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Urban edge trees: Urban form and meteorology drive elemental carbon deposition to canopies and soils

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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
卷 314, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120197

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Air quality; Edge effects; Elemental carbon; Particulate matter; LiDAR; Throughfall

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  1. National Science Foundation [1552410]
  2. Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
  3. Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1552410] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Urban tree canopies play an important role in absorbing atmospheric elemental carbon (EC). The deposition of EC on trees is influenced by urban form characteristics, meteorological factors, and topography. The study found that urban edge trees significantly contribute to dry EC deposition, while rainfall and wind-driven rain from pollution sources drive throughfall EC deposition.
Urban tree canopies are a significant sink for atmospheric elemental carbon (EC)--an air pollutant that is a powerful climate-forcing agent and threat to human health. Understanding what controls EC deposition to urban trees is therefore important for evaluating the potential role of vegetation in air pollution mitigation strategies. We estimated wet, dry, and throughfall EC deposition for oak trees at 53 sites in Denton, TX. Spatial data and airborne discrete-return LiDAR were used to compute predictors of EC deposition, including urban form char-acteristics, and meteorologic and topographic factors. Dry and throughfall EC deposition varied 14-fold across this urban ecosystem and exhibited significant variability from spring to fall. Generalized additive modeling and multiple linear regression analyses showed that urban form strongly influenced tree-scale variability in dry EC deposition: traffic count as well as road length and building height within 100-150 m of trees were positively related to leaf-scale dry deposition. Rainfall amount and extreme wind-driven rain from the direction of major pollution sources were significant drivers of throughfall EC. Our findings indicate that complex configurations of roads, buildings, and vegetation produce urban edge trees that contribute to heterogeneous EC deposition patterns across urban systems, with implications for greenspace planning.

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