Have improvements in ozone air quality reduced ozone uptake into plants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19569029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison C Ronan (Florida State University), Jason A Ducker (Florida State University), Jordan Schnell (0000-0002-4072-4033, Northwestern University), Jordan L Schnell, Christopher D Holmes (0000-0002-2727-0954, Florida State University) |
| Editors | Detlev Helmig (0000-0003-1612-1651), Daniel Liptzin (0000-0002-8243-267X) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Elementa Science of the Anthropocene (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2325-1026 • E-ISSN: 2325-1026 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/elementa.399 |
| OpenAlex | W2999011547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 63 |
Peak levels of ozone (O3)—quantified by concentration metrics such as accumulated O3 exposure over a threshold of 40 ppb (AOT40) and the sigmoidal-weighted cumulative exposure (W126)—have decreased over large parts of the United States and Europe in the last several decades. Past studies have suggested that these improvements in AOT40 and W126 indicate reductions in plant injury, even though it is widely recognized that O3 flux into leaves, not ambient O3 concentration, is the cause of plant damage. Using a new dataset of O3 uptake into plants derived from eddy covariance flux towers, we test whether AOT40, W126, or summer mean O3 are useful indicators of trends in the cumulative uptake of O3 into leaves, which is the phytotoxic O3 dose (POD or PODy, where y is a detoxification threshold). At 32 sites in the United States and Europe, we find that the AOT40 and W126 concentration metrics decreased over 2005–2014 at most sites: 25 and 28 sites, respectively. POD0, however, increased at a majority (18) of the sites. Multiple statistical tests demonstrate that none of the concentration metrics—AOT40, W126, and mean O3—are good predictors of POD0 temporal trends or variability (R2 ≤ 0.15). These results are insensitive to using a detoxification threshold (POD3). The divergent trends for O3 concentration and plant uptake are due to stomatal control of flux, which is shaped by environmental variability and plant factors. As a result, there has been no widespread, clear improvement in POD over 2005–2014 at the sites we can assess. Decreases in concentration metrics, therefore, give an overly optimistic and incomplete picture of the direction and magnitude of O3 impacts on vegetation. Because of this lack of relation between O3 flux and concentration, flux metrics should be preferred over concentration metrics in assessments of plant injury from O3
Air pollution · Air quality index · Atmospheric sciences · Biology · Ecosystem · Eddy covariance · Geography · Meteorology · Ozone · Point of delivery · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols · Chemistry · Environmental Science · Plant responses to elevated CO2 · Ecology · Horticulture
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |