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

Elena Paoletti*, Wim de Vries, Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen, Andreas Ibrom, K. S. Larsen, Juha Pekka Tuovinen, Yussuf Serengil, I. Yurtseven, Gerhard Wieser, Rainer Matyssek

*Corresponding author for this work
6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDevelopments in Environmental Science
Number of pages22
PublisherElsevier Ltd
Publication date1 Jan 2013
Pages497-518
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013
SeriesDevelopments in Environmental Science
Volume13
ISSN1474-8177

Keywords

  • Air pollution
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Climate change
  • Forests
  • Nitrogen deposition
  • Supersites
  • Tropospheric ozone
  • Water control

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