Mass concentration measurements of autumn bioaerosol using low-cost sensors in a mature temperate woodland free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) experiment: investigating the role of meteorology and carbon dioxide levels

• Published in: Biogeosciences Vol. 19; no. 10; pp. 2653 - 2669
• Main Authors: Baird, Aileen B, Bannister, Edward J, MacKenzie, A. Robert, Pope, Francis D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 30.05.2022; Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Aerosol concentrations; Aerosols; Air pollution; Airborne microorganisms; Allergenicity; Animal diseases; Arrays; Atmospheric diffusion; Atmospheric dispersion; Atmospheric models; Autumn; Bioaerosols; Biosphere; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Cloud formation; Clouds; Detritus; Dispersion; Ecological effects; Ecology; Experiments; Forestry research; Forests; Fungi; Global temperature changes; Human diseases; Hygroscopicity; Livestock; Low cost; Measurement; Meteorology; Particle counters; Particulate emissions; Particulate matter; Phenology; Plant cover; Pollen; Pollution dispersion; Radiation counters; Relative humidity; Rural areas; Seasons; Sensors; Soil particles; Spatial variations; Spores; Suspended particulate matter; Trees; Viruses; Weather; Wind; Wind speed; Woodlands; United Kingdom > UK
• ISSN: 1726-4189; 1726-4170; 1726-4189
• DOI: 10.5194/bg-19-2653-2022

Forest environments contain a wide variety of airborne biological particles (bioaerosols), including pollen, fungal spores, bacteria, viruses, plant detritus, and soil particles. Forest bioaerosol plays a number of important roles related to plant and livestock health, human disease and allergenicity, and forest and wider ecology and are thought to influence biosphere-atmosphere interactions via warm and cold cloud formation. Despite the importance of bioaerosols, there are few measurements of forest aerosol, and there is a lack of understanding of how climate change will affect forest bioaerosol in the future.