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Editorial
The EURASAP Workshop on Air Pollution & The Natural Environment: Biological Monitoring

 

Scientists' contributions
Abstracts of presentations at the EURASAP Workshop on Air Pollution & The Natural Environment: Biological Monitoring

• Agneta Burton: Bio-monitoring of environmental change and the use of bryophytes in environmental assessment

• Jordan Stamenov et al.: Moss biomonitoring technique of atmospheric deposition of heavy metals in Bulgaria-current results

• Cristina Branquinho et al.: Copper impact on lichen physiology

• Malgorzata Owczarek et al.: Lichen population biodiversity as an index of air health in Rieti District

• Jeffrey Bates: Changes in oak epiphytes monitored for 21 years along an air quality gradient into London

• Nomeda Jucevicien: Air quality assessment of Kaunas city using different methods of lichenoindication

• Randolph Kricke and Guido Benno Feige: Air quality monitoring with lichens: A presentation and comparison of different common methods

• Andrei Kovatchev and D. Ivanov: Mapping air quality with lichens in urban areas of Bulgaria

• M.C. Freitas, M.A. Reis, Adriano Pachecoand L.I.C. Barros: Biological monitoring of environmental contaminants -- Established systems and potential newcomers

• Jean Pierre Garrec et al.: Mapping of particulate air pollution on Beijing by plant bio-monitors

• Melica Tomasevic et al.: Using plant leaves for the evaluation of trace element contamination

• Pierre Vollenweider et al.: Atmospheric ozone pollution: bioindication tools for calibrated expertise of symptoms in leaves and needles from trees

• Ranit Lobel et al.: Particulate matter effect on Petunia 'Blue Spark' plants

• Nigel Bell: Aphids as indicators of changing air quality

• R Metcheva et al.: Trace element contents, cytogenetical and haematological indices in monitoring species of small mammals in different regions of Bulgaria

• D. E. Chamberlain, Rachel Warren et al.: Spatial associations between acidification and bird species distribution in Britain

• Walter Erhardt: Standardised methods of bio-monitoring air pollution effects. Examples of results, discussion of strengths and limitations of the methods

• Nigel Bell: Biomonitoring in the UK: Slide Presentation

• Peter Williams and Angela Mulgrew: Design of biomonitoirng programmes for air quality assessment and decision making at local, national and international level

• Constantine Saitanis et al.: Monitoring and biomonitoring ambient ozone in the Greek Mainland

• Maria do Carmo Freitas, A. M. G. Pacheco et al: Recent trends in biomonitorirng of atmospheric pollution with an emphasis on trace elements

• Randolph Kricke: LIMON - Report on the European Workshop on Lichen Biomonitoring held in England 2000

• Gregory Insarov: Monitoring epiphytic lichens in Russia and adjacent countries in relation to background air pollution

• Gabor Varbiro and G. Borics: The establishment of the East Hungarian Biomonitoring Network

• Lilyana Yurukova: Active biomonitoring with lichen and moss species - fast method for assessment of atmospheric pollution

• Harry Harmens et al.: The UN/ECE ICP vegetation programme: An international project monitoring ozone effects on vegetation and heavy metal content of mosses

• Jonathan Foot and Simon Bareham: An Assessment of Air Pollution Impacts on habitats and species made by the statutory conservation agencies in the UK

• Andreas Klumpp et al.: Biomonitoring air quality in urban agglomerations: the European network EuroBionet

• Evgeni Donev: Relatively high background ozone concentrations in Bulgaria

• Blaga Veleva: Use of algae as biomonitors of radioactive pollution

 

Jobs

• Oregon, Portland State University

 

Future Events

• International Workshop on Physical Modelling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena, Hamburg University, Germany
• Third International Conference "AIR - 2001": "Science and Application in Rational Air Consumption" St. Petersburg, Russia, June 6-8, 2001
• Fourth Symposium on the Urban Environment, 20-24 May 2002, Norfolk, Virg
• Conference on Climate Change and the Built Environment, Provisional date 8th and 9th April, 2002, Tyndall Centre North, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UMIST, England

 

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• Front page Typical macroscopical and microscopical characteristics of ozone induced symptoms in broadleaved species. Intercostal pigmentations of variable size and colour appear on the adaxial side of older leaves in the sun crown following a sunny and ozone-rich period (left Prunus serotina Ehrh.). Transverse section through the leaf show injury in the palisade parenchyma with necrotic cells in the centre of symptoms and several changes in the neighbouring cells, including the accumulation of secondary compounds (phenolics) which are responsible for the eye-visible leaf colour changes (right Viburnum lantana L.; Coriphosphine stain viewed under blue light).

  Pierre Vollenweider, E-mail: vollenwe@wsl.ch

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