Impacts of atmospheric pollution on the plant communities of British acid grasslands

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2602-2608

  Payne, Richard J ^a,b   Stevens, Carly J ^c,d   Dise, Nancy B ^a   Gowing, David J ^c   Pilkington, Michael G ^e   Phoenix, Gareth K ^e   Emmett, Bridget A ^f   Ashmore, Michael R ^g  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base cation deposition; Biodiversity; Critical loads; Nitrogen deposition; Ordination; Ozone

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BASE CATIONS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; CRITICAL LOAD; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ECOSYSTEM DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; INDICATOR SPECIES; INDICATOR VALUES; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; MULTIPLE POLLUTANTS; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; ORDINATION; OZONE EXPOSURES; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; OZONE; POSITIVE IONS;

AIR POLLUTION;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; CATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; NITROGEN; ORDINATION; OZONE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; ORDINATION ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL ACIDITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN; OZONE; POACEAE;

EID: 80052335443     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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