Biology, Controls and Models of Tree Volatile Organic Compound Emissions

Plant-driven volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions play a major role in atmospheric chemistry, including ozone and photochemical smog formation in the troposphere, and they extend the atmospheric lifetime of the key greenhouse gas, methane. Furthermore, condensation of photo-oxidation products of BVOCs leads to formation of secondary organic aerosols with profound implications for the earth's solar radiation budget and climate. Trees represent the plant life form that most contributes to BVOC emissions, which gives global forests a unique role in regulating atmospheric chemistry.
Written by leading experts in the field, the focus is on recent advancements in understanding the controls on plant-driven BVOC emissions, including efforts to quantitatively predict emissions using computer models, particularly on elicitation of emissions under biotic and abiotic stresses, molecular mechanisms of volatile synthesis and emission and the role of emissions in plant stress tolerance.

• Biogenic volatiles
• Biosphere/atmosphere interactions
• Emission modelling
• Terpenoids
• Tree emissions
• Tree Biology
• air pollution and air quality

• Institute of Agricultural and, Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

  Ülo Niinemets

• School of Natural Resources and, the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Russell K. Monson

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