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Ground-level ozone (O3) levels are expected to increase over the twenty-first century, particularly in the region of East Asia. We performed an O3 flux-based risk assessment of C sequestering capacity in an old cool temperate deciduous forest, consisting of O3-sensitive Japanese beech (Fagus crenata), and in a warm temperate deciduous and evergreen forest dominated by O3-tolerant Konara oak (Quercus serrata), based on long-term CO2 flux observations. Light-saturated gross primary production, as a measure of C sequestering capacity, declined earlier in the late-growth season with increasing cumulative O3 uptake, suggesting an earlier autumn senescence in the O3-sensitive beech forest, but not in the O3-tolerant oak forest.
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Japan’s Ministry of the Environment financially supported this study under a program of the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (5B-1105, 2011–2013). We greatly appreciate Iwate prefecture and Kyoto prefecture for providing ground-based ozone data.
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Kitao, M. et al. (2017). Flux-Based O3 Risk Assessment for Japanese Temperate Forests. In: Izuta, T. (eds) Air Pollution Impacts on Plants in East Asia. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56438-6_8
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