Mass concentration measurements of autumn bioaerosol using low-cost sensors in a mature temperate woodland free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) experiment: investigating the role of meteorology and carbon dioxide levels

Baird, Aileen B.; Bannister, Edward J.; MacKenzie, A. Robert; Pope, Francis D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2653-2022

Articles | Volume 19, issue 10

Biogeosciences, 19, 2653–2669, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2653-2022

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Biogeosciences, 19, 2653–2669, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2653-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 10

Research article

30 May 2022

Research article | 30 May 2022

Mass concentration measurements of autumn bioaerosol using low-cost sensors in a mature temperate woodland free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) experiment: investigating the role of meteorology and carbon dioxide levels

Aileen B. Baird et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2653-2022-supplement

Data sets

BIFoR FACE 2018 bioaerosols data Aileen B. Baird, Edward J. Bannister, A. Robert MacKenzie, and Francis D. Pope https://doi.org/10.25500/edata.bham.00000688

Short summary

Forest environments contain a wide variety of airborne biological particles (bioaerosols) important for plant and animal health and biosphere–atmosphere interactions. Using low-cost sensors and a free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) experiment, we monitor the impact of enhanced CO₂ on airborne particles. No effect of the enhanced CO₂ treatment on total particle concentrations was observed, but a potential suppression of high concentration bioaerosol events was detected under enhanced CO₂.