Chlorine Gas Exposure & Trees
University Outreach Publication
Chlorine is a useful element and a dangerous element. Chlorine is an essential element in trees. It is found in thousands of natural and manmade compounds and materials. Chlorine is essential for both human thought and activating pesticides. Living things use chlorine and generate thousands of different organic compounds. Animal immune systems incorporate chlorine into natural materials to fight infections. Chlorinecontaining organic materials are released every day from decaying plant materials. Organo-chlorines are also generated when plant materials are burned. Earth’s volcanoes emit chlorine materials. Some rocks and minerals contain chlorine. We are surrounded by a chlorine recycling ecology essential to our lives.
Sometimes chlorine in the environment reaches a dosage or exposure level where it can impact trees and other landscape plants. This publication reviews chlorine gas impacts on trees and their supporting landscapes. This is not a toxicology or environmental dosage review, but is designed to help tree health care professionals understand the potential injuries sustained by trees and other landscape plants when exposed to chlorine gas.
(SFR04-5) June 2004
Kim D. Coder
2004
University of Georgia School of Forest Resources
Athens, GA
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Abiotic Factors, Air Quality/Pollution, Forest Health, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Landscape Ecology, Nutrients, Photosynthesis, Plant Health Care, Stress & Stressors, Diagnosis and Treatment, Health (tree)
International
Leaf characteristics, Chlorine damage
