Promoting the potential of flux-measuring stations in urban parks: An innovative case study in Naples, Italy

0484905 - ÚVGZ 2019 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Guidolotti, G. - Calfapietra, Carlo - Pallozzi, E. - De Simoni, G. - Esposito, R. - Mattioni, M. - Nicolini, G. - Matteucci, G. - Brugnoli, E.
Promoting the potential of flux-measuring stations in urban parks: An innovative case study in Naples, Italy.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Roč. 233, feb (2017), s. 153-162. ISSN 0168-1923. E-ISSN 1873-2240
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LO1415; GA MŠMT(CZ) LD13031
Institutional support: RVO:86652079
Keywords : eddy covariance measurements * net ecosystem exchange * carbon-dioxide fluxes * ozone deposition * air-quality * mediterranean forest * surface fluxes * climate-change * quercus-ilex * water-vapor * Urban forest * Eddy covariance * Greenhouse gases * bvoc * Air pollutants
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Impact factor: 4.039, year: 2017

Urban forests and parks are living systems integrated in highly anthropic areas, where they establish close interactions with all the other systems around. Thanks to those interactions, urban forests provide many ecosystem services to people and to the whole urban environment. One of the most important is the absorption of chemically and radiatively-active trace gases and thus the effect on local air quality. Beyond the main greenhouse gases (CO2, H2O and CH4), in urban areas a relevant role is played by the photochemical pollution mainly constituted by O-3 and particulate matters. Despite their importance, experimental sites monitoring trace gases fluxes in urban forest ecosystems and parks are still scarce.
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