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Appendix D: Recommendations for Continous Development and Implementation of Measurements to Determine Status and Trends in Ecosystem Exposure and Condition
Pages 369-374

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... Integrated in situ experiments should link co-located ambient air pollution measurements with observations of ecosystem response. Specific Improvements Needed: · Field observations and experiments on interactive effects of ozone, reactive nitrogen deposition, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and climatic stress (for example, water availability)
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... · Develop coupled ecological process modeling and air quality modeling for evaluating responses spatially and temporally, and for scenario testing. The atmospheric modeling can provide spatial information on air quality to the ecosystem process models, which provide estimates of response to air pollution.
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... 4. Improve methods for monitoring ambient air quality in ecosystems, and ecosystem response.
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... . The density and distribution of air quality monitoring stations in rural, agricultural, and remote forest areas should be increased, aided by a statistical design that will improve spatial and temporal estimates of exposure.
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... Such studies will increase the understanding of mechanisms of response to multiple factors, including air quality and climate.
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... to address existing gaps in knowledge of effects of atmospherically deposited chemicals in the coastal zone. Where atmospheric deposition data are lacking in some systems, expansion would have to include wet and dry deposition measurements (requiring significant funding and technical expertise)
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Key Terms

  • ecosystem condition
  • aquatic ecosystems
  • atmospheric deposition
  • monitoring program
  • air pollutants

  • cumulative effects
  • continued studies
  • service forest
  • ecosystem conditions
  • ambient air

  • forest health
  • health monitoring
  • nitrogen deposition
  • forest inventory
  • forest service

  • ecosystem response
  • baseline conditions
  • little progress
  • field studies
  • developmental stages

  • fia personnel
  • widely distributed
  • develop coupled
  • meteorological models
  • delivered atmospheric

  • incident total
  • basic estimates
  • food security
  • situ experiments
  • integrated monitoring


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