Ozone and plants: need for a biologically based air quality standard

For the past 10 years, I have spent parts of late July and early August in central Europe, assessing ozone injury symptom expression on native plants in upland meadows and along forest edges. Much of this work has been done with local colleagues in and near the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland and eastern Slovakia and in the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine. Active and passive ozone air monitors and samplers were also used at most of the study sites.