Effects of ammonia from livestock farming on lichen photosynthesis

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2258-2265

  Paoli, Luca ^a,b   Pirintsos, Stergios Arg ^b   Kotzabasis, Kiriakos ^b   Pisani, Tommaso ^a   Navakoudis, Eleni ^b   Loppi, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Arid environments; Evernia prunastri; JIP test; Pseudevernia furfuracea

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC AMMONIA; CHLOROPHYLL A FLUORESCENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVERNIA PRUNASTRI; GASPHASE; GLOBAL INDEX; JIP-TEST; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PSEUDEVERNIA FURFURACEA; REMOTE AREAS; SEMI-ARID REGION; STRESS INDICATORS;

AIR QUALITY; AMMONIA; ARID REGIONS; CHLOROPHYLL; EXCITATION ENERGY; FARMS; GAS ABSORPTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PORPHYRINS; WOOL;

POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; CHLOROPHYLL A;

AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LICHEN; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEMIARID REGION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVERNIA PRUNASTRI; GAS; GREECE; LICHEN; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIVESTOCK; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PSEUDODEVERNIA FURFURACEA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEEP FARMING;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AMMONIA; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CHLOROPHYLL; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; LICHENS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

CRETE; GREECE;

EVERNIA PRUNASTRI; OVIS ARIES; PSEUDEVERNIA FURFURACEA;

EID: 77953284936     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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