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Author:   W.W. Heck ,  O.C. Taylor ,  Tingey
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1988 ed.
Weight:   1.930kg
ISBN:  

9781851662449

ISBN 10:   1851662448
Pages:   552
Publication Date:   31 December 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. The Need For Crop Loss Assessment.- 1. Crop Assessment: International Needs and Opportunities.- 2. Research Approaches to Pollutant Crop Loss Functions.- 3. The NCLAN Program for Crop Loss Assessment.- II. Meteorology, Atmospheric Chemistry and Regional Monitoring—Extrapolation.- 4. Meteorology—Atmospheric Chemistry and Long-range Transport.- 5. The Use of Geostatistics to Characterize Regional Ozone Exposures.- 6. Ozone Exposure Indices: Concepts for Development and Evaluation of their Use.- III. Yield Assessment Using Field Approaches for Measuring Crop Loss.- 7. Factors Influencing Ozone Dose—Yield Response Relationships in Open-top Field Chamber Studies.- 8. The Use of Open Field Systems to Assess Yield Response to Gaseous Pollutants.- 9. Estimating Changes in Plant Growth and Yield due to Stress.- IV. The Value Of Physiological Understanding in Crop Loss Assessment.- 10. Pollutant Deposition to Individual Leaves and Plant Canopies: Sites of Regulation and Relationship to Injury.- 11. Biochemical Mechanisms of Pollutant Stress.- 12. Effects on Photosynthesis, Carbon Allocation, and Plant Growth Associated With Air Pollutant Stress.- V. Abiotic and Biotic Interactive Stress Factors.- 13. Problems of Crop Loss Assessment When There is Exposure to Two or More Gaseous Pollutants.- 14. Drought Stress Applied During the Reproductive Phase Reduced Ozone-Induced Effects in Bush Bean.- 15. Effects of Air Pollutants on Interactions Between Plants, Insects, and Pathogens.- VI. Statistical and Simulated Modeling Approaches.- 16. Statistical Approaches to Assessing Crop Losses.- 17. Assessing the Mechanisms of Crop Loss from Air Pollutants With Process Models.- 18. Regional/National Crop Loss Assessment Modeling Approaches.- VII. Economic Considerations and PolicyImplications.- 19. Model Requirements for Economic Evaluations of Pollution Impacts Upon Agriculture.- 20. The NCLAN Economic Assessment: Approach, Findings and Implications.- 21. The European Open-top Chambers Programme: Objectives and Implementation.- 22. Policy Implications From Crop Loss Assessment Research—A United Kingdom Perspective.- 23. Policy Implications From Crop Loss Assessment Research—The US Perspective.- List of First Authors and Chairmen.- List of NCLAN Publications.

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