Plant Growth and Climate Change (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Morison, James I. L.; Morecroft, Michael D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Evidence grows daily of the changing climate and its impact on plants and animals. Plant function is inextricably linked to climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. On the shortest and smallest scales, the climate affects the plant's immediate environment and so directly influences physiological processes. At larger scales, the climate influences species distribution and community composition, as well as the viability of different crops in managed ecosystems. Plant growth also influences the local, regional and global climate, through the exchanges of energy and gases between the plants and the air around them.

Plant Growth and Climate Change examines the major aspects of how anthropogenic climate change affects plants, focusing on several key determinants of plant growth: atmospheric CO2, temperature, water availability and the interactions between these factors. The book demonstrates the variety of techniques used across plant science: detailed physiology in controlled environments; observational studies based on long-term data sets; field manipulation experiments and modelling. It is directed at advanced-level university students, researchers and professionals across the range of plant science disciplines, including plant physiology, plant ecology and crop science. It will also be of interest to earth system scientists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470994184
• Artikelnr.: 38202610

Autorenporträt

Dr James Morison, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK Dr Michael Morecroft, NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors. Preface. 1. Recent and future climate change and its implications for plant growth. David Viner
Climatic Research Unit
University of East Anglia
Norwich
UK
James I.L. Morison
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Essex
Colchester
UK and Craig Wallace
Climatic Research Unit
University of East Anglia
Norwich
UK. 2. Plant responses to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. Lewis H. Ziska and James A. Bunce
Crop Systems and Global Change
USDA-ARS
Beltsville
Maryland
USA. 3. The significance of temperature in plant life. Christian Körner
Institute of Botany
University of Basel
Basel
Switzerland. 4. Temperature and plant development: phenology and seasonality. Annette Menzel
Department of Ecology
Technical University of Munich
Germany and Tim Sparks
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Huntingdon
UK. 5. Responses of plant growth and functioning to changes in water supply in a changing climate. William J. Davies
Department of Biological Sciences
Lancaster Environment Centre
University of Lancaster
UK. 6. Water availability and productivity. João S. Pereira
Maria-Manuela Chaves
Maria-Conceição Caldeira and Alexandre V. Correia
m Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Lisboa
Portugal. 7. Effects of temperature and precipitation changes on plant communities. M. D. Morecroft
NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Wallingford
UK and J.S. Paterson
Environmental Change Institute
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Oxford
UK. 8. Issues in modelling plant ecosystem responses to elevated CO2: interactions with soil nitrogen. Ying-Ping Wang
CSIRO Atmospheric Research
Aspendale
Victoria
Australia and Ross McMurtrie
Belinda Medlyn and David Pepper
School of Biological Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales
Sydney
Australia. 9. Predicting the effect of climate change on global plant productivity and the carbon cycle. John Grace & Rui Zhang
Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science
School of GeoSciences
University of Edinburgh
UK. References. Index