TY - T1 - The impact of urban trees on concentrations of PAHs and other gaseous air pollutants in Yanji, northeast China SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/318769 T3 - A1 - Yli-Pelkonen, Vesa; Viippola, Viljami; Rantalainen, Anna-Lea; Zheng, JunQiang; Setälä, Heikki A2 - PB - Y1 - 2018 LA - eng AB - It is generally conceived that trees can clean polluted air in urban areas sufficiently enough to be considered providers of a vital ecosystem service, although there have not been many field studies showing this in practice in the neighbourhood scale. Using passive sampling methods, we investigated the effect of urban park trees on the concentrations of gaseous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ground-level ozone (O3) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in early summer in th... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 1172 Environmental sciences; Urban trees; Urban vegetation; Air Pollutants; PAHs; Nitrogen dioxide; Ozone; sulphur dioxide; China; Yanji; Ecosystem services; Urban parks; Urban ecosystems N1 - PP - ER -