Pflanzliche Bioindikatoren liefern Grundlagendaten für verschiedene Umweltaktionsbereiche
- Publication Type
- Contribution to conference
- Authors
- Franzaring, J., Fangmeier, A., Klumpp, A.
- Year of publication
- 2005
- Published in
- Umweltindikatoren - Mythos oder Wirklichkeit?
- Editor
- Böcker, R., Hutter, C.-P.
- Pubisher
- Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft , Stuttgart
- Band/Volume
- 39/
- Series/labeling
- Beiträge der Akademie für Natur- und Umweltschutz Baden-Württemberg
- ISBN / ISSN / eISSN
- 3-8047-2231-8
- Page (from - to)
- 34-44
- Conference name
- 35. Hohenheimer Umwelttagung
- Conference location
- Hohenheim
- Conference date
- 30.01.2004
- Keywords
- Bioindikation, Luftschadstoff, Umweltwirkungen
After a short critical analysis of the use of environmental indicators, recent examples for plant bioindicator studies are presented in this paper. While in Germany bioindication is currently not much used, other countries apply these seemingly “outdated” methods on a much wider scale. An example is the use of Ellenberg indicator values in the UK and in the UN-ECE region, which underlines the suitability of bioindicators to address mid-term adverse effects of environmental pollution, e.g. problems associated with N-deposition, eutrophication as well as global change. Further examples relate to the reaction and accumulation bioindicator methods used throughout Europe within the UN-ECE ICP Forests and ICP Vegetation programmes. On the EU level, the LIFE programme encourages the use and development of bioindicators for the environmental assessment. A recent example for this is the Hohenheim co-ordinated EuroBionet project, which was performed in twelve cities in eight EU countries, in which standardised methods and materials were applied for the first time. The paper concludes that plant bioindicators may provide basic data for the evaluation of environmental, consumer protection and nature conservation policies. Technological and knowledge transfer of such methods should be primarily directed at MOE and SE Asian countries, which must not rely on economic headline indicators alone. At the same time European bioindication standards should be fixed to have a sound basis for practice and procedure.