Trace Gas Exchange in Forest Ecosystems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Biological Processes Involved in Trace Gas Exchange

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Microbiological and biochemical background of production and consumption of NO and N2O in soil

      • Ralf Conrad

      Pages 3-33

   3. NO2, NO and HNO3 Uptake by Trees

      • Alan R. Wellburn

      Pages 35-52

   4. Production and consumption of NH 4 + and NH3 in trees

      • John Pearson, Janet Woodall, Clough Elisabeth, Kent H. Nielsen, Jan K. Schjørring

      Pages 53-77

   5. Isoprene and terpene biosynthesis

      • Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler, Johannes G. Zeidler

      Pages 79-99

   6. Biosynthesis of aldehydes and organic acids

      • Jürgen Kreuzwieser

      Pages 101-114

3. Exchange of Trace Gases at the Soil-Atmosphere Interface

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. NO, NO2 and N2O

      • Rainer Gasche, Hans Papen

      Pages 117-140

   3. CH4

      • Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

      Pages 141-156

4. Exchange of Trace Gases at the Tree-Atmosphere Interface

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Ammonia exchange at the tree-atmosphere interface

      • Kent Høier Nielsen, Jan Kofod Schjørring, Jan Willem Erisman, John Pearson

      Pages 159-173

   3. Isoprene and other isoprenoids

      • Rainer Steinbrecher, Alex Geunther, Guenther Seufert

      Pages 175-191

   4. Aldehydes and organic acids

      • Jürgen Kreuzwieser

      Pages 193-209

   5. Ozone

      • Gerhard Wieser

      Pages 211-226

5. Forest Canopies as Sources and Sinks of Atmospheric Trace Gases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. Scaling up to the ecosystem level

      • Dennis D. Baldocchi, Kell Wilson

      Pages 229-242

6. Atmospheric Chemistry of Trace Gases Exchanged in Forest Ecosystems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Nitrogen oxides

      • J. Neil Cape

      Pages 245-255

   3. Ozone and volatile organic compounds: isoprene, terpenes, aldehydes, and organic acids

      • William R. Stockwell, Renate Forkel

      Pages 257-276

This volume summarizes the current knowledge on the exchange of trace gases between forests and the atmosphere with the restriction that exclusively carbon and nitrogen compounds are included. For this purpose the volume brings together and interconnects knowledge from different disciplines of biological and atmospheric sciences. It covers microbial and plant processes involved in the production and consumption of these trace gases; the exchange processes between forest soils and vegetation on the one hand, and the atmosphere on the other hand; the fate of the trace gases exchanged inside the atmosphere as well as environmental influences on the exchange of trace gases between forest ecosystems and the atmosphere. With this interdisciplinary approach the volume provides the background for an evaluation of the exchange of trace gases between forest ecosystems and the atmosphere and man-made disturbances of this exchange.

• atmosphere
• atmospheric chemistry
• biological
• biosynthesis
• chemistry
• ecosystem
• environment
• forest
• gas exchange
• influence
• iron
• ozone
• plant
• soil
• vegetation

"I would highly recommend this book to all scientists who are engaged in tree physiology and also to forestry students. I encourage environment protection students to study the issue of acidification of ecosystems from sulfur and nitrogen deposition and the consequences of this process on forest ecosystems (temperate forest and tropical forests) in the global scale. Moreover, they will find much interesting information concerning tropospheric ozone as an important component of photochemical smog, which induces gene expression in deciduous and coniferous trees."
(Acta physiologiae plantarum, 25:4, 2003)

• Abteilung für Bodenmikrobiologie, Fraunhofer Institut für Atmosphärishe Umweltforschung, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

  Rainer Gasche, Hans Papen

• Institut für Forstbotanik und Baumphysiologie, Albert-Ludwig Universität, Freiburg, Germany

  Heinz Rennenberg

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