Plant Growth and Climate Change grows daily of the changing climate and its impact on plants and animals.

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
• the interactions between these factors

Contents

1. Recent and Future Climate Change and Their Implications for Plant Growth

• The Climate System
• Mechanisms of Anthropogenic Climate Change
• Recent Climate Change
• Future Changes in Anthropogenic Forcing of Climate

2. Plant Responses to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

• Gene Expression and Carbon Dioxide
• Cellular Processes: Photosynthetic Carbon Oxidation and Carbon Dioxide
• Single Leaf Response to CO₂
• Whole Plant Responses to Rising CO₂
• Plant-to-Plant Interactions
• Plant Communities and Ecosystem Responses to CO₂
• Global and Evolutionary Scales

3. Significance of Temperature in Plant Life

• Two Paradoxes
• Baseline Responses of Plant Metabolism to Temperature
• 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

4. Temperature and Plant Development: Phenology and Seasonality

• The Origins of Phenology
• Recent Changes in Phenology
• Attribution of Temporal Changes
• Evidence for Continuous Phenological Measures
• Possible Consequences

5. Responses of Plant Growth and Functioning to Changes in Water Supply in a Changing Climate

• Growth of Plants in Drying Soil
• Water Relations of Plants in Drying Soil
• Water Relation Targets for Plant Improvement in Water Scarce Environments
• Control of Stomata, Water Use and Growth of Plants in Drying Soil: Hydraulic and Chemical Signalling

6. Water Availability and Productivity

• Water Deficits and Primary Productivity
• Variability in Water Resources and Plant Productivity
• Plant Communities Facing Drought
• Droughts and Wildfires
• Agricultural and Forestry Perspectives

7. Effects of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Plant Communities

• Methodology
• Mechanisms of Change in Plant Communities
• Is Community Change Already Happening?

8. Issues in Modelling Plant Ecosystem Responses to Elevated CO: Interactions With Soil Nitrogen

• Representing Nitrogen Cycling in Ecosystem Models
• How Uncertain Assumptions Affect Model Predictions
• Model-Data Fusion Techniques

9. 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
• Dependencies of Fluxes on CO₂ Light and Nitrogen Supply

Index

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