Ozone affects plant, insect, and soil microbial communities: A threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity

E Agathokleous, Z Feng, E Oksanen, P Sicard… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Elevated tropospheric ozone concentrations induce adverse effects in plants. We reviewed
how ozone affects (i) the composition and diversity of plant communities by affecting key …

Should we see urban trees as effective solutions to reduce increasing ozone levels in cities?

P Sicard, E Agathokleous, V Araminiene, E Carrari… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Outdoor air pollution is considered as the most serious environmental problem for human
health, associated with some million deaths worldwide per year. Cities have to cope with the …

Projected global ground-level ozone impacts on vegetation under different emission and climate scenarios

P Sicard, A Anav, A De Marco… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
The impact of ground-level ozone (O 3) on vegetation is largely under-investigated at the
global scale despite large areas worldwide that are exposed to high surface O 3 levels. To …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of air pollution on human and ecosystem health, and implications for the National Emission Ceilings Directive: Insights from Italy

A De Marco, C Proietti, A Anav, L Ciancarella… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Across the 28 EU member states there were nearly half a million premature deaths in 2015
as a result of exposure to PM 2.5, O 3 and NO 2. To set the target for air quality levels and …

Ozone modelling and map** for risk assessment: an overview of different approaches for human and ecosystems health

A De Marco, H Garcia-Gomez, A Collalti… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tropospheric ozone (O 3) is one of the most concernedair pollutants dueto its widespread
impacts on land vegetated ecosystems and human health. Ozone is also the third …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing green infrastructure in cities: impact on ambient temperature, air quality and heat-related mortality and morbidity

M Santamouris, P Osmond - Buildings, 2020 - mdpi.com
Urban vegetation provides undeniable benefits to urban climate, health, thermal comfort and
environmental quality of cities and represents one of the most considered urban heat …

Does the root to shoot ratio show a hormetic response to stress? An ecological and environmental perspective

E Agathokleous, RG Belz, M Kitao, T Koike… - Journal of Forestry …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Root/shoot (R/S) ratio is an important index for assessing plant health, and has
received increased attention in the last decades as a sensitive indicator of plant stress …

Predicting the effect of ozone on vegetation via linear non-threshold (LNT), threshold and hormetic dose-response models

E Agathokleous, RG Belz, V Calatayud… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The nature of the dose-response relationship in the low dose zone and how this concept
may be used by regulatory agencies for science-based policy guidance and risk assessment …

Current and future ozone risks to global terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem processes

J Fuhrer, M Val Martin, G Mills, CL Heald… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Risks associated with exposure of individual plant species to ozone (O3) are well
documented, but implications for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem processes have …

Strategic roadmap to assess forest vulnerability under air pollution and climate change

A De Marco, P Sicard, Z Feng… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although it is an integral part of global change, most of the research addressing the effects of
climate change on forests have overlooked the role of environmental pollution. Similarly …