Estimates of biomass reductions of ozone sensitive herbaceous plants in California.

ABSTRACT: Exposure to tropospheric ozone pollution impairs photosynthesis and growth in plants and this can have consequences for ecosystems. However, exposure-response research in the United States (U.S.) has historically focused on trees and crops, and less attention has been given to non-crop herbaceous species. We combined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ozone monitoring data from the entirety of 2016 with published exposure-response relationships from controlled exposure experiments for twenty herbaceous plant species occurring in California. The U.S. Department of Agriculture PLANTS database was used to identify county-level occurrence data of these plant species. A kriged ozone exposure surface for 2016 was generated using data from monitoring stations in California and surrounding state

SUBMITTER: Kaylor SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10543089 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature