Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 23. Key Indicators of Air Pollution and Climate Change Impacts at Forest...

Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 23. Key Indicators of Air Pollution and Climate Change Impacts at Forest...
ISBN-10
0128055758
ISBN-13
9780128055755
Series
Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges
Category
Nature
Pages
648
Language
English
Published
2013-11-19
Publisher
Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Authors
Rainer Matyssek, Elena Paoletti, Wim de Vries

Description

Untangling the complex effects that different air pollution and climate change factors cause to forest ecosystems is challenging. Supersites, that is, comprehensive measurement sites where research and monitoring of the whole soil–plant–atmosphere system can be carried out, are suggested as a refinement of the current monitoring and research efforts in Europe. This chapter identifies and discusses key measurements to be carried out at such supersites, with a focus on four topical subjects: the carbon, nitrogen, ozone and water budgets. This kind of holistic approach is vital to a realistic translation of the ongoing changes in climate and air quality into research on the impacts on forest ecosystems. Such an integrated effort requires a considerable use of resources at highly instrumented measurement sites and can only be achieved by building on existing infrastructures.

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