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dc.contributor.authorGarcía de Jalón, S.
dc.contributor.authorBurgess, P.J
dc.contributor.authorCuriel Yuste, J.
dc.contributor.authorMoreno, G.
dc.contributor.authorGraves, A.
dc.contributor.authorPalma, J.H.N.
dc.contributor.authorCrous-Duran, J.
dc.contributor.authorKay, S.
dc.contributor.authorChiabai, A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-29T09:01:40Z
dc.date.available2020-10-29T09:01:40Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationAGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY: 278: 107648 (2019)es_ES
dc.identifier.issn0168-1923
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/47383
dc.description.abstractThere is increased interest in the role of trees to reduce air pollution and thereby improve human health and well-being. This study determined the removal of air pollutants by dry deposition of trees across the Basque Country and estimated its annual economic value. A model that calculates the hourly dry deposition of NO2, O3, SO2, CO and PM10 on trees at a 1 km x 1 km resolution at a regional scale was developed. The calculated mean annual rates of removal of air pollution across various land uses were 12.9 kg O3 ha-1, 12.7 kg PM10 ha-1, 3.0 kg NO2 ha-1, 0.8 kg SO2 ha-1 and 0.2 kg CO ha-1. The results were then categorised according to land use in order to determine how much each land use category contributed to reducing air pollution and to determine to what extent trees provided pollution reduction benefits to society. Despite not being located in the areas of highest pollutions, coniferous forests, which cover 25% of the land, were calculated to absorb 21% of the air pollution. Compared to other land uses, coniferous forests were particularly effective in removing air pollution because of their high tree cover density and the duration of leaf life-span. The total economic value provided by the trees in reducing these pollutants in terms of health benefits was estimated to be 60 million yr-1 which represented around 0.09% of the Gross Domestic Product of the Basque Country in 2016. Whilst most health impacts from air pollution are in urban areas the results indicate that most air pollution is removed in rural areas. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipSilvestre García de Jalón, Jorge Curiel Yuste and Aline Chiabai acknowledge support from the Basque Government through the BERC 2018-2021 program and from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through the BC3 María de Maeztu excellence accreditation ( MDM-2017-0714 )es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherElsevieres_ES
dc.relationEUS/BERC/BERC.2018-2021es_ES
dc.relationES/1PE/MDM-2017-0714es_ES
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/NERC/NE/L001195/1;EUS/BERC/BERC.2014-2017es_ES
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/*
dc.subjectDeposition velocityes_ES
dc.subjectHealthes_ES
dc.subjectLand coveres_ES
dc.subjectPollutantes_ES
dc.subjectVegetationes_ES
dc.titleDry deposition of air pollutants on trees at regional scale: A case study in the Basque Countryes_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.rights.holder© 2019 Elsevier B.V.es_ES
dc.rights.holderAtribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 España*
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107648es_ES
dc.contributor.funderBasque Government, Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities


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