The Effects of SO2 on a Grassland: A Case Study in the Northern Great Plains of the United States

When Springer-Verlag undertook publication of this volume, two opportunities arose. The first was to bring together the significant findings of the interacting parts of a large field experiment on a whole ecosystem. Scientific specialists and the public are rightly concerned with large-scale impacts of human activity on landscapes and with the challenge of predicting subtle, long-range repercussions of air pollution. A fundamental issue is whether ecological systems like grasslands, which h...