International Cooperative Programme on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops
Task Force Meetings
The 24th Task Force Meeting will be hosted by the Forschungsstelle für Umweltbeobachtung (FUB) - Research Group for Environmental Monitoring - in Rapperswil, Switzerland, from 31 January - 2 February 2011. Further details will follow in the autumn. * * * * *
The 23rd Task Force Meeting was hosted by Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (CODA-CERVA) in Tervuren, Belgium from 1 - 3 February 2010. Download the book of abstracts, minutes and copies of presentations below.
Programme ( with links to copies of presentations from each session) * * * * * The 22nd Task Force Meeting was hosted by the Institute of Biodiversity at the Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute (vTI) and held in Braunschweig, Germany, 2 - 4 February 2009. Please click below to download the book of abstracts or minutes of the meeting and to view the oral presentations.
Presentations General - Carsten Thoroe - vTI - Matti Johansson – News from the Convention Secretariat - Till Spranger – Report from the ICP Modelling and Mapping - Harry Harmens et al. – An overview of the achievements of the ICP Vegetation in 2008 - Hans Weigel et al. – Overview of research activities at the Institute of Biodiversity - Jürgen Franzaring et al. – Establishing a European standard for biomonitoring - The grass culture method
Ozone (SO2)
- Patrick Büker et al. – Impact of air pollution on crops in South Asia and southern Africa - Seraina Bassin et al. – Effects of combined ozone and nitrogen deposition on yield, species composition, and the performance of individual plant species of a sub-alpine pasture - Kirsten Wyness et al. – Ozone and nitrogen controls on carbon allocation within two semi-natural plant species - Ludger Grünhage et al. – Ozone risk assessment for winter wheat at local scale: Evaluation of the UNECE flux approach - Jürg Fuhrer et al. – Ozone flux in alpine grassland - Patrick Büker et al. – Development and provisional application of a multi-layer grassland flux model - Felicity Hayes et al. – A flux-effect relationship for above- and below-ground impacts of ozone on two semi-natural grassland species - Ignacio González Fernández et al. – Modelling stomatal ozone flux of dehesa annual grasslands in central Spain - Gina Mills et al. – Results of the bean experiment 2008 - Karine Vandermeiren et al. – Impact of tropospheric ozone on food and feed quality of Brassica species (OFFQ) - Elmien Heyneke et al. – Interaction between SO2 fumigation and drought stress on growth, photosynthesis and symbiotic nitrogen fixation in soybean using an open-top chamber facility - Gina Mills et al . – Summary of Ozone sessions
Heavy Metals
- Harry Harmens et al. – Spatial and temporal trends in heavy metal accumulation in mosses in Europe (1990-2005) - Ilia Ilyin – Modelled EMEP heavy metal deposition vs. moss measurements: Evaluation of spatial patterns and long-term temporal trends - Winfried Schroeder et al. – Europe-wide analysis of factors influencing the spatial variation of cadmium, lead and mercury concentrations in mosses - Eiliv Steinnes – Strong and weak points of the moss biomonitoring technique for metal deposition studies as illustrated from 30 years experience in Norway - Harry Harmens et al. – Uncertainties in the European moss data - Marina Frontasyeva et al. – Moss biomonitoring of long-lived radionuclides in Belarus:20 years after Chernobyl - Zdravko Spiric et al. – Summary of moss biomonitoring of trace elements in Croatia - Lotti Thöni et al. – Response of mosses to atmospheric deposition of eight metals in Bulgaria and Switzerland - surveys 1990-2005 - Ivan Suchara et al. – Landscape factors significantly controlling element content distribution in mosses in the Czech Republic - Sébastien Lebond et al. - Biomonitoring of air quality in Europe using mosses - Dinesh Saxena et al. - Biomonitoring of heavy metals using mosses in India - Harry Harmens et al. – Summary of Heavy Metal & Nitrogen Sessions
Nitrogen
- Sébastien Leblond et al. – Atmospheric deposition versus element concentration in mosses: case of nitrogen and other elements - Harry Harmens et al. – Spatial trends in nitrogen concentrations in mosses across Europe in 2005/2006 - Harald Zechmeister et al. – Total nitrogen content and δ15N signatures in moss tissue: Indicative value for nitrogen deposition patterns and source allocation on a nation-wide scale - Karsten Mohr – Biomonitoring of nitrogen pollution with bryophytes – possibilities and limitations - Willy Werner et al. – Nitrogen concentrations and δ15N-ratios in epiphytic lichen Xanthoria parietina in correlation to nitrogen deposition rates and δ15N-ratios of colonised tree bark
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The 21st Task Force Meeting was hosted by the Muhos Research Unit of the Finnish Forest Research Institute and held in Oulu, Finland, 26 - 29 February 2008. Please click below to download the book of abstracts or minutes of the meeting.
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Other Task Force Meeting minutes:
20th Task Force Meeting of the ICP Vegetation, Dubna, Russian Federation, March, 2007 19th Task Force Meeting of the ICP Vegetation, Caernarfon, UK, January, 2006 18th Task Force Meeting of the ICP Vegetation, Almería, Spain, February, 2005 17th Task Force Meeting of the ICP Vegetation, Kalamata, Greece, February, 2004
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