tailieunhanh - EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION FROM A NICKEL-COPPER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ON BOREAL FOREST VEGETATION IN THE JOINT RUSSIAN-NORWEGIAN-FINNISH BORDER AREA

The two maquiladoras in our sample were selected on the basis of two criteria: (i) each is reputed to be a leading industrial source of air pollution, and (ii) the detailed technical data needed to estimate their emissions are available. Some brief additional explanation may be helpful. We began the process of selecting maquiladoras for this study with a list of Paso del Norte’s leading industrial sources of air pollution, compiled from informal information provided by local stakeholders. We used . Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions factors to estimate emissions for these plants (. EPA 1995) | 2009 Helsinki 30 April 2009 BOREAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH 14 279-296 ISSN 1239-6095 print ISSN 1797-2469 online Effects of air pollution from a nickel-copper industrial complex on boreal forest vegetation in the joint Russian-Norwegian-Finnish border area Tor Myking1 Per A. Aarrestad2 John Derome3 Vegar Bakkestuen4 5 Jarle W. Bjerke6 Michael Gytarsky7 Ludmila Isaeva8 Rodion Karaban7 Vladimir Korotkov9 Martti Lindgren10 Antti-Jussi Lindroos10 Ingvald Rosberg11 Maija Salemaa10 Hans Tommervik6 and Natalia Vassilieva7 1 Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute Fanaflaten 4 N-5244 Fana Norway e-mail tor. myking@ 2 Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Tungasletta 2 N-7485 Trondheim Norway 3 Finnish Forest Research Institute Rovaniemi Research Unit . Box 16 FI-96301 Rovaniemi Finland 4 Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Gaustadalléen 21 N-0349 Oslo Norway 5 Department of Botany Natural History Museum University of Oslo . Box 1172 Blindern N-0318 Oslo Norway 6 Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Polar Environmental Centre N-9296 Tromso Norway 7 Institute of Global Climate and Ecology 107258 20-B Glebovskaya Str. Moscow Russia 8 Kola Science Center Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of the Industrial Ecology of the North INEP 184209 Fersmana st. 14a Apatity Murmansk region Russia 9 All-Russian Institute for Nature Protection 113628 Moscow Russia M-628 Znamenskoe-Sadki Moscow Russia 10 Finnish Forest Research Institute Vantaa Research Unit . Box 18 FI-01301 Vantaa Finland 11 Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute . Box 115 N-1431 Ảs Norway Received 16 Aug. 2007 accepted 2 Jan. 2008 Editor in charge of this article Jaana Back Myking T. Aarrestad P. A. Derome J. Bakkestuen V. Bjerke J. W. Gytarsky M. Isaeva L. Kara-ban R. Korotkov V. Lindgren M. Lindroos . Rosberg I. Salemaa M. Tommervik H. Vassil-ieva N. 2009 Effects of air pollution from a nickel-copper industrial complex on boreal forest vegetation in the joint .