Response of Plants to Interacting Stresses (Ropis): Program Rationale, Design, and Implications

The Response of Plants of Interacting Stresses (ROPIS) program was designed to provide a mechanistic framework for analysis and prediction of the effects of air pollution (i.e., tropospheric ozone, acidic precipitationa and other environmental stresses on plants. Focusing on regionally important tree species, the program used experimental studies in the field and laboratory in combination with modeling efforts to evaluate how stresses affect material flow and transformation within the plant and material flow across the plant's boundaries with the soil and the atmosphere (...)