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Harry Harmens is affiliated with Bangor University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to plant and atmospheric interactions. Key research themes include:

  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Harry Harmens has published in a variety of scientific journals and venues, frequently appearing in Environmental Science and Pollution Research and The Science of The Total Environment. Other publication venues include Science Advances, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, and Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Ozone affects plant, insect, and soil microbial communities: A threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Melatonin enhances drought resistance by regulating leaf stomatal behaviour, root growth and catalase activity in two contrasting rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) genotypes" (2020), published in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
  • "Effects of ozone, drought and heat stress on wheat yield and grain quality" (2023), published in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • "Ozone-induced effects on leaves in African crop species" (2020), published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Reduced photosynthetic thermal acclimation capacity under elevated ozone in poplar (Populus tremula) saplings" (2021), published in Global Change Biology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Felicity Hayes, Katrina Sharps, Gina Mills, Sheila Izquieta-Rojano, and Yasser Morera-Gómez.

Best Publications

  • Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Present-day tropospheric ozone distribution and trends relevant to vegetation

    Gina Mills;Håkan Pleijel;Christopher S. Malley;Baerbel Sinha

  • Mosses as biomonitors of atmospheric heavy metal deposition: spatial patterns and temporal trends in Europe.

    H. Harmens;D.A. Norris;E. Steinnes;E. Kubin

  • Evidence of widespread effects of ozone on crops and (semi-)natural vegetation in Europe (1990–2006) in relation to AOT40- and flux-based risk maps

    Gina Mills;Felicity Hayes;David Simpson;David Simpson;Lisa Emberson

  • Ozone affects plant, insect, and soil microbial communities: A threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity

    Evgenios Agathokleous;Zhaozhong Feng;Elina Oksanen;Pierre Sicard

  • Working group report

    J. Strengbom;H.V. Andersen;K. Aazem;E.B. Adema

  • New stomatal flux-based critical levels for ozone effects on vegetation

    Gina E. Mills;Hakan Pleijel;Sabine Braun;Patrick Buker

  • Ozone pollution will compromise efforts to increase global wheat production.

    Gina Mills;Katrina Sharps;David Simpson;David Simpson;Håkan Pleijel

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Heavy metal and nitrogen concentrations in mosses are declining across Europe whilst some "hotspots" remain in 2010.

    H. Harmens;D.A. Norris;K. Sharps;G. Mills

  • Terrestrial mosses as biomonitors of atmospheric POPs pollution: a review.

    Harry Harmens;Louise Foan;Louise Foan;Valérie Simon;Valérie Simon;Gina Mills

  • Interactions between elevated CO2 and warming could amplify DOC exports from peatland catchments.

    Nathalie Fenner;Christopher Freeman;Maurice A. Lock;Harry Harmens

  • Temporal trends (1990-2000) in the concentration of cadmium, lead and mercury in mosses across Europe.

    Harry Harmens;David A. Norris;Georgia R. Koerber;Alan Buse

  • Nitrogen concentrations in mosses indicate the spatial distribution of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in Europe.

    H. Harmens;D.A. Norris;D.M. Cooper;G. Mills

  • Melatonin enhances drought resistance by regulating leaf stomatal behaviour, root growth and catalase activity in two contrasting rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) genotypes.

    Lulu Dai;Jun Li;Harry Harmens;Xiaodong Zheng

  • Temporal trends in the concentration of arsenic, chromium, copper, iron, nickel, vanadium and zinc in mosses across Europe between 1990 and 2000

    Harry Harmens;David A. Norris;Georgia R. Koerber;Alan Buse

  • Heavy Metal Concentrations in European Mosses: 2000/2001 Survey

    Harry Harmens;Alan Buse;Patrick Büker;David Norris

  • Heavy metals in European mosses: 2000/2001 survey

    Alan Buse;David Norris;Harry Harmens;Patrick Büker

  • Current and future ozone risks to global terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem processes

    Jürg Fuhrer;Maria Val Martin;Gina Mills;Colette L. Heald

  • Elevated CO2 Effects on Peatland Plant Community Carbon Dynamics and DOC Production

    Nathalie Fenner;Nicholas J. Ostle;Niall McNamara;Timothy Sparks

  • Ozone impacts on vegetation in a nitrogen enriched and changing climate

    Gina Mills;Harry Harmens;Serena Wagg;Katrina Sharps

  • Air Pollution and Vegetation

    Harry Harmens;Gina Mills;Felicity Hayes;David Norris

Frequent Co-Authors

Gina Mills
Gina Mills University of Gothenburg
Harald G. Zechmeister
Harald G. Zechmeister University of Vienna
Marina Frontasyeva
Marina Frontasyeva Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Eiliv Steinnes
Eiliv Steinnes Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Hilde Fagerli
Hilde Fagerli Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Trajče Stafilov
Trajče Stafilov Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
Lisa Emberson
Lisa Emberson University of York
Mike Ashmore
Mike Ashmore University of York
Zhaozhong Feng
Zhaozhong Feng Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Elena Paoletti
Elena Paoletti National Research Council (CNR)

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