in magnitude over the study period and varied in response to leaf-specific O3 exposure. Our findings suggest that declines in gm may play a key role in limiting photosynthesis of plants exposed to elevated O3, an effect hitherto overlooked.
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- Yansen Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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Rai PK. Particulate matter tolerance of plants (APTI and API) in a biodiversity hotspot located in a tropical region: Implications for eco-control. PARTICULATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/02726351.2018.1527800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Prabhat Kumar Rai
- Phyto-technologies lab, Department of Environmental Science, School of Earth Sciences and Natural Resources Management, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India
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Sicard P, Agathokleous E, Araminiene V, Carrari E, Hoshika Y, De Marco A, Paoletti E. Should we see urban trees as effective solutions to reduce increasing ozone levels in cities? ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2018; 243:163-176. [PMID: 30172122 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.08.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Revised: 07/23/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Outdoor air pollution is considered as the most serious environmental problem for human health, associated with some million deaths worldwide per year. Cities have to cope with the challenges due to poor air quality impacting human health and citizen well-being. According to an analysis in the framework of this study, the annual mean concentrations of tropospheric ozone (O3) have been increasing by on average 0.16 ppb year-1 in cities across the globe over the time period 1995-2014. Green urban infrastructure can improve air quality by removing O3. To efficiently reduce O3 in cities, it is important to define suitable urban forest management, including proper species selection, with focus on the removal ability of O3 and other air pollutants, biogenic emission rates, allergenic effects and maintenance requirements. This study reanalyzes the literature to i) quantify O3 removal by urban vegetation categorized into trees/shrubs and green roofs; ii) rank 95 urban plant species based on the ability to maximize air quality and minimize disservices, and iii) provide novel insights on the management of urban green spaces to maximize urban air quality. Trees showed higher O3 removal capacity (3.4 g m-2 year-1 on average) than green roofs (2.9 g m-2 year-1 as average removal rate), with lower installation and maintenance costs (around 10 times). To overcome present gaps and uncertainties, a novel Species-specific Air Quality Index (S-AQI) of suitability to air quality improvement is proposed for tree/shrub species. We recommend city planners to select species with an S-AQI>8, i.e. with high O3 removal capacity, O3-tolerant, resistant to pests and diseases, tolerant to drought and non-allergenic (e.g. Acer sp., Carpinus sp., Larix decidua, Prunus sp.). Green roofs can be used to supplement urban trees in improving air quality in cities. Urban vegetation, as a cost-effective and nature-based approach, aids in meeting clean air standards and should be taken into account by policy-makers.
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- Hokkaido Research Centre, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Sapporo, Japan; Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Forestry, Girionys, Lithuania
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- Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Chen X, Zhao P, Hu Y, Zhao X, Ouyang L, Zhu L, Ni G. The sap flow-based assessment of atmospheric trace gas uptake by three forest types in subtropical China on different timescales. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 25:28431-28444. [PMID: 30088244 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-018-2891-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2018] [Accepted: 08/01/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Assessing the uptake of trace gases by forests contributes to understanding the mechanisms of gas exchange between vegetation and the atmosphere and to evaluating the potential risk of these pollutant gases to forests. In this study, the multi-timescale characteristics of the stomatal uptake of NO, NO2, SO2 and O3 by Schima superba, Eucalyptus citriodora and Acacia auriculiformis were investigated by continuous sap flow measurements for a 3-year period. The peak canopy stomatal conductance (GC) for these three species appeared between 9:00 and 12:00, which was jointly regulated by the vapour pressure deficit (VPD) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). Additionally, annual and seasonal variations in the stomatal uptake of trace gases for these three tree species suggested that there was a combination effect between canopy stomatal conductance and ambient concentration on the uptake of trace gases. Furthermore, the result demonstrated that the trace gas absorption capacities among these three forest types followed the order of S. superba > E. citriodora > A. auriculiformis. The findings of this study have theoretical significance and application value in assessing air purification and the risk of harm to forests in Southern China.
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- Xia Chen
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People's Republic of China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People's Republic of China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People's Republic of China
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Zhang L, Hoshika Y, Carrari E, Badea O, Paoletti E. Ozone risk assessment is affected by nutrient availability: Evidence from a simulation experiment under free air controlled exposure (FACE). ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2018; 238:812-822. [PMID: 29627751 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.03.102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Revised: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Assessing ozone (O3) risk to vegetation is crucial for informing policy making. Soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) availability could change stomatal conductance which is the main driver of O3 uptake into a leaf. In addition, the availability of N and P could influence photosynthesis and growth. We thus postulated that the sensitivity of plants to O3 may be changed by the levels of N and P in the soil. In this study, a sensitive poplar clone (Oxford) was subject to two N levels (N0, 0 kg N ha-1; N80, 80 kg N ha-1), three P levels (P0, 0 kg P ha-1; P40, 40 kg P ha-1; P80, 80 kg P ha-1) and three levels of O3 exposure (ambient concentration, AA; 1.5 × AA; 2.0 × AA) for a whole growing season in an O3 free air controlled exposure (FACE) facility. Flux-based (POD0 to 6) and exposure-based (W126 and AOT40) dose-response relationships were fitted and critical levels (CLs) were estimated for a 5% decrease of total annual biomass. It was found that N and P availability modified the dose-response relationships of biomass responses to O3. Overall, the N supply decreased the O3 CLs i.e. increased the sensitivity of poplar to O3. Phosphorus alleviated the O3-caused biomass loss and increased the CL. However, such mitigation effects of P were found only in low N and not in high N conditions. In each nutritional treatment, similar performance was found between flux-based and exposure-based indices. However, the flux-based approach was superior, as compared to exposure indices, to explain the biomass reduction when all nutritional treatments were pooled together. The best O3 metric for risk assessments was POD4, with 4.6 mmol m-2 POD4 as a suitable CL for Oxford poplars grown under various soil N and P conditions.
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- Lu Zhang
- College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Northeast Agricultural University, Changjiang Road 600, 150030, Harbin, China; Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council of Italy, Via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019, Florence, Italy
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- Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council of Italy, Via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019, Florence, Italy.
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- Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council of Italy, Via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019, Florence, Italy
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- INCDS, 13 Septembrie, sector 5, 050711, Bucarest, Romania
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- Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council of Italy, Via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019, Florence, Italy
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Li P, De Marco A, Feng Z, Anav A, Zhou D, Paoletti E. Nationwide ground-level ozone measurements in China suggest serious risks to forests. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2018; 237:803-813. [PMID: 29128249 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2017] [Revised: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 11/01/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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We processed hourly ozone (O3) concentrations collected in 2015 and in 2016 by a network of 1497 stations across China, with the main aim of assessing the risk that present ambient O3 exposure is posing to Chinese forests. Our results indicate that the values of the metrics AOT40 (the accumulated hourly O3 concentrations above 40 ppb during daylight hours) recommended as European Union standard, and W126 (the sum of weighted hourly concentrations from 8:00 to 20:00) recommended as USA standard for forest protection, exceeded the critical levels (5 ppm h across 6 months for AOT40 and 7-21 ppm h over 3 months for W126) on average by 5.1 and 1.2 times, respectively. N100 showed on average 65 annual exceedances of 100 ppb as hourly value. The 12-h and 24-h averages showed a small difference, suggesting high concentrations also at night. Risk was higher for the northern temperate climate than for the southern tropical and sub-tropical climates, and overall for the northern regions than for the southern regions. Higher risk occurred in the non-urban areas than in the urban areas in northern, south-west and north-west China, whereas risk was higher at urban areas in eastern and southern China. The overall results of this first nationwide assessment suggest a significant risk for forests over the entire China and warrant for urgent measures for controlling O3 precursor emissions and establishing standards of protection.
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- Pin Li
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian Distract, Beijing, 100085, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijingshan Disctrict, Beijing 100049, China
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- ENEA Casaccia, Via Anguillarese 31, Rome, Italy; National Research Council, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian Distract, Beijing, 100085, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijingshan Disctrict, Beijing 100049, China.
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- ENEA Casaccia, Via Anguillarese 31, Rome, Italy; National Research Council, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian Distract, Beijing, 100085, China; National Research Council, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Paoletti E, De Marco A, Anav A, Gasparini P, Pompei E. Five-year volume growth of European beech does not respond to ozone pollution in Italy. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 25:8233-8239. [PMID: 28540544 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-9264-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2017] [Accepted: 05/10/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A unique database of stand volume growth, estimated as periodic annual volume increment (in m3 ha-1 per year over the period 2001-2005) from 728 European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) sites distributed across Italy, was used to assess the effects of ambient ozone (O3), expressed as annual average (M24), accumulated exposure above a 40 ppb hourly threshold (AOT40), and total stomatal ozone flux (POD0). Growth data were from the National forest inventory of Italy, while climate data and ozone concentrations were computed by the WRF and CHIMERE models, respectively. Results show that the growth increased with increasing solar radiation and air temperature and decreased with increasing number of cold days, while effects of soil water content and O3 were not significant. In contrast, the literature results suggest that European beech is sensitive to both drought and O3. Ozone levels resulted to be very high (48 ppb M24, 51,200 ppb h AOT40, 21.08 mmol m-2 POD0, on average) and thus able to potentially affect European beech growth. We hypothesize that the high-frequency signals of soil water and O3 got lost when averaged over 5 years and recommended finer time-resolution investigations and inclusion of other factors of variability, e.g., thinning, tree age, and size.
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- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forest Policies, Via XX Settembre 20, Rome, Italy
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Anav A, Liu Q, De Marco A, Proietti C, Savi F, Paoletti E, Piao S. The role of plant phenology in stomatal ozone flux modeling. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:235-248. [PMID: 28722275 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2017] [Accepted: 06/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Plant phenology plays a pivotal role in the climate system as it regulates the gas exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere. The uptake of ozone by forest is estimated through several meteorological variables and a specific function describing the beginning and the termination of plant growing season; actually, in many risk assessment studies, this function is based on a simple latitude and topography model. In this study, using two satellite datasets, we apply and compare six methods to estimate the start and the end dates of the growing season across a large region covering all Europe for the year 2011. Results show a large variability between the green-up and dormancy dates estimated using the six different methods, with differences greater than one month. However, interestingly, all the methods display a common spatial pattern in the uptake of ozone by forests with a marked change in the magnitude, up to 1.9 TgO3 /year, and corresponding to a difference of 25% in the amount of ozone that enters the leaves. Our results indicate that improved estimates of ozone fluxes require a better representation of plant phenology in the models used for O3 risk assessment.
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- Alessandro Anav
- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), C.R. Casaccia, S. Maria di Galeria, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis (CREA) - Research Centre for the Soil-Plant System, Rome, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis (CREA) - Research Centre for the Soil-Plant System, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Braun S, Achermann B, De Marco A, Pleijel H, Karlsson PE, Rihm B, Schindler C, Paoletti E. Epidemiological analysis of ozone and nitrogen impacts on vegetation - Critical evaluation and recommendations. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 603-604:785-792. [PMID: 28460840 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2016] [Revised: 02/25/2017] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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For human health studies, epidemiology has been established as important tool to examine factors that affect the frequency and distribution of disease, injury, and other health-related events in a defined population, serving the purpose of establishing prevention and control programs. On the other hand, gradient studies have a long tradition in the research of air pollution effects on plants. While there is no principal difference between gradient and epidemiological studies, the former address more one-dimensional transects while the latter focus more on populations and include more experience in making quantitative predictions, in dealing with confounding factors and in taking into account the complex interplay of different factors acting at different levels. Epidemiological analyses may disentangle and quantify the contributions of different predictor variables to an overall effect, e.g. plant growth, and may generate hypotheses deserving further study in experiments. Therefore, their use in ecosystem research is encouraged. This article provides a number of recommendations on: (1) spatial and temporal aspects in preparing predictor maps of nitrogen deposition, ozone exposure and meteorological covariates; (2) extent of a dataset required for an analysis; (3) choice of the appropriate regression model and conditions to be satisfied by the data; (4) selection of the relevant explanatory variables; (5) treatment of interactions and confounding factors; and (6) assessment of model validity.
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- Sabine Braun
- Institute for Applied Plant Biology, Sandgrubenstrasse 25, 4124 Schönenbuch, Switzerland.
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- Federal Office for the Environment, 3003 Berne, Switzerland.
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- University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, P.O. Box 461, SE-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Swedish Environmental Research Institute, P.O. Box 53021, SE-40014 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Meteotest, Fabrikstrasse 14, 3012 Berne, Switzerland.
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- CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Zhang W, Feng Z, Wang X, Liu X, Hu E. Quantification of ozone exposure- and stomatal uptake-yield response relationships for soybean in Northeast China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 599-600:710-720. [PMID: 28494296 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Revised: 04/28/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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High ground-level O3 is a new threat to agricultural production in Northeast China with the increasing ambient O3 concentration. Little is known about its impacts on soybean production in this key agricultural region. Accumulated O3 exposure-response and stomatal O3 flux-response relationships were developed during two continuous growing seasons to evaluate O3-induced yield reduction of four typical soybean cultivars in Northeast China. Results showed that critical levels of AOT40 (accumulated hourly O3 concentrations over a threshold of 40nmol·mol-1), SUM06 (sum of all hourly average O3 concentrations over 0.06μmol·mol-1) and W126 (sum of O3 concentrations weighted by a sigmoidal function) in relation to 5% reduction in relative seed yield were 4.2, 7.6 and 6.8μmol·mol-1·h, respectively. The effect of O3 on plants was influenced by leaf position in canopy. An improved Jarvis stomatal conductance model including leaf (node) position fitted well with field measurements. The best linear relationship between stomatal O3 flux and relative soybean yield was obtained when phytotoxic ozone dose was integrated over a threshold of 9.6nmol·m-2·s-1 (POD9.6) to represent the detoxification capacity of soybean. POD9.6 and the commonly used POD6 in relation to 5% reduction in relative seed yield of soybean were 0.9mmol·m-2 and 1.8mmol·m-2, respectively. O3 concentrations above ~38nmol·mol-1 contributed to POD9.6 and caused seed yield loss in soybean. Current annual yield loss of soybean at ambient O3 was estimated to range between 23.4% and 30.2%. The O3 dose-response relationships and corresponding thresholds obtained here will benefit regional O3 risk assessment on soybean production in Northeast China.
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- Weiwei Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150081, China
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- Institute of Resources and Environmental Sciences, School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
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Li P, Feng Z, Catalayud V, Yuan X, Xu Y, Paoletti E. A meta-analysis on growth, physiological, and biochemical responses of woody species to ground-level ozone highlights the role of plant functional types. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2017; 40:2369-2380. [PMID: 28744869 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2017] [Revised: 07/15/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The carbon-sink strength of temperate and boreal forests at midlatitudes of the northern hemisphere is decreased by ozone pollution, but knowledge on subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests is missing. Taking the dataset from Chinese studies covering temperate and subtropical regions, effects of elevated ozone concentration ([O3 ]) on growth, biomass, and functional leaf traits of different types of woody plants were quantitatively evaluated by meta-analysis. Elevated mean [O3 ] of 116 ppb reduced total biomass of woody plants by 14% compared with control (mean [O3 ] of 21 ppb). Temperate species from China were more sensitive to O3 than those from Europe and North America in terms of photosynthesis and transpiration. Significant reductions in chlorophyll content, chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, and ascorbate peroxidase induced significant injury to photosynthesis and growth (height and diameter). Importantly, subtropical species were significantly less sensitive to O3 than temperate ones, whereas deciduous broadleaf species were significantly more sensitive than evergreen broadleaf and needle-leaf species. These findings suggest that carbon-sink strength of Chinese forests is reduced by present and future [O3 ] relative to control (20-40 ppb). Given that (sub)-tropical evergreen broadleaved species dominate in Chinese forests, estimation of the global carbon-sink constraints due to [O3 ] should be re-evaluated.
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- Pin Li
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Fundación CEAM, c/Charles R. Darwin 14, Parque Tecnológico, Paterna, Valencia, 46980, Spain
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
- National Research Council, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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Agathokleous E, Saitanis CJ, Burkey KO, Ntatsi G, Vougeleka V, Mashaheet AM, Pallides A. Application and further characterization of the snap bean S156/R123 ozone biomonitoring system in relation to ambient air temperature. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 580:1046-1055. [PMID: 27993470 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2016] [Revised: 12/07/2016] [Accepted: 12/09/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Increased mixing ratios of ground-level ozone (O3) threaten individual plants, plant communities and ecosystems. In this sense, O3 biomonitoring is of great interest. The O3-sensitive S156 and the O3-tolerant R123 genotypes of snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) have been proposed as a potential tool for active biomonitoring of ambient O3. In the present study, an O3 biomonitoring was conducted, with the S156/R123 tool, along with a monitoring of O3 and other environmental conditions in an urban area in Athens, Greece, during the growing seasons of 2012 and 2013. Plant yield was evaluated to assess the effectiveness of AOT40 in interpreting O3-induced phytotoxicity. Across the two genotypes, an approximately two times lower total number of pods - and consequently lower bulk mass of seeds - was found in 2012 than in 2013, although there was no significant difference in the final AOT40 between the two years. No significant differences were observed in the stomatal density or conductance between the two genotypes, whereas it was estimated that, in both genotypes, the abaxial leaf surface contributes 2.7 fold to O3 intake in comparison to the adaxial one. By testing the role of ambient air temperature in outdoor plant environment chambers (OPECs), it was found that increased temperature limits mature pod formation and complicates interpretation of O3 impacts in terms of S156/R123 yields ratios. This is the first study providing evidence for a hormetic response of plants to ambient air temperature. This study also points out the complexity of using yield as a measure of O3 impact across different environments with the snap bean system, whereas visible foliar injury is more consistently related to O3 effects.
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- Evgenios Agathokleous
- Silviculture and Forest Ecological Studies, School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8689, Japan.
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- Lab of Ecology and Environmental Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, Votanikos, Athens, Greece.
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- Plant Science Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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- Lab. of Vegetable Production, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, Votanikos, Athens, Greece.
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- Lab of Ecology and Environmental Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, Votanikos, Athens, Greece
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- Plant Science Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Raleigh, NC, USA; Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt.
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- Plant Improvement Section, Agricultural Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Nicosia 1516, Cyprus.
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Li P, Calatayud V, Gao F, Uddling J, Feng Z. Differences in ozone sensitivity among woody species are related to leaf morphology and antioxidant levels. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 36:1105-1116. [PMID: 27217527 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpw042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2016] [Accepted: 04/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Ozone (O3) sensitivity varies greatly among plant species. Leaf traits such as stomatal conductance, antioxidant capacity and leaf morphology and anatomy may play important roles in controlling this variation, but the relative contributions of each trait remain elusive. In this study, we examined the differences in O3 sensitivity among 29 deciduous and evergreen woody species used for urban greening in China in an open-top chamber experiment. Elevated O3 caused visible injury and reductions in net photosynthesis, and these effects differed significantly among species. The deciduous species Sorbaria sorbifolia, Hibiscus syriacus and Fraxinus chinensis were the most sensitive, while evergreen species ranked among the most tolerant. O3 sensitivity was linked to both low leaf mass per area (LMA) and low leaf area-based antioxidant levels, but not to variation in leaf mass-based antioxidant levels or stomatal conductance. The well-known and easily measured leaf trait LMA thus represents a potentially useful metric for O3 risk assessment and for selecting appropriate species for urban greening in O3-polluted areas.
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- Pin Li
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China Fundación CEAM, c/Charles R. Darwin 14, Parque Tecnológico, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China
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Sicard P, Serra R, Rossello P. Spatiotemporal trends in ground-level ozone concentrations and metrics in France over the time period 1999-2012. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2016; 149:122-144. [PMID: 27200478 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Revised: 04/30/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The hourly ozone (O3) data from 332 background monitoring stations, spread in France, were analyzed over the period 1999-2012 and short-term trends were calculated. In the current climate change context, the calculation of human health- and vegetation-relevant metrics, and of associated trends, provides a consistent method to establish proper and effective policies to reduce the adverse O3 effects. The generation of optimal O3 maps, for risk and exposure assessment, is challenging. To overcome this issue, starting from a set of stations, a hybrid regression-interpolation approach was proposed. Annual surface O3 metrics, O3 human health metrics (number of exceedances of daily maximum 8-h values greater than 60 ppb and SOMO35) and O3 vegetation impact metrics (AOT40 for vegetation and forests) were investigated at individual sites. Citizens are more exposed to high O3 levels in rural areas than people living in the cities. The annual mean concentrations decreased by -0.12ppbyear(-1) at rural stations, and the significant reduction at 67% of stations, particularly during the warm season, in the number of episodic high O3 concentrations (e.g. 98th percentile, -0.19ppbyear(-1)) can be associated with the substantial reductions in NOx and VOCs emissions in the EU-28 countries since the early 1990s Inversely, the O3 background level is rising at 76% of urban sites (+0.14ppbyear(-1)), particularly during the cold period. This rise can be attributed to increases in imported O3 by long-range transport and to a low O3 titration by NO due to the reduction in local NOx emissions. The decrease in health-related and vegetation-relevant O3 metrics, at almost all stations, is driven by decreases in regional photochemical O3 formation and in peak O3 concentrations. The short-term trends highlight that the threat to population and vegetation declined between 1999 and 2012 in France, demonstrating the success of European control strategies over the last 20 years. However, for all exposure metrics, the issue of non-attainment of the target value for O3 persists in comparison with the objectives of air quality directives. The region at highest O3 risk is the South-eastern France. This study contains new information on the i) spatial distribution of surface O3 concentration, ii) exceedances and iii) trends to define more suitable standards for human health and environmental protection in France.
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- Pierre Sicard
- ACRI-HE, 260 Route du Pin Montard, BP 234, 06904 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France.
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- ACRI-HE, 260 Route du Pin Montard, BP 234, 06904 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France
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Anav A, De Marco A, Proietti C, Alessandri A, Dell'Aquila A, Cionni I, Friedlingstein P, Khvorostyanov D, Menut L, Paoletti E, Sicard P, Sitch S, Vitale M. Comparing concentration-based (AOT40) and stomatal uptake (PODY) metrics for ozone risk assessment to European forests. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2016; 22:1608-1627. [PMID: 26492093 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2015] [Revised: 10/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/16/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Tropospheric ozone (O3) produces harmful effects to forests and crops, leading to a reduction of land carbon assimilation that, consequently, influences the land sink and the crop yield production. To assess the potential negative O3 impacts to vegetation, the European Union uses the Accumulated Ozone over Threshold of 40 ppb (AOT40). This index has been chosen for its simplicity and flexibility in handling different ecosystems as well as for its linear relationships with yield or biomass loss. However, AOT40 does not give any information on the physiological O3 uptake into the leaves since it does not include any environmental constraints to O3 uptake through stomata. Therefore, an index based on stomatal O3 uptake (i.e. PODY), which describes the amount of O3 entering into the leaves, would be more appropriate. Specifically, the PODY metric considers the effects of multiple climatic factors, vegetation characteristics and local and phenological inputs rather than the only atmospheric O3 concentration. For this reason, the use of PODY in the O3 risk assessment for vegetation is becoming recommended. We compare different potential O3 risk assessments based on two methodologies (i.e. AOT40 and stomatal O3 uptake) using a framework of mesoscale models that produces hourly meteorological and O3 data at high spatial resolution (12 km) over Europe for the time period 2000-2005. Results indicate a remarkable spatial and temporal inconsistency between the two indices, suggesting that a new definition of European legislative standard is needed in the near future. Besides, our risk assessment based on AOT40 shows a good consistency compared to both in-situ data and other model-based datasets. Conversely, risk assessment based on stomatal O3 uptake shows different spatial patterns compared to other model-based datasets. This strong inconsistency can be likely related to a different vegetation cover and its associated parameterizations.
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- Alessandro Anav
- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK
- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), C.R. Casaccia, S. Maria di Galeria, Rome, 00123, Italy
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- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), C.R. Casaccia, S. Maria di Galeria, Rome, 00123, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, 00185, Italy
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- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), C.R. Casaccia, S. Maria di Galeria, Rome, 00123, Italy
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- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), C.R. Casaccia, S. Maria di Galeria, Rome, 00123, Italy
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- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), C.R. Casaccia, S. Maria di Galeria, Rome, 00123, Italy
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- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK
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- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, 91128, France
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- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, 91128, France
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- Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Italy
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- ACRI-HE, 260 route du Pin Montard, BP 234, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, 06904, France
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, 00185, Italy
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Niu J, Zhao P, Sun Z, Zhu L, Ni G, Zeng X, Zhang Z, Zhao X, Zhao P, Gao J, Hu Y, Zeng X, Ouyang L. Stomatal uptake of O3 in a Schima superba plantation in subtropical China derived from sap flow measurements. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2016; 545-546:465-475. [PMID: 26760267 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2015] [Revised: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 12/23/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Canopy stomatal ozone (O3) flux (Fst,O3) in a plantation of Schima superba, an ecologically and economically important evergreen pioneer tree species in subtropical China, was quantified based on sap flow measurements during a 2-year period. Mean Fst,O3 and accumulated Fst,O3 (AFst0) were significantly higher in wet seasons from April to September (4.62 nmol m(-2) s(-1) and 35.37 mmol m(-2), respectively) than in dry seasons from October to March (3.90 nmol m(-2) s(-1) and 24.15 mmol m(-1), respectively), yet comparable between the 2 years of the experiment, being 4.23 nmol m(-2) s(-1) and 58.23 mmol m(-2) in April 2013-March 2014 and 4.29 nmol m(-2) s(-1) and 60.80 mmol m(-2) in April 2014-March 2015, respectively. At the diurnal scale, Fst,O3 generally peaked in the early to middle afternoon hours (13:00-15:00), while the maximum stomatal conductance (Gst,O3) typically occurred in the middle to late morning hours (09:00-11:00). Monthly integrated AFst0 reached the maximum in July, although accumulated O3 exposure (SUM0) was highest in October. Seasonally or yearly, the accumulated O3 doses, either exposure-based or flux-based, notably exceeded the currently adopted critical thresholds for the protection of forest trees. These results, on the one hand, demonstrated the decoupling between the stomatal uptake of O3 and its environmental exposure level; on the other hand, indicated the potential O3 risk for S. superba in the experimental site. Therefore, the present study endorses the use of sap flow measurements as a feasible tool for estimating Fst,O3, and the transition from the exposure-based toward flux-based metrics for assessing O3 risk for forest trees. Further studies are urgently needed to relate stomatal O3 uptake doses with tree growth reductions for an improved understanding of O3 effects on trees under natural conditions.
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- Junfeng Niu
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 523, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China
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Sicard P, De Marco A, Dalstein-Richier L, Tagliaferro F, Renou C, Paoletti E. An epidemiological assessment of stomatal ozone flux-based critical levels for visible ozone injury in Southern European forests. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2016; 541:729-741. [PMID: 26437347 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Revised: 09/21/2015] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Southern forests are at the highest ozone (O3) risk in Europe where ground-level O3 is a pressing sanitary problem for ecosystem health. Exposure-based standards for protecting vegetation are not representative of actual field conditions. A biologically-sound stomatal flux-based standard has been proposed, although critical levels for protection still need to be validated. This innovative epidemiological assessment of forest responses to O3 was carried out in 54 plots in Southeastern France and Northwestern Italy in 2012 and 2013. Three O3 indices, namely the accumulated exposure AOT40, and the accumulated stomatal flux with and without an hourly threshold of uptake (POD1 and POD0) were compared. Stomatal O3 fluxes were modeled (DO3SE) and correlated to measured forest-response indicators, i.e. crown defoliation, crown discoloration and visible foliar O3 injury. Soil water content, a key variable affecting the severity of visible foliar O3 injury, was included in DO3SE. Based on flux-effect relationships, we developed species-specific flux-based critical levels (CLef) for forest protection against visible O3 injury. For O3 sensitive conifers, CLef of 19 mmol m(-2) for Pinus cembra (high O3 sensitivity) and 32 mmol m(-2) for Pinus halepensis (moderate O3 sensitivity) were calculated. For broadleaved species, we obtained a CLef of 25 mmol m(-2) for Fagus sylvatica (moderate O3 sensitivity) and of 19 mmol m(-2) for Fraxinus excelsior (high O3 sensitivity). We showed that an assessment based on PODY and on real plant symptoms is more appropriated than the concentration-based method. Indeed, POD0 was better correlated with visible foliar O3 injury than AOT40, whereas AOT40 was better correlated with crown discoloration and defoliation (aspecific indicators). To avoid an underestimation of the real O3 uptake, we recommend the use of POD0 calculated for hours with a non-null global radiation over the 24-h O3 accumulation window.
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- Pierre Sicard
- ACRI-HE, 260 route du Pin Montard, BP 234, 06904 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France.
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- ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), 76, Lungotevere Thaon de Revel, Rome, Italy
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- GIEFS (Groupe International d'Etudes des Forêts Sud-européennes), 60, Avenue des Hespérides, 06300 Nice, France
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- IPLA (Istituto per le Piante da Legno e l'Ambiente), Corso Casale 476, 10132 Turin, Italy
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- ACRI-HE, 260 route du Pin Montard, BP 234, 06904 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France
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- IPSP-CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy
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Hu E, Gao F, Xin Y, Jia H, Li K, Hu J, Feng Z. Concentration- and flux-based ozone dose-response relationships for five poplar clones grown in North China. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2015; 207:21-30. [PMID: 26340296 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.08.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2015] [Revised: 08/14/2015] [Accepted: 08/20/2015] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Concentration- and flux-based O3 dose-response relationships were developed for poplars in China. Stomatal conductance (gs) of five poplar clones was measured to parameterize a Jarvis-type multiplicative gs model. The maximum gs and other model parameters varied between clones. The strongest relationship between stomatal O3 flux and total biomass was obtained when phytotoxic ozone dose (POD) was integrated using an uptake rate threshold of 7 nmol m(-2) s(-1). The R(2) value was similar between flux-based and concentration-based dose-response relationships. Ozone concentrations above 28-36 nmol mol(-1) contributed to reducing the biomass production of poplar. Critical levels of AOT40 (accumulated O3 exposure over 40 nmol mol(-1)) and POD7 in relation to 5% reduction in total biomass for poplar were 12 μmol mol(-1) h and 3.8 mmol m(-2), respectively.
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- Enzhu Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Dongxiaofu 1, Haidian District, Beijing, 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Dongxiaofu 1, Haidian District, Beijing, 100091, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China.
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Zhu Z, Sun X, Zhao F, Meixner FX. Ozone concentrations, flux and potential effect on yield during wheat growth in the Northwest-Shandong Plain of China. J Environ Sci (China) 2015; 34:1-9. [PMID: 26257340 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2014.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2014] [Revised: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 12/15/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Ozone (O3) concentration and flux (Fo) were measured using the eddy covariance technique over a wheat field in the Northwest-Shandong Plain of China. The O3-induced wheat yield loss was estimated by utilizing O3 exposure-response models. The results showed that: (1) During the growing season (7 March to 7 June, 2012), the minimum (16.1 ppbV) and maximum (53.3 ppbV) mean O3 concentrations occurred at approximately 6:30 and 16:00, respectively. The mean and maximum of all measured O3 concentrations were 31.3 and 128.4 ppbV, respectively. The variation of O3 concentration was mainly affected by solar radiation and temperature. (2) The mean diurnal variation of deposition velocity (Vd) can be divided into four phases, and the maximum occurred at noon (12:00). Averaged Vd during daytime (6:00-18:00) and nighttime (18:00-6:00) were 0.42 and 0.14 cm/sec, respectively. The maximum of measured Vd was about 1.5 cm/sec. The magnitude of Vd was influenced by the wheat growing stage, and its variation was significantly correlated with both global radiation and friction velocity. (3) The maximum mean Fo appeared at 14:00, and the maximum measured Fo was -33.5 nmol/(m(2)·sec). Averaged Fo during daytime and nighttime were -6.9 and -1.5 nmol/(m(2)·sec), respectively. (4) Using O3 exposure-response functions obtained from the USA, Europe, and China, the O3-induced wheat yield reduction in the district was estimated as 12.9% on average (5.5%-23.3%). Large uncertainties were related to the statistical methods and environmental conditions involved in deriving the exposure-response functions.
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- Zhilin Zhu
- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Biogeochemistry Department, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Feng Z, Paoletti E, Bytnerowicz A, Harmens H. Ozone and plants. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2015; 202:215-6. [PMID: 25681054 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2015] [Accepted: 02/06/2015] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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- Zhaozhong Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China.
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- IPSP-CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 4955 Canyon Crest Drive, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK
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Sicard P, Dalstein-Richier L. Health and vitality assessment of two common pine species in the context of climate change in southern Europe. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2015; 137:235-245. [PMID: 25577188 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.12.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Revised: 12/27/2014] [Accepted: 12/29/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The Mediterranean Basin is expected to be more strongly affected by ongoing climate change than most other regions of the earth. The South-eastern France can be considered as case study for assessing global change impacts on forests. Based on non-parametric statistical tests, the climatic parameters (temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, global radiation) and forest-response indicators (crown defoliation, discoloration and visible foliar ozone injury) of two pine species (Pinus halepensis and Pinus cembra) were analyzed. In the last 20 years, the trend analyses reveal a clear hotter and drier climate along the coastline and slightly rainier inland. In the current climate change context, a reduction in ground-level ozone (O3) was found at remote sites and the visible foliar O3 injury decreased while deterioration of the crown conditions was observed likely due to a drier and warmer climate. Clearly, if such climatic and ecological changes are now being detected when the climate, in South-eastern France, has warmed in the last 20 years (+0.46-1.08°C), it can be expected that many more impacts on tree species will occur in response to predicted temperature changes by 2100 (+1.95-4.59°C). Climate change is projected to reduce the benefits of O3 precursor emissions controls leading to a higher O3 uptake. However, the drier and warmer climate should induce a soil drought leading to a lower O3 uptake. These two effects, acting together in an opposite way, could mitigate the harmful impacts of O3 on forests. The development of coordinated emission abatement strategies is useful to reduce both climate change and O3 pollution. Climate change will create additional challenges for forest management with substantial socio-economic and biological diversity impacts. However, the development of future sustainable and adaptive forest management strategies has the potential to reduce the vulnerability of forest species to climate change.
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- Pierre Sicard
- ACRI-ST, 260 route du Pin Montard, BP 234, 06904 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France.
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- GIEFS (Groupe International d'Etudes des Forêts Sud-européennes) - 60, Avenue des Hespérides, 06300 Nice, France
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Braun S, Schindler C, Rihm B. Growth losses in Swiss forests caused by ozone: epidemiological data analysis of stem increment of Fagus sylvatica L. and Picea abies Karst. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2014; 192:129-38. [PMID: 24911370 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2013] [Revised: 03/28/2014] [Accepted: 05/05/2014] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The estimate of growth losses by ozone exposure of forest trees is a significant part in current C sequestration calculations and will also be important in future modeling. It is therefore important to know if the relationship between ozone flux and growth reduction of young trees, used to derive a Critical Level for ozone, is also valid for mature trees. Epidemiological analysis of stem increment data from Fagus sylvatica L. and Picea abies Karst. observed in Swiss forest plots was used to test this hypothesis. The results confirm the validity of the flux-response relationship at least for beech and therefore enable estimating forest growth losses by ozone on a country-wide scale. For Switzerland, these estimates amount to 19.5% growth reduction for deciduous forests, 6.6% for coniferous forests and 11.0% for all forested areas based on annual ozone stomatal uptake during the time period 1991-2011.
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- Sabine Braun
- Institute for Applied Plant Biology, Sandgrubenstrasse 25, CH-4124 Schönenbuch, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Meteotest, Fabrikstrasse 14, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Paoletti E, De Marco A, Beddows DCS, Harrison RM, Manning WJ. Ozone levels in European and USA cities are increasing more than at rural sites, while peak values are decreasing. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2014; 192:295-9. [PMID: 24906864 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.04.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2014] [Revised: 04/13/2014] [Accepted: 04/23/2014] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Ground-level ozone (O3) levels are usually lower in urban centers than nearby rural sites. To compare trends in O3 levels during the period 1990-2010, we obtained monitoring data from paired urban and rural sites from the European Environment Agency and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Ozone peaks decreased at both station types, with no significant differences between urban and rural stations. Ozone annual averages increased at both urban and rural sites, with a faster rate of increase for urban centers. The overall trend was for convergence between urban and rural O3 data. Ozone levels exceeded the criteria established for the protection of human and vegetation health at both urban and rural sites.
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- National Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- National Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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Augustaitis A, Bytnerowicz A, Paoletti E. Biological reactions of forests to climate change and air pollution. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2014; 184:657-658. [PMID: 24074544 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2013] [Accepted: 09/01/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Préndez M, Carvajal V, Corada K, Morales J, Alarcón F, Peralta H. Biogenic volatile organic compounds from the urban forest of the Metropolitan Region, Chile. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2013; 183:143-50. [PMID: 23639471 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2012] [Revised: 04/03/2013] [Accepted: 04/03/2013] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Tropospheric ozone is a secondary pollutant whose primary sources are volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides. The national standard is exceeded on a third of summer days in some areas of the Chilean Metropolitan Region (MR). This study reports normalized springtime experimental emissions factors (EF) for biogenic volatile organic compounds from tree species corresponding to approximately 31% of urban trees in the MR. A Photochemical Ozone Creation Index (POCI) was calculated using Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential of quantified terpenes. Ten species, natives and exotics, were analysed using static enclosure technique. Terpene quantification was performed using GC-FID, thermal desorption, cryogenic concentration and automatic injection. Observed EF and POCI values for terpenes from exotic species were 78 times greater than native values; within the same family, exotic EF and POCI values were 28 and 26 times greater than natives. These results support reforestation with native species for improved urban pollution management.
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- Margarita Préndez
- Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Laboratorio de Química de la Atmósfera, Sergio Livingston 1007, Santiago, Chile.
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Fares S, Vargas R, Detto M, Goldstein AH, Karlik J, Paoletti E, Vitale M. Tropospheric ozone reduces carbon assimilation in trees: estimates from analysis of continuous flux measurements. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2013; 19:2427-43. [PMID: 23589473 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2013] [Accepted: 03/12/2013] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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High ground-level ozone concentrations are typical of Mediterranean climates. Plant exposure to this oxidant is known to reduce carbon assimilation. Ozone damage has been traditionally measured through manipulative experiments that do not consider long-term exposure and propagate large uncertainty by up-scaling leaf-level observations to ecosystem-level interpretations. We analyzed long-term continuous measurements (>9 site-years at 30 min resolution) of environmental and eco-physiological parameters at three Mediterranean ecosystems: (i) forest site dominated by Pinus ponderosa in the Sierra Mountains in California, USA; (ii) forest site composed of a mixture of Quercus spp. and P. pinea in the Tyrrhenian sea coast near Rome, Italy; and (iii) orchard site of Citrus sinensis cultivated in the California Central Valley, USA. We hypothesized that higher levels of ozone concentration in the atmosphere result in a decrease in carbon assimilation by trees under field conditions. This hypothesis was tested using time series analysis such as wavelet coherence and spectral Granger causality, and complemented with multivariate linear and nonlinear statistical analyses. We found that reduction in carbon assimilation was more related to stomatal ozone deposition than to ozone concentration. The negative effects of ozone occurred within a day of exposure/uptake. Decoupling between carbon assimilation and stomatal aperture increased with the amount of ozone pollution. Up to 12-19% of the carbon assimilation reduction in P. ponderosa and in the Citrus plantation was explained by higher stomatal ozone deposition. In contrast, the Italian site did not show reductions in gross primary productivity either by ozone concentration or stomatal ozone deposition, mainly due to the lower ozone concentrations in the periurban site over the shorter period of investigation. These results highlight the importance of plant adaptation/sensitivity under field conditions, and the importance of continuous long-term measurements to explain ozone damage to real-world forests and calculate metrics for ozone-risk assessment.
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- Silvano Fares
- Research Centre for the Soil-Plant System, Via della Navicella 2-4, Rome, Italy.
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van Goethem TMWJ, Azevedo LB, van Zelm R, Hayes F, Ashmore MR, Huijbregts MAJ. Plant species sensitivity distributions for ozone exposure. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2013; 178:1-6. [PMID: 23501341 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.02.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2012] [Revised: 02/08/2013] [Accepted: 02/10/2013] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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This study derived Species Sensitivity Distributions (SSD), representing a cumulative stressor-response distribution based on single-species sensitivity data, for ozone exposure on natural vegetation. SSDs were constructed for three species groups, i.e. trees, annual grassland and perennial grassland species, using species-specific exposure-response data. The SSDs were applied in two ways. First, critical levels were calculated for each species group and compared to current critical levels for ozone exposure. Second, spatially explicit estimates of the potentially affected fraction of plant species in Northwestern Europe were calculated, based on ambient ozone concentrations. We found that the SSD-based critical levels were lower than for the current critical levels for ozone exposure, with conventional critical levels for ozone relating to 8-20% affected plant species. Our study shows that the SSD concept can be successfully applied to both derive critical ozone levels and estimate the potentially affected species fraction of plant communities along specific ozone gradients.
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- T M W J van Goethem
- Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Integrative Leaf-Level Phytotoxic Ozone Dose Assessment for Forest Risk Modelling. DEVELOPMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-098349-3.00013-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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De Marco A, Screpanti A, Attorre F, Proietti C, Vitale M. Assessing ozone and nitrogen impact on net primary productivity with a Generalised non-Linear Model. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2013; 172:250-263. [PMID: 23078996 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2012] [Revised: 08/17/2012] [Accepted: 08/28/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Some studies suggest that in Europe the majority of forest growth increment can be accounted for N deposition and very little by elevated CO(2). High ozone (O(3)) concentrations cause reductions in carbon fixation in native plants by offsetting the effects of elevated CO(2) or N deposition. The cause-effect relationships between primary productivity (NPP) of Quercus cerris, Q. ilex and Fagus sylvatica plant species and climate and pollutants (O(3) and N deposition) in Italy have been investigated by application of Generalised Linear/non-Linear regression model (GLZ model). The GLZ model highlighted: i) cumulative O(3) concentration-based indicator (AOT40F) did not significantly affect NPP; ii) a differential action of oxidised and reduced nitrogen depositions to NPP was linked to the geographical location; iii) the species-specific variation of NPP caused by combination of pollutants and climatic variables could be a potentially important drive-factor for the plant species' shift as response to the future climate change.
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- Alessandra De Marco
- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), C.R. Casaccia, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 S. Maria di Galeria, Rome, Italy.
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