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Defining ecology as a system-theory oriented synthesis of both Earth and life sciences, this study aims at a coherent understanding of the chemical impact on the lower atmosphere and the characteristic types of terrestrial ecosystems. To this end, comprehensive flux-analytical and hierarchical modelling approaches were developed and consulted, which include a consideration of the specific physical and geographic boundary conditions of the processes involved. The first part of the text is devoted to fundamentals of environmental chemistry and ecology, while the second deals with the complex atmospheric pathways of anthropogenic chemicals. In the last part, the manifold interactions of these compounds or their metabolites with a soil-vegetation complex of ecosystems are described. Chapters on the impact of pollution on materials and a review of chemical fate modelling are included.

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