Project Aims
- Air pollution: Physico-chemical measurements and monitoring
- Biological Monitoring
Lichen surveys will be carried out in both cities. The position of each tree or plot and the associated flora will be recorded using a global positioning system and the information will be transferred to a GIS database. The species recorded and community structure will be compared.
The main aim of the survey is to establish a baseline, using the same methodology in both cities, so that we can compare changes over the coming decades. The project will also look at historical survey data to determine how diversity has changed since records began (over two hundred years in London and more than a century in Moscow) as well as monitoring future changes.
Information about the species and monitoring protocols will be available on this site. Common species will be photographed and a simple identification key will shortly be available. All the survey records will be embedded into the GIS system to investigate the relationship between pollution and lichen community state.
This part of the project will be led by Dr. Gregory Insarov of the Institute of Climate Change and Ecology in Moscow, working with Dr. Eugenia Moutchnick at the Institute of Forest Research, Moscow and in the UK by Dr. Linda Davies of Imperial College London working with Dr. William Purvis and Dr. Gill Stevens at the Natural History Museum. - Air pollution modelling
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