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Foliar analysis and air purification by forests
Author(s) -
Wentzel K. F.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
european journal of forest pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1439-0329
pISSN - 0300-1237
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0329.1982.tb01297.x
Subject(s) - biology , leaching (pedology) , air pollutants , biomass (ecology) , pollutant , chromosomal translocation , deposition (geology) , botany , air pollution , agronomy , ecology , soil water , biochemistry , paleontology , sediment , gene
From analyses of conifer needles and from biomass studies it is concluded that only a small part of air pollutants gets into tissues by dry deposition. Since translocation and leaching are quantitatively unsufficiently known the air filtering effect of forests may be much bigger than that detected by foliar analysis.