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Ozone causes substantial reductions in the carbon sequestration of managed European forests
Per Erik Karlsson
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, P.O. Box 53021, 40014 Gothenburg, Sweden
Patrick Büker
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Sam Bland
Stockholm Environment Institute at York, University of York, York, UK
David Simpson
EMEP MSC-W, Climate Modelling and Air Pollution Division, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Katrina Sharps
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor, Wales, UK
Felicity Hayes
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor, Wales, UK
Lisa D. Emberson
Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, England, UK
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The dry deposition of ozone to the Earth's surface is an important process as it controls both the removal of this potent pollutant from the atmosphere and its uptake by vegetation. It is necessary to use numerical models to study this process at the global scale, but many models to represent dry deposition lag behind current understanding. In this paper we study the dry deposition process in global models and highlight measures that will allow these models to be critically evaluated.
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Stomatal ozone uptake and the negative impacts on forest growth rates were estimated for European forests. This was translated to annual increments in the forest living biomass carbon stocks, with and without ozone exposure. In the absence of O3 exposure, on average, European forest growth rates would increase by 9%, but the sequestration to the living-biomass carbon stocks would increase by 31% since the sequestration depends on the difference between growth and harvest rates.
Stomatal ozone uptake and the negative impacts on forest growth rates were estimated for...
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