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Vegetation and Soils

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Air Pollution, Acid Rain and the Environment

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The Watt Committee report (1984) concluded that SO2, NO2, O3 and acid precipitation all had the potential to contribute to plant injury. It judged the most serious gaps in our knowledge to be the significance of ambient levels of acid precipitation when accompanied by gaseous pollutants, and the interactions between pollutants and the many natural stresses imposed by the environment. That still remains true, although our understanding of the way pollutants act on soils and vegetation has advanced somewhat since 1984.

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    William Binns

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Binns, W. (1988). Vegetation and Soils. In: Mellanby, K. (eds) Air Pollution, Acid Rain and the Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2735-3_2

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