Issues in Ecology, Issue 14: Setting Limits: Using Air Pollution Thresholds to Protect and Restore U.S. Ecosystems

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The purpose of this report is to distill advances in the science of air pollution thresholds and to describe their use to assess, protect and manage the nation’s ecosystems and the vital services they provide. We focus here on the environmental impacts of nitrogen, sulfur, and mercury and refer to connections to climate change. The discussion draws on the published research of hundreds of scientists over the past several decades with a focus on U.S. ecosystems and lessons from Canada and Europe.

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Is Part Of	ESA's Issues in Ecology series.
Collection Link	http://www.esa.org/ecoed/index.php?P=AdvancedSearch&Q=Y&F1=%22Issues+...
Ecological Core Concept	Landscapes and larger scales Human impacts -- Climate change Ecosystems -- Biogeochemical cycling Applied ecology -- Management
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate upper division 15-16 Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	This report can be used for general information, classroom reading and discussion, and as a springboard for more information research. The report illustrates applications of ecology as it relates to our society and environment.
Keywords	air pollution, climate change, nitrogen, sulfur, mercury, ecosystem services
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	Tamara F. Blett Richard A. Haeuber Mark E. Fenn Linda H. Pardo Kathleen F. Lambert Gary M. Lovett Douglas A. Burns Dean S. Jeffries David C. Evers Charles T. Driscoll
Primary Author Affiliation	National Park Service; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; USDA Forest Service; USDA Forest Service; Harvard University; Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; U.S. Geological Survey; Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute; BioDiversity Research Institute; Syracuse University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Primary Author email	n/a
Rights	Copyright 2011 by Mark E. Fenn, Kathleen F. Lambert, Tamara F. Blett, Douglas A. Burns, Linda H. Pardo, Gary M. Lovett, Richard A. Haeuber, David C. Evers, Charles T. Driscoll, Dean S. Jeffries and the Ecological Society of America
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Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	2011-11-11

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