Air Quality And Ecological Impacts: Relating Sources To Effects

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This work reviews the characterization of air quality as it pertains to specific emission sources and their environmental effect. Since emissions from multiple sources impact the same location, a multidisciplinary approach is needed to relate atmospheric processes to terrestrial vegetation. As global industrial expansions continue, air quality is no longer governed by isolated point sources (e.g., a single coal-fired power plant), but by source clusters or complexes. To address these issues, atmospheric receptor models have been developed and are continually being improved. The benefits of any air quality control measures based on receptor modeling must be verified by assessing changes or bettering in environmental impacts. Until now, such an approach has not been well integrated and practiced. This book provides the needed concepts and methods in conducting the studies to establish cause-and-effect relationships under ambient conditions, which is valuable to policy makers both in industrialized and developing nations. • Offers approaches for identifying the emissions components from specific air pollution sources • Details methods for using pollutant accumulation in plants for ecological effects assessment • Establishes cause (air quality) and effect (plant responses) relationships under ambient conditions

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Air Quality and Ecological Impacts: Relating Sources to Effects Edited by Allan H. Legge Biosphere Solutions, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Amsterdam – Boston – Heidelberg – London – New York – Oxford Paris – San Diego – San Francisco – Singapore – Sydney – Tokyo Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA Radarweg 29, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX28DP, UK First edition 2009 Copyright r 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone (þ44) (0) 1865 843830; fax (þ44) (0) 1865 853333; email: [email protected] Alternatively you can submit your request online by visiting the Elsevier web site at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions, and selecting Obtaining permission to use Elsevier material Notice No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN: 978-0-08-095201-7 ISSN: 1474-8177 For information on all Elsevier publications visit our website at books.elsevier.com Printed and bound in Hungary 09 10 11 12 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Legge Cover Information From Left to Right Far left: Navajo Coal-Fired Power Generating Station near Page, Arizona. Middle top left: Acute foliar injury to the leaves of Wild Rose (Rosa acicularis Lindl.) exposed to elevated concentrations of SO2 when leaves were wet with water droplets is seen as reddish-brown interveinal necrotic areas with smooth and regular margins. When the leaves of Wild Rose are dry when e
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