Flux-Based ozone risk assessment for adult beech and spruce forests

Ludger Grünhage, Rainer Matyssek, Gerhard Wieser, Karl Heinz Häberle, Michael Leuchner, Annette Menzel, Jochen Dieler, Hans Pretzsch, Winfried Grimmeisen, Lothar Zimmermann, Stephan Raspe, Matthias Schröder

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Abstract

Rising tropospheric ozone (O3) concentrations pose a critical threat to forest ecosystems. A stomatal flux-based risk evaluation methodology at leaf level was established recently in the context of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. This study demonstrates improvement and validation of the stomatal flux-effect approach for European beech and Norway spruce with results from the 8-year free-air O3 enrichment experiment at Kranzberg Forest (Germany). Based on the recommended O3/water vapour diffusivity ratio of 0.663, provisional corrected flux-effect functions for beech and spruce were deduced. Comparison of observed and modelled loss in annual growth under twice-ambient O3 exposure relative to whole-stem productivity under ambient O3 seems to confirm the Convention's leaf-level stomatal flux approach and the associated response function for Norway spruce up to twice-ambient O3 exposure. For European beech, it must be emphasized that the Convention's methodology may underestimate the risk for loss in whole-stem productivity.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelDevelopments in Environmental Science
Herausgeber (Verlag)Elsevier Ltd
Seiten251-266
Seitenumfang16
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2013

Publikationsreihe

NameDevelopments in Environmental Science
Band13
ISSN (Print)1474-8177

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