White clover clones as a cost-effective indicator of phytotoxic ozone: 10 years of experience from central Italy

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1421-1426

  Nali, Cristina ^a   Francini, Alessandra ^a   Lorenzini, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air quality monitoring; AOT40; Critical levels; Photochemical smog; Risk assessment; Trifolium repens

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MONITORING; AOT40; CRITICAL LEVELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

AIR QUALITY; BIOMASS; OZONE; PLANTS (BOTANY); RISK MANAGEMENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

OZONE;

BIOINDICATOR; CLONE; DAMAGE; GAS EXCHANGE; LEGUME; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OZONE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYTOTOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOG; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; ARTICLE; BIOMASS CONVERSION; BIOTYPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GAS EXCHANGE; ITALY; METEOROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT LEAF; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION; WHITE CLOVER;

AIR POLLUTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ITALY; METEOROLOGY; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OZONE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; TRIFOLIUM;

TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 63249116828     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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