Plants and Climate Change

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rozema, Jelte. (Editor), Aerts, Rien. (Editor), Cornelissen, Hans. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:Tasks for Vegetation Science, 41
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4443-4
Table of Contents:
  • Global climate change: atmospheric CO2 enrichment, global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion
  • Responses of terrestrial Antarctic ecosystems to climate change
  • Atmospheric CO2 enrichment
  • Vascular plant responses to elevated CO2 in a temperate lowland Sphagnum peatland
  • Moss responses to elevated CO2 and variation in hydrology in a temperate lowland peatland
  • From transient to steady-state response of ecosystems to atmospheric CO2-enrichment and global climate change: conceptual challenges and need for an integrated approach
  • Plant performance in a warmer world: general responses of plants from cold, northern biomes and the importance of winter and spring events
  • Global warming
  • Stable isotope ratios as a tool for assessing changes in carbon and nutrient sources in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems
  • Upscaling regional emissions of greenhouse gases from rice cultivation: methods and sources of uncertainty
  • Stratospheric ozone depletion
  • Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on nitrogen fixation in arctic ecosystems
  • Stratospheric ozone depletion: high arctic tundra plant growth on Svalbard is not affected by enhanced UV-B after 7 years of UV-B supplementation in the field
  • Outdoor studies on the effects of solar UV-B on bryophytes: overview and methodology
  • Reconstruction of Past Climates using plant derived proxies
  • A vegetation, climate and environment reconstruction based on palynological analyses of high arctic tundra peat cores (5000-6000 years BP) from Svalbard
  • Physiognomic and chemical characters in wood as palaeoclimate proxies
  • The occurrence of p-coumaric acid and ferulic acid in fossil plant materials and their use as UV-proxy
  • Biomacromolecules of algae and plants and their fossil analogues.