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Dosage of Air Pollutants and Damage to Vegetation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

V. C. Runeckles
V. C. Runeckles
Affiliation:
Professor and Chairman, Department of Plant Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 8, B.C., Canada.
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Much of the published research on the effects of air pollutants on plants suffers from a lack of understanding of the relationship between the conditions employed and naturally occurring concentrations of pollutant. Frequently lacking is information as to the effective dosages of pollutants used in laboratory studies. The importance of dosage is discussed, as is its relation to concentration and flux. It is suggested that a greater interrelationship between observations from different research workers would be achieved by the simple expedient of measuring pollutant uptake by the plants under study, rather than merely describing concentrations in the surrounding air.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , Winter 1974 , pp. 305 - 308
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1974

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