Plant Stress from Air Pollution (Hardback)

In this book the authors discuss the real and potential effects of air pollutants on the whole plant and plant communities and explain the effects on the basis of fundamental biochemical and physiological mechanisms. The information is presented from an historic perspective. Air pollution biology overlaps a number of fields including agronomy, biochemistry, ecology, entomology, forestry, horticulture, meteorology, plant pathology, soil science etc, and the text is intended to provide guidance to decision-makers in the many regulating and research agencies.