Ozone Exposure Effects on Four African Crops in UK Solardomes, 2018

Four African crops—Beans, Cowpeas, Amaranth, and Sorghum—were exposed to three ozone levels and two heat treatments in a UK solardome experiment from May to September 2018. The dataset comprises manually collected plant physiology, biomass, and yield data alongside automatically logged ozone concentration and meteorological variables.

Use Cases

• Analyze the impact of ozone concentration levels on stomatal conductance measurements across the four crop types.
• Model crop yield and total biomass outcomes for beans and cowpeas as a function of ozone exposure and heat treatments.
• Correlate meteorological variables like relative humidity and leaf temperature with plant physiology data to assess environmental stress.
• Investigate chlorophyll content and soil moisture measurements in relation to ozone-induced changes in plant health.

Strengths

• Data covers four distinct crop types under controlled ozone and heat treatments.
• Includes both manually collected physiology data and automatically logged environmental data for cross-analysis.
• Experiment conducted over a defined 5-month period in 2018 within specialized solardome facilities.

Limitations

• Yield data is incomplete; sorghum did not reach yield, and amaranth only has seed head weight recorded.
• Some missing photosynthetically active radiation readings due to faulty sensor data.
• Chlorophyll content and soil moisture measurements were not consistently taken for all plants.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Manual collection of plant physiology, biomass, and yield data combined with automated logging of ozone and meteorological variables in solardomes.

Time Range

May 2018 to September 2018

Freshness

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Geography

UK CEH Bangor solardomes