Quantification of BVOC emissions

Aim and methodology

The aim of task 2 is to quantify BVOC emissions on representative remnants of the Atlantic forest and to evaluate their main drivers and their response to ozone and heat stress. Task 2 will deliver the emissions data that will be incorporated in the modelling in Task 4. The following questions will be addressed:

What are the main sources of BVOC emissions at RMG and Matão-USP sites and their main drivers?

What are the emission factors and how are they effected by ozone and heat stress?

The floristic characterization of vegetation will estimate species abundance and biomass distributions in order to select the dominant ones. BVOC emission will be measured by dynamic headspace technique coupled to offline (GC-MS) and online methods (PTR-TofMS, GC-FID) during SOP1 laboratory experiments to determine the controlling factors and stress effects on emissions along with measurements of physiological and morphological traits.


 

Coordinators : Dr Silvia Ribeiro & Michael Staudt

Silvia
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Silvia Ribeiro de Souza, Scientist at Environmental Research Institute of São Paulo
Sustainable use of natural resources center
São Paulo, Brazil
sribeiro@sp.gov.br

Silvia´s research focuses on plant volatiles and has been studying biogenic volaitles as responses to anthropogenic effects on vegetation, particularly in an urban forest in São Paulo. With a post-doctoral degree in Chemical Ecology in polluted environments from the University of Eastern Finland, she has been actively involved in measuring biogenic volatiles in the field and simulated atmospheric environments.

 

Michael STAUDT, Scientist @CNRS
Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
Montpellier, France
michael.staudt@cefe.cnrs.fr

Michael is a plant ecophysiologist. Most of his research is devoted to better understanding the endogenous and exogenous factors driving VOC emissions from plants.As part of BIOMASP+, Michael is helping to coordinate Task 2. The CEFE team will be involved in determining VOC emissions at the plant and canopy level and continuous VOC monitoring using online gas chromatography



 

Michael
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