Research Catalog

Title

Air pollutants and the leaf cuticle / edited by Kevin E. Percy [and others].

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Percy, Kevin E.
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Air Pollutants and the Leaf Cuticle (1993 : Fredericton, N.B.)

Description

ix, 395 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series G, Ecological sciences ; vol. 36

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series G, Ecological sciences ; no. 36.

Subjects

• Plant cuticle > Congresses
• Plants > Effect of air pollution on > Congresses
• Leaves > Physiology > Congresses

Note

• "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Air Pollutants and the Leaf Cuticle, held at Fredericton, Canada, October 4-8, 1993"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Plant Cuticles: Physicochemical Characteristics and Biosynthesis / P. J. Holloway -- Modelling Pollutant Deposition to Vegetation: Scaling Down from the Canopy to the Biochemical Level / G. E. Taylor and J. V. H. Constable -- Air Pollutants and Plant Cuticles: Mechanisms of Gas and Water Transport, and Effects on Water Permeability / G. Kerstiens -- Ion Transport Across Leaf Cuticles: Concepts and Mechanisms / M. T. Tyree -- Effects of Air Pollutants on Epicuticular Wax Chemical Composition / K. E. Percy, C. J. McQuattie and J. A. Rebbeck -- Effects of Air Pollutants on Epicuticular Wax Structure / S. Huttunen -- Leaf Wettability as a Measure of Air Pollution Effects / R. Jagels -- Air Pollutants and the Cuticle: Implications for Plant Physiology / M. Riederer, R. Jetter, C. Markstadter and L. Schreiber -- Cuticular Characteristics in the Detection of Plant Stress Due to Air Pollution - New Problems in the Use of These Cuticular Characteristics / J.-P. Garrec.
• Evaluation of Pollutant Critical Levels from Leaf Surface Characteristics / J. N. Cape -- New Analytical Techniques for Cuticle Chemical Analysis / H.-R. Schulten -- Leaf Cuticles as Mediators of Environmental Influences: New Developments in the Use of Isolated Cuticles / T. Scherbatskoy -- The Effect of the Environment on the Structure, Quantity and Composition of Spruce Needle Wax / M. S. Gunthardt-Goerg -- Effect of Ozone and Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Cuticular Membrane Ultrastructure of Yellow Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) / C. J. McQuattie and J. Rebbeck -- Spatial Distribution of Sulphate Uptake by Wind-Damaged Beech Leaves / C. E. Jeffree, J. Grace and S. P. Hoad -- Effects of UV-B Radiation on Wax Biosynthesis / J. Barnes, N. Paul, K. Percy, P. Broadbent, C. McLaughlin, P. Mullineaux, G. Creissen and A. Wellburn -- Effects of Acid Rain and Surfactant Pollution on the Foliar Structure of Some Tree Species / P. Raddi, S. Moricca and E. Paoletti.
• Fourier Transform IR Studies on the Interaction of Selected Chemicals with Isolated Cuticles / P. Luque, F. J. Ramirez, A. Heredia and M. J. Bukovac -- Effects of Wind and Simulated Acid Mist on Leaf Cuticles / S. P. Hoad, C. E. Jeffree and J. Grace -- Measurements and Modelling of Ozone Deposition to Wet Foliage / J. D. Fuentes, G. den Hartog, H. H. Neumann and T. J. Gillespie -- The Effect of Age, Canopy Position and Elevation on Foliar Wettability of Picea rubens and Abies balsamea: Implications for Pollutant-Induced Epicuticular Wax Degradation / R. L. Boyce -- Effect of Elevation and Foliar Age on Maximum Leaf Resistance to Water Vapor Diffusion in Conifers of the Central Rocky Mountains, USA / J. L. Hadley and W. K. Smith -- The Effects of Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) Needle Surface Wax Layer Structure on Water Loss and Uptake of [superscript 14]CO[subscript 2] and [superscript 35]SO[subscript 2] / S. Godzik and T. Staszewski.
• Effects of Acid Mist on Needle Surface and Water Status of Picea abies / A. Esch and K. Mengel -- Effect of High Dose SO[subscript 2] and Ethylene Exposure on the Structure of Epicuticular Wax of Picea pungens / J. Partrie and V. Berg -- Preliminary Observations on the Influence on Increasing Atmospheric CO[subscript 2] Levels on Cuticular Waxes of Spruce Needles / B. Prugel and G. Lognay -- Effects of Ozone Exposures on Epicuticular Wax of Ponderosa Pine Needles / A. Bytnerowicz and M. Turunen -- Observations on the Effects of Acid Rain Treatment on Needle Surfaces of Scots Pine and Norway Spruce Seedlings / M. Turunen, S. Huttunen and J. Back -- Problems in Interpreting Effects of Air Pollutants on Spruce Epicuticular Waxes / E. Bermadinger-Stabentheiner -- Recent Advances Using Electron Beam Analysis to Detect Cuticular Changes Induced by Air Pollution / C. R. Krause.
• Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Pine Needle Surfaces Exposed to Different Air Pollution Sources / T. Staszewski, S. Godzik and P. Poborski -- A Comparison of Epicuticular Wax of Pinus sylvestris Needles from Three Sites in Ireland / A. Donnelly and P. Dowding -- Characteristics and Geographical Distribution of the Changes in Scots Pine Needle Surfaces in Finnish Lapland and the Kola Peninsula / M. Turunen, S. Huttunen, J. Lamppu and P. Huhtala -- Forest Health Monitoring by the Canadian Forest Service: Now and the Future / J. P. Hall.

ISBN

• 3540581464 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
• 0387581464 (New York : acid-free paper)

LCCN

94021967

OCLC

• 30665600
• ocm30665600

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries