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196879 

Journal Article 

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Factors affecting the ozone sensitivity of temperate European grasslands: An overview 

Bassin, S; Volk, M; Fuhrer, J 

2007 

Yes 

Environmental Pollution
ISSN: 0269-7491
EISSN: 1873-6424 

146 

3 

678-691 

English 

16904248 

10.1016/j.envpol.2006.06.010 

WOS:000245475300012 

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0269749106003885
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This overview of experimentally induced effects of ozone aims to identify physiological and ecological principles, which can be used to classify the sensitivity to ozone of temperate grassland communities in Europe. The analysis of data from experiments with single plants, binary mixtures and multi-species communities illustrates the difficulties to relate individual responses to communities, and thus to identify grassland communities most at risk. Although there is increasing evidence that communities can be separated into broad classes of ozone sensitivity, the database from experiments under realistic conditions with representative systems is too small to draw firm conclusions. But it appears that risk assessments, based on results from individuals or immature mixtures exposed in chambers, are only applicable to intensively managed, productive grasslands, and that the risk of ozone damage for most of perennial grasslands with lower productivity tends to be less than previously expected. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 

Ozone; Grassland; Species diversity; Productivity; Functional types