Atmospheric benzenoid emissions from plants rival those from fossil fuels

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Misztal, P K ^a,b   Hewitt, C N ^c   Wildt, J ^d   Blande, J D ^e   Eller, A S D ^f   Fares, S ^a,g   Gentner, D R ^h,i   Gilman, J B ^f,j   Graus, M ^f,j,p   Greenberg, J ^b   Guenther, A B ^b,k,l   Hansel, A ^m   Harley, P ^b,n   Huang, M ^b   Jardine, K ^o   Karl, T ^p   Kaser, L ^b,m   Keutsch, F N ^q,z   Kiendler Scharr, A ^d   Kleist, E ^d   Lerner, B M ^f,j   Li, T ^e   Mak, J ^r   Nolscher A C ^s   Schnitzhofer, R ^m   Sinha, V ^t   Thornton, B ^u   Warneke, C ^f,j   Wegener, F ^v,aa   Werner, C ^v,aa   Williams, J ^s   Worton, D R ^a,w   Yassaa, N ^x,y   Goldstein, A H ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^h 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

ⁱ Yale University   (United States)

^j NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^k PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l Washington State University   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

ⁿ ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^o LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^q UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^r STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^t INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MOHALI   (India)

^u UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^w AEROSOL DYNAMICS INC   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^y CENTRE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES   (Algeria)

^z HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; FOSSIL FUEL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

ATMOSPHERE; BENZENE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL FUELS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TREES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84952803104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12064     Document Type: Article

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