Trends in urban air pollution over the last two decades: A global perspective

P Sicard, E Agathokleous, SC Anenberg… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Ground-level ozone (O 3), fine particles (PM 2.5), and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) are
the most harmful urban air pollutants regarding human health effects. Here, we aimed at …

Pathways to engineering the phyllosphere microbiome for sustainable crop production

C Zhan, H Matsumoto, Y Liu, M Wang - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Current disease resistance breeding, which is largely dependent on the exploitation of
resistance genes in host plants, faces the serious challenges of rapidly evolving …

Urban population exposure to air pollution in Europe over the last decades

P Sicard, E Agathokleous, A De Marco… - Environmental Sciences …, 2021 - Springer
Background The paper presents an overview of air quality in the 27 member countries of the
European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (previous EU-28), from 2000 to 2017. We …

Global environmental implications of atmospheric methane removal through chlorine-mediated chemistry-climate interactions

Q Li, D Meidan, P Hess, JA Añel, CA Cuevas… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Atmospheric methane is both a potent greenhouse gas and photochemically active, with
approximately equal anthropogenic and natural sources. The addition of chlorine to the …

Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities

MS Fenoglio, A Calviño, E González… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
1. Urbanisation is one of the main land‐use changes behind global insect collapse. Despite
that previous studies have described the negative effects of urbanisation on insect …

Ozone weekend effect in cities: Deep insights for urban air pollution control

P Sicard, E Paoletti, E Agathokleous… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Studying weekend-weekday variation in ground-level ozone (O 3) allows one to better
understand O 3 formation conditions, with a potential for developing effective strategies for O …

Ecological risks in a 'plastic'world: a threat to biological diversity?

E Agathokleous, I Iavicoli, D Barceló… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics pollution is predicted to increase in the coming decades, raising concerns
about its effects on living organisms. Although the effects of microplastics on individual …

Assessing surface ozone risk to human health and forests over time in Poland

A Cakaj, E Qorri, F Coulibaly, A De Marco… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hourly ground-level ozone (O 3) data from 52 monitoring stations in Poland were analyzed
over a ten-year pre-COVID19 period (2010–2019) to map and define areas at risk for human …

Ground-level ozone over time: an observation-based global overview

P Sicard - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Tropospheric ozone (O 3) pollution is a major air quality issue for human health, vegetation,
and climate worldwide. Through an extensive literature review, this paper reports robust …

Warming and elevated ozone induce tradeoffs between fine roots and mycorrhizal fungi and stimulate organic carbon decomposition

Y Qiu, L Guo, X Xu, L Zhang, K Zhang, M Chen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Climate warming and elevated ozone (eO3) are important climate change components that
can affect plant growth and plant-microbe interactions. However, the resulting impact on soil …