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Air pollutants affect a forest via both its green surfaces and its soil. A great deal has been published on air pollution effects under northern conditions. Scandinavian researchers assume that boreal forests may respond very favourably to increased temperature and moisture, achieving improved productivity and greater biomass (1,2). On the other hand, boreal forest ecosystems are sensitive to pollution damage because of the harsh climate and the restricted range of species.The effects of the present level of acid deposition on the Scandinavian forests have existed for about 30 years (3), but the documentation of early diagnostic symptoms and the development of the injuries has been poor in the case of ambient air pollution. More information has been published recently on forest damage symptoms and the cause- related monitoring of forest damage (4,5), and the coincidence of acid deposition with severe climatic conditions has now been adopted as a topic of experimental ecophysiological research into the response of trees to multiple stress factors.
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Huttunen, S. (1992). Responses of Northern Conifers to Changes in Pollution and Climate. In: Teller, A., Mathy, P., Jeffers, J.N.R. (eds) Responses of Forest Ecosystems to Environmental Changes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2866-7_51
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