Abstract
A system is described for exposing large numbers of plants to acidic fogs. The system allows low volumes of treatment solutions to be provided at particle sizes chiefly in the 5–30 μm range (equivalent to fog/cloud droplets). Plants of Poa alpina L. and Epilobium brunnescens were propagated from material collected in Snowdonia, North Wales and exposed to fog treatments at pH values of 2·5, 3·5, 4·5 and 5·6. There were 3 × 4 h exposures per week which provided a total of 6 mm deposition. Supplementary watering was with pH 4·5 simulated acid rain (24 mm per week). After 21 weeks, there was increased lowering and a greater dry weight for plants of E. brunnescens exposed to the pH 2·5 fog in comparison with other treatments. Also, the plants used assimilated material to form shoots rather than roots. A similar increase in dry weight accumulation in the pH 2·5 treatment was found in P. alpina after 63 weeks but this was not associated with changes in assimilate partitioning.
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