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Air pollution and vegetation: ICP Vegetation annual report 2014/2015

The International Cooperative Programme on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops (ICP Vegetation) was established in 1987, initially with the aim to assess the impacts of air pollutants on crops, but in later years also on (semi-)natural vegetation. The ICP Vegetation is led by the UK and has its Programme Coordination Centre at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) in Bangor. The ICP Vegetation is one of seven ICPs and Task Forces that report to the Working Group on Effects (WGE) of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP Convention) on the effects of atmospheric pollutants on different components of the environment (e.g. forests, fresh waters, materials) and health in Europe and North-America. The Convention provides the essential framework for controlling and reducing damage to human health and the environment caused by transboundary air pollution. So far, eight international Protocols have been drafted by the Convention to deal with major long-range air pollution problems. ICP Vegetation focuses on the following air pollution problems: quantifying the risks to vegetation posed by ozone pollution and the atmospheric deposition of heavy metals, nitrogen and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to vegetation. In addition, the ICP Vegetation studies the interactive impacts of air pollutants (e.g. ozone and nitrogen) on vegetation in a changing climate. The ICP Vegetation is also keen to enhance participation of countries in South-East Europe (SEE) and in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA). Hence, a new Moss Survey Coordination Centre was established in 2014 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russian Federation. The head of the new Moss Survey Coordination Centre is Marina Frontasyeva, who also assists the ICP Vegetation Programme Coordination Centre with the translation of various documents into Russian. The ICP Vegetation comprises an enthusiastic group of scientists from 50 countries (Table 1.1), including scientists from outside the UNECE region as the ICP Vegetation stimulates outreach activities to other regions in the world. The contact details for lead scientists for each group are included in Annex 1. In many countries, several other scientists (too numerous to mention individually) also contribute to the biomonitoring programmes, analysis, modelling and data synthesis procedures of the ICP Vegetation.

Air Pollution; Natural Vegetation; moss; biomonitoring; ozone; nitrogen

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