Examining the impacts of air pollution across the tropics
An international collaboration between the University of Exeter (UK) and James Cook University (Australia) on the impacts of air quality on plant productivity across the tropics.
Ozone (O3) impacts on tropical plants
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Project papers
- Farha, M.N., et al. 2025. Examining ozone effects on the tropical C4 crop Sorghum bicolor. PeerJ 13:e18844.
- Cheesman, A.W., et al. 2024. Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure. Nature Geoscience 17, 1003-1007.
- Brown, F., et al. 2024. Performance evaluation of UKESM1 for surface ozone across the pan-tropics. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 24, 12537–12555.
- Cheesman, A.W., et al. 2023. Impacts of ground-level ozone on sugarcane production. Science of The Total Environment. 904:166817.
- Farha, M.N., et al. 2023. Examining ozone susceptibility in the genus Musa (bananas). Functional Plant Biology. 50:1073-1085.
- Vieira, I., et al. H. 2023. Global reanalysis products cannot reproduce seasonal and diurnal cycles of tropospheric ozone in the Congo Basin. Atmospheric Environment. 304:119773.
- Brown, F., et al. 2022. The ozone–climate penalty over South America and Africa by 2100. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 22:12331-12352
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