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His research is focused on the interaction between vegetation and the atmosphere. A large fraction of his work has been related to ground level-ozone: deposition, effects on vegetation and its distribution in the landscape near the Earth surface. His ozone-related work includes meta-analyses and derivation response functions for effects of ozone on crops.
He also investigated of the effect of elevated carbon dioxide on agricultural crops regarding growth and nutrient concentration. Finally, he works with traffic related air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and particles. This part of his research covers the importance of urban greenery for the city environment by removing air pollutants.
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Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
His laboratory seeks to understand the ecology, physiology, genetics/genomics and pivotal species underlying important soil microbial processes in agroecosystems as well as their responses to exogenous interventions. With the increasing availability of genome sequencing, they are now taking genomic approaches to understand the underlying ecological processes governing and influencing microbial community in agroecosystem. Based on the free-air concentration enrichment (FACE) platform, his laboratory evaluated microbial community variations in response to elevated ground-level O3, their divergences between rice cultivars and the possible feedbacks to soil fertility and crop productivity. Recently, they are trying to disentangle the ecological processes governing microbial community in response to global changes and to unravel the environmental factors controlling the ecological processes influencing soil microbial community assembly.
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He studies the exchange of greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollutants between plants and the atmosphere in response to abiotic stress such as high temperature and drought, and exposure to pollutants emitted by anthropogenic sources. He integrates laboratory and field observations at the leaf-level using plant enclosures connected to measuring sensors with observations at the whole tree level, e.g. use of "sap flow" sensors to measure the transport of water inside the stems and branches. He also masters micrometeorological techniques like Eddy Covariance to measure fluxes at the ecosystem level. He is internationally recognized as an expert in plant-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases and Volatile Organic Compounds.
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Professor of Plant pathology, is interested in phytotoxicology since 1975. His research team is involved in studies on the impact of air pollution on plant life, with special regard to ecophysiology of ozone stressed forest plants, shadow trees, lichens and officinal herbs, tritrophic relationships, secondary metabolism, quality of products and bases of differential responses, in addition to biological monitoring, with related campaigns of environmental education. Special attention is paid to photosynthetic gas exchange and other non-invasive methodologies, such as chlorophyll fluorescence in plants subjected to multiple stresses such as those connected to the global environmental change. Over the years, its attention has been turned to explore biosynthesis and accumulation of defense compounds in plants subjected to oxidative stress.
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Emeritus professor of plant ecophysiology, he is mainly interested in the impact of abiotic stresses on higher plants. His research has been related to the response of leaf cells of crops and trees to environmental constraints (ozone, elevated CO2, drought...). His ozone-related work has concerned the regulation of key enzymes of carbon metabolism (CO2 fixation and utilization of photosynthates) in response to the pollutant. Based on cellular and molecular techniques, his laboratory investigates the defense mechanisms developed by plants to cope with ozone attack, including detoxification, stomatal functioning, and synthesis of secondary compounds. He has tirelessly taught to young students and researchers the story of the advance in knowledge in the field of plant biology, insisting on the decisive breakthroughs
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