Screen LibraryPlant growth and climate change
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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Biological sciences series (Oxford, England)
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470988695 |
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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 th |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780470988695 047098869X 9780470994184 0470994185 |
| Index Number: | S600 |
| CLC: | B84-4 |
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List of contributors -- Preface -- Recent and future climate change and their implications for plant growth / Introduction -- The climate system -- Mechanisms of anthropogenic climate change -- Recent climate changes -- Future changes in anthropogenic forcing of climate -- Future global climate scenarios -- Future regional climate scenarios -- Concluding comments -- References -- Plant responses to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide / Overview of plant biology Significance of temperature in plant life / Two paradoxes -- paradox 1 -- Paradox 2 -- Baseline responses of plant metabolism to temperature -- Photosynthesis -- Dark respiration -- Thermal acclimation of metabolism -- Growth response to temperature -- Temperature extremes and temperature thresholds -- The temperatures experienced by plants -- Temperature and plant development -- The challenge of testing plant responses to temperature -- Temperature and plant development : phenology and seasonality / Measuring the water availability in the soil : long-distance chemical signalling -- The integrated response to the environment -- Conclusions : a strategy for plant improvement and management to exploit the plant's drought response capacity -- Water availability and productivity / Water deficits and primary productivity -- Net primary productivity -- Water-use efficiency -- Variability in water resources and plant productivity -- Temporal variabil Effects of temperature and precipitation changes on plant communities / Methodology -- Mechanisms of change in plant communities -- Direct effects of climate -- Interspecific differences in growth responses to climate -- Competition and facilitation -- Changing water availability and interactions between climate variables -- Interactions between climate and nutrient cycling -- Role of extreme events -- Dispersal constraints -- Interactions with animals -- Is community change already happening? -- Acknowledgements -- Ref Predicting the effect of climate change on global plant productivity and the carbon cycle / Definitions and conceptual framework -- Empirical basis of our knowledge of carbon fluxes -- NPP -- NEP and NEE -- GPP and NPP by remote sensing -- Use of models to predict changes in plant growth and carbon fluxes at the large scale -- Dependencies of fluxes on CO₂ light and nitrogen supply -- Autotrophic respiration -- Heterotrophic respiration -- Ecosystem models -- Conclusions -- |