The fingerprint of tropospheric ozone on broadleaved forest vegetation in Europe

Autor: Marco Ferretti, Maxime Cailleret, Matthias Haeni, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Vladislav Apuhtin, Valda Araminiene, Václav Buriánek, Sébastien Cecchini, Laurence Dalstein-Richier, Iva Hůnová, Tamara Jakovljević, Konstantinos Kaoukis, Johan Neirynck, Manuel Nicolas, Anne-Katrin Prescher, Radek Novotný, Hana Pavlendova, Nenad Potočić, Matej Rupel, Alexander Russ, Vidas Stakėnas, Arne Verstraeten, Pierre Vollenweider, Daniel Zlindra, Diana Pitar, Vicent Calatayud, Elena Gottardini, Marcus Schaub
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Ecological Indicators, Vol 158, Iss , Pp 111486- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1470-160X
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.111486
Popis: Tropospheric ozone (O3) increased globally in the 20th century, contributes to climate change and can have adverse effects on terrestrial ecosystems. The response of forest vegetation to ozone is modulated by species- and site-specific factors and visible foliar symptoms (VFS) are the only direct evidence of ozone effects on vegetation. VFS have been observed and reproduced under (semi-) controlled conditions and their field assessment has been largely harmonized in Europe. We analyzed ozone concentration and VFS data as measured at (respectively) 118 and 91 intensive monitoring sites of the International Co-Operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests) spanning over five European biogeographic regions from 2005 to 2018. Average values for VFS were calculated accounting for the number of species present and their observed frequency. Spatial and temporal variation of ozone concentrations, VFS, and their relationships across Europe were then investigated by applying Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs) and combined GLMMs. Ozone concentrations exceeded 40 ppb on 37.3 % of the sites and were significantly higher (p
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