Abstract Background In 1994, a “Pan-European Programme for Intensive and Continuous
Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems” started to contribute to a better understanding of the …

Forests are among the most important terrestrial ecological systems in terms of the multitude
of ecosystem functions and services they provide. These biotic systems are vital not only for …

China's rapid economic growth has caused severe air pollution, raising serious concerns
about the growing evidence of its negative health, environmental, and economic impacts …

Ozone holds a certain fascination in atmospheric science. It is ubiquitous in the atmosphere,
central to tropospheric oxidation chemistry, yet harmful to human and ecosystem health as …

Over the past 20 years, the focus of forest science on air pollution has moved from forest
decline to a holistic framework of forest health, and from the effects on forest production to …

To derive O 3 dose–response relationships (DRR) for five European forest trees species and
broadleaf deciduous and needleleaf tree plant functional types (PFTs), phytotoxic O 3 doses …

Forests in Europe face significant changes in climate, which in interaction with air quality
changes, may significantly affect forest productivity, stand composition and carbon …

Southern forests are at the highest ozone (O 3) risk in Europe where ground-level O 3 is a
pressing sanitary problem for ecosystem health. Exposure-based standards for protecting …

Ground-level ozone (O3) has gained awareness as an agent of climate change. In this
respect, key results are comprehended from a unique 8-year free-air O3-fumigation …

In southern Brazil, the recent increase in tropospheric ozone (O 3) concentrations poses an
additional threat to the biodiverse but endangered and fragmented remnants of the Atlantic …