Key indicators of air pollution and climate change impacts at forest supersites

TY - CHAP

T1 - Key indicators of air pollution and climate change impacts at forest supersites

AU - Paoletti, Elena

AU - de Vries, Wim

AU - Mikkelsen, Teis Nørgaard

AU - Ibrom, Andreas

AU - Larsen, K. S.

AU - Tuovinen, Juha Pekka

AU - Serengil, Yussuf

AU - Yurtseven, I.

AU - Wieser, Gerhard

AU - Matyssek, Rainer

PY - 2013/1/1

Y1 - 2013/1/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Air pollution

KW - Carbon dioxide

KW - Climate change

KW - Forests

KW - Nitrogen deposition

KW - Supersites

KW - Tropospheric ozone

KW - Water control

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84888356560&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/b978-0-08-098349-3.00023-2

DO - 10.1016/b978-0-08-098349-3.00023-2

M3 - Book chapter

AN - SCOPUS:84888356560

T3 - Developments in Environmental Science

SP - 497

EP - 518

BT - Developments in Environmental Science

PB - Elsevier Ltd

ER -