The invention relates to a measuring method for the
dust fall quantity of a
plant canopy leaf surface. The measuring method comprises the following steps: (1) selecting a well-grown
plant, and picking 15-20 leaves from the upper, middle and lower parts of a
plant canopy; (2) placing the healthy leaves picked from each plant in numbered envelopes, taking the envelopes to a lab, shearing the petioles of the leaves, and
drying the leaves without the petioles in a
drying box under the temperature being 105 DEG C; (3) weighing the leaves in the step (2) to obtain W1; (4) soaking the leaves after the weighing in the step (3) in
distilled water for 20-30 minutes, so as to enable falling dust on the front surface of the leaves to be cleaned, after washing of the leaves by the
distilled water,
drying the washed leaves till the weight is constant, and weighing for the second time to obtain W2; (5)
wetting the leaves in the step (4), and measuring the total leaf area S of each plant by a leaf area
measuring instrument, wherein a computational formula of the
dust fall quantity is as follows: FDC (g.m<-2>)=(W1-W2) / S*10000. The method is simple, easy to operate, and can be used for providing new indexes for
air quality monitoring; by using the method, the breakthrough and the progress of research on influence of leaf
surface dust fall on the plant can be realized.