AIRFRESH

International Conference "Air Pollution Threats to Plant Ecosystems"

11-15 October, 2021
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Paphos, Cyprus

The conference entitled “Air Pollution Threats to Plant Ecosystems”, organized by Dr Pierre Sicard was held in Paphos (Cyprus) on 11-15 October 2021.

Dr Pierre Sicard giving the opening speech

The conference gathered 92 participants from 27 countries, with 62 talks and 27 posters, to share the current state of knowledge and discuss scientific gaps in the understanding of the interaction of climate change, air pollution and atmospheric deposition and their integrated effects on forest ecosystems.

APPC2021 - Conference room
APPC2021 - Group photo

The session 2 “Urban green: sinks or sources of air pollution & climate change” has been organized in the framework of the AIRFRESH project (LIFE19 ENV/FR/00086), including presentations focusing on the effects of the main urban pollutants on plants as well as estimations of the mitigation potential by urban plants in urban and peri-urban environment.

Coulibaly et al., “Detection, Classification and Estimation of Structure Variables of Individual Urban Tree from Very High-Resolution Satellite Images”.
Manzini et al., “Assessment of tree species ability to remove atmospheric pollutants in urban environment within the AIRFRESH project”

The session 3 “Plant ecosystems in a changing world: monitoring, modeling, and risk assessment” has been led by Dr Alessandra De Marco (ENEA).

Hoshika et al., “To develop stomatal conductance modeling under elevated ozone and drought in Mediterranean forest trees”
De Marco et al., “Assessment of forest yield losses in Northern Hemisphere”.
APPC2021 - Posters exhibition