Assessment of Crop Loss From Air Pollutants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Raymond G. Wilhour

      Pages 1-5

3. The Need for Crop Loss Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

      PDF

   2. Crop Assessment: International Needs and Opportunities

      • Donald A. Holt

      Pages 9-26

   3. Research Approaches to Pollutant Crop Loss Functions

      • D. P. Ormrod, B. A. Marie, O. B. Allen

      Pages 27-44

   4. The NCLAN Program for Crop Loss Assessment

      • Eric M. Preston, David T. Tingey

      Pages 45-62

4. Meteorology, Atmosphric Chemistry and Regional Monitoring—Extrapolation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

      PDF

   2. Meteorology—Atmospheric Chemistry and Long Range Transport

      • A. P. Altshuller

      Pages 65-89

   3. The Use of Geostatistics to Characterize Regional Ozone Exposures

      • H. Peter Knudsen, Allen S. Lefohn

      Pages 91-105

   4. Ozone Exposure Indices: Concepts for Development and Evaluation of their Use

      • W. E. Hogsett, David T. Tingey, E. Henry Lee

      Pages 107-138

5. Yield Assessment Using Field Approaches for Measuring Crop Loss

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

      PDF

   2. Factors Influencing Ozone Dose—Yield Response Relationships in Open-top Field Chamber Studies

      • A. S. Heagle, L. W. Kress, P. J. Temple, R. J. Kohut, J. E. Miller, H. E. Heggestad

      Pages 141-179

   3. The Use of Open Field Systems to Assess Yield Response to Gaseous Pollutants

      • A. R. McLeod, C. K. Baker

      Pages 181-210

   4. Estimating Changes in Plant Growth and Yield due to Stress

      • J. A. Laurence, D. S. Lang

      Pages 211-224

6. The Value of Physiological Understanding in Crop Loss Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

      PDF

   2. Pollutant Deposition to Individual Leaves and Plant Canopies: Sites of Regulation and Relationship to Injury

      • George E. Taylor Jr., Paul J. Hanson, Dennis D. Baldocchi

      Pages 227-257

   3. Biochemical Mechanisms of Pollutant Stress

      • Robert L. Heath

      Pages 259-286

   4. Effects on Photosynthesis, Carbon Allocation, and Plant Growth Associated With Air Pollutant Stress

      • Joseph E. Miller

      Pages 287-314

7. Abiotic and Biotic Interactive Stress Factors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 315-315

      PDF

   2. Problems of Crop Loss Assessment When There is Exposure to Two or More Gaseous Pollutants

      • T. A. Mansfield, D. C. McCune

      Pages 317-344

During late 1985, the Research Management Committee (RMC) of the National Crop Loss Assessment Network (NCLAN) decided the most ap­ propriate way to bring the NCLAN program to a successful conclusion was to hold an international conference. It was envisaged as an opportunity to present an overview of results from the NCLAN program and as a chance to view the results in the context of ongoing research by members of the international community. * Although we wanted the Conference to have an assessment orientation, it was also intended for the Conference to focus on current state-of-knowledge. The Conference was designed to overview the needs of crop loss assessment, current approaches to assessment, progress in the development of predictive models, the use of the information for economic predictions, and the application of the data in policy decisions. Every effort was made to assure a broad representation of ideas. The Conference program was developed to evaluate major issues that address regional/national assessments of impacts of atmospheric pollutants on agricultural production. Sessions were structured to address specific issues by invited speakers, and by contributed papers and posters. First, background needs for doing loss assessment research including specific approaches and a rather detailed review of the NCLAN program were addressed (Session I). Session II addressed the needs for defining the exposure environment (e. g. extrapolating to regional concentrations and exposure characterization). Field approaches for determining crop loss were reviewed in Session III.

• Pathogen
• photosynthesis
• pollution
• regulation
• transport
• ecotoxicology

• USDA-Agricultural Research Service, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

  Walter W. Heck

• University of California, Riverside, USA

  O. Clifton Taylor

• US Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, USA

  David T. Tingey

Policies and ethics