Relative effects of elevated background ozone concentrations and peak episodes on senescence and above-ground growth in four populations of Anthoxanthum odoratum L.

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 503-510

  Dawnay, Louise ^a,b   Mills, Gina ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthoxanthum odoratum; Biomass; Intraspecific variation; Ozone; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ANTHOXANTHUM ODORATUM; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATIONS; LINEAR CORRELATIONS; NORTH WALES; OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; PEAK CONCENTRATIONS; SENESCENCE; WHOLE PLANTS;

BIOMASS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); OZONE; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

GASES;

OZONE;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACKGROUND LEVEL; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; OZONE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SENESCENCE; TILLERING;

ANTHOXANTHUM ODORATUM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRASS; NONHUMAN; OZONATION; PLANT GROWTH;

AIR POLLUTANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OZONE; POACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANTHOXANTHUM ODORATUM;

EID: 57049114861     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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