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The Impact of Air Pollution on Terrestrial Managed and Natural Vegetation by C. J. Stevens; J. N. B. Bell; P. Brimblecombe; C. M. Clark; N. B. Dise; D. Fowler; G. M. Lovett; P. A. Wolseley is a Physics and Astronomy article available to read on EtoBox.

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Although awareness that air pollution can damage vegetation dates back at least to the 1600s, the processes and mechanisms of damage were not rigorously studied until the late twentieth century. In the UK following the Industrial Revolution, urban air quality became very poor, with highly phytotoxic SO~2~and NO~2~concentrations, and remained that way until the mid-twentieth century. Since then both air quality, and our understanding of pollutants and their impacts, have greatly improved. Air pollutants remain a threat to natural and managed ecosystems. Air pollution imparts impacts through four major threats to vegetation are discussed through in a series of case studies. Gas-phase effects by the primary emissions of SO~2~and NO~2~are discussed in the context of impacts on lichens in urban areas. The effects of wet and dry deposited acidity from sulfur and nitrogen compounds are considered with a particular focus on forest decline. Ecosystem eutrophication by nitrogen deposition focuses on heathland decline in the Netherlands, and ground-level ozone at phytotoxic concentrations is discussed by considering impacts on semi-natural vegetation. We find that, although air is getting cle

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Author

C. J. Stevens; J. N. B. Bell; P. Brimblecombe; C. M. Clark; N. B. Dise; D. Fowler; G. M. Lovett; P. A. Wolseley

Publisher

The Royal Society; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0264-3952)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)