This is the report from a 2009-13 study funded by the European Union to increase understanding of the state of forest ecosystems and their potential to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a polluted environment; and to reconcile process-oriented research, long-term monitoring, and applied modeling at comprehensive forest research sites to be established. Environmental and forest scientists cover interactions between trace gases, climate change, and vegetation; the significance of biotic processes in forest ecosystem response; mechanistic and diagnostic understanding for risk assessment and up-scaling; the global dimension of air pollution as part of climate change; the potential for "supersites" or research on forest ecosystems; and knowledge transfer and socio-economic aspects. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
There are significant pressures from climate change and air pollution that forests currently face. This book aims to increase understanding of the state and potential of forest ecosystems to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a polluted environment. It reconciles process-oriented research, long-term monitoring and applied modeling through comprehensive forest ecosystem research. Furthermore, it introduces "forest super sites for research for integrating soil, plant and atmospheric sciences and monitoring. It also provides mechanistic and policy-oriented modeling with scientifically sound risk indications regarding atmospheric changes and ecosystem services.
- Identifies current knowledge gaps and emerging research needs
- Highlights novel methodologies and integrated research concepts
- Assesses ecological meaning of investigations and prioritizing research need
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"...invaluable and indispensible for all who wish to take part in the discussion on an informed level and especially for those who are in a position where they need to make sociopolitical decisions" --Journal of Forest Science, 60, 2014 (8)
"This is the report from a 2009-13 studyto increase understanding of the state of forest ecosystems and their potential to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a polluted environment; and to reconcile process-oriented research, long-term monitoring, and applied modeling at comprehensive forest research sites to be established." --ProtoView.com, April 2014
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Summarizes 5 years of work on the EU project Climate Change and Forest Mitigation and Adaptation in a Polluted Environment
PART I Introduction into the scope and structure of the book
Ch. 1 Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Knowledge,
Understanding and Perspectives from Forest Research, R. Matyssek et al.
PART II Interactions between trace gases, climate change and vegetation
Ch. 2 Gaseous exchange between forests and the atmosphere, S. Cieslik, et
al.
Ch. 3 Nutrients or pollutants? Nitrogen deposition to European forests, W.
Eugster, M. Haeni
Ch. 4 Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and their impacts on
biosphere-atmosphere interactions, F. Loreto, S. Fares
Ch. 5 Air pollution risks to northern European forests in a changing climate,
J.-P. Tuovinen, et al.
PART III Significance of biotic processes in forest ecosystem response
Ch. 6 Ozone Research, quo vadis ? Lessons from the free-air canopy fumigation
experiment at Kranzberg Forest, R. Matyssek, et al.
Ch. 7 Soil respiration and soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition in
response to climate change, J. Kruse, et al.
Ch. 8 Mycorrhizosphere complexity, H. Kraigher, M. Bajc, T. Grebenc
Ch. 9 Tree and forest responses to interacting elevated atmospheric CO2 and
tropospheric O3: A synthesis of experimental evidence, J. King, et al.
Ch. 10 Belowground Carbon Cycling at Aspen FACE: Dynamic Responses to CO2 and
O3 in Developing Forests, K.S. Pregitzer and A. F. Talhelm
Ch. 11 Impacts of atmospheric change on tree-arthropod interactions, J.J.
Couture and R. L. Lindroth
PART IV Mechanistic and diagnostic understanding for risk assessment and
up-scaling
Ch. 12 Flux-based ozone risk assessment for adult beech and spruce forests,
L. Grünhage, et al.
Ch. 13 Integrative leaf level phytotoxic ozone dose assessment for forest
risk modelling, P. Dizengremel, et al.
Ch. 14 Integrated studies on abiotic stress defence in trees: The case of
ozone, D. Ernst
Ch. 15 Metabolomics and transcriptomics increase our understanding about
defence responses and genotypic differences of northern deciduous trees to
elevating ozone, CO2 and climate warming, E. Oksanen, et al.
PART V Global dimension of air pollution as part of climate change
Ch. 16 Interactive effects of air pollution and climate change on forest
ecosystems in the United States current understanding and future scenarios,
A. Bytnerowicz, M. Fenn, S. McNulty, F. Yuan, A. Pourmokhtarian, C. Driscoll,
and T. Meixner
Ch. 17 Effects of ozone on forest ecosystems in East and Southeast Asia, T.
Koike, et al.
Ch. 18 Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on plants: Implications
for India, V. Pandey, et al.
Ch. 19 Land use change, air pollution and climate change vegetation
response in Latin America, A.R. Kozovits, M. M. C. Bustamante
Ch. 20 Ozone concentrations and their potential impacts on vegetation in
southern Africa, L. Laakso, et al.
Ch. 21 Wild-land fires: monitoring, plume modelling, impact on atmospheric
composition and climate, M. Sofiev
PART VI The potential of Supersites” for research on forest ecosystems
Ch. 22 Towards supersites in forest ecosystem monitoring and research, T. N.
Mikkelsen, et al.
Ch. 23 Key indicators of air pollution and climate change impacts at forest
Supersites, E. Paoletti, et al.
PART VII Knowledge transfer and socio-economic aspects
Ch. 24 Forest ecosystem services under climate change and air pollution, P.
Cudlín, et al.
Ch. 25 Targeting sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services with
special focus on carbon sequestration, M. Nijnik, D. Miller
Ch. 26 Global change and the role of forests in future land-use systems, T.
Knoke, A. Hahn
PART VIII Conclusions and perspectives
Ch. 27 Conclusions and perspectives, R. Matyssek, et al.
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