Impacts of ozone pollution on productivity and forage quality of grass/clover swards

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 38, 2008, Pages 8755-8769

  González Fernández, Ignacio ^a,b   Bass, David ^a   Muntifering, Russell ^c   Mills, Gina ^d   Barnes, Jeremy ^a  

^a Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability   (United Kingdom)

^b CIEMAT   (Spain)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumable food value; Critical levels; Ozone risk assessment; Soil nutrition

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GASES; LIGHTING; MIXTURES; NUTRITION; OZONE; PRODUCTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOILS;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; CONSUMABLE FOOD VALUE; CRITICAL LEVELS; FORAGE QUALITIES; MARGINAL EFFECTS; MESOCOSMS; MONO CULTURES; OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; OZONE EXPOSURES; OZONE POLLUTIONS; OZONE UPTAKES; SOIL NUTRIENT REGIMES; SOIL NUTRITION; SOIL NUTRITIONS; WHITE CLOVERS;

AIR POLLUTION;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGE; GRASS; LEGUME; MESOCOSM; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OZONE; SOIL NUTRIENT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BOVIDS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLOVER; FOOD QUALITY; GRASSLAND; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PERENNIAL RYEGRASS; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL QUALITY;

LOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 55549114995     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.08.030     Document Type: Article

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