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Beech (Fagus sylvatica) response to ozone exposure assessed with a chlorophyll a fluorescence performance index

Contributors

Clark, Alexander; Landolt, W.; Bucher, J.B.; Strasser, Reto

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Environmental pollution, vol. 109, no. 3, p. 501-507

Publication date

2000

Abstract

This paper describes a relationship between ozone exposure, biomass, visual symptoms and a chlorophyll a fluorescence performance index for young beech trees (Fagus sylvatica). The plants were exposed to four levels of ozone in open-top fumigation chambers (50, 85, 100% of ambient, and 50% of ambient+30 nl l−1 ozone) that fluctuated in parallel with ambient ozone during a single growing season. The trees were fumigated in the four treatments with ozone levels corresponding to an AOT40 (accumulated exposure above a threshold of 40 nl l−1) of 0.01, 3.35, 7.06 and 19.70 μl l−1 h, respectively. Highly significant differences were found between the 50% of ambient+30 nl l−1 ozone treatment and all other treatments, with a 70.5% reduction in primary photosynthetic performance, as measured with the PI index. The reduction of the PI values demonstrated a high correlation with visual symptom development (r2=0.98), and by the end of September with biomass loss (r2=0.99). A significant ozone exposure–response relationship was found between AOT40 and primary photochemistry (r2=0.97). Thus, analysis of PI provides an alternative method for regional monitoring of tree health within the context of the currently employed AOT40.

Keywords

  • Fluorescence
  • Ozone
  • Biomass
  • Performance index
  • Visual symptoms

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CLARK, Alexander et al. Beech (Fagus sylvatica) response to ozone exposure assessed with a chlorophyll a fluorescence performance index. In: Environmental pollution, 2000, vol. 109, n° 3, p. 501–507. doi: 10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00053-1

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http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0269749100000531

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0269-7491
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