Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Environmental Stress

   1. Climate Change — Implications for the Developing Countries

      • S. K. Sinha

      Pages 1-16

   2. Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation

      • T. W. Ashenden, C. M. Stirling, H. Harmens, C. R. Rafarel

      Pages 17-25

   3. Air Pollution Impacts on Agriculture — A Global Issue?

      • M. R. Ashmore, J. N. B. Bell, F. M. Marshall, E. Milne

      Pages 27-39

   4. Effects of Air Pollution on Herbivorous Insects

      • J. N. B. Bell

      Pages 41-52

   5. Floristic Summary of North American Plant Species in the Air Pollution Literature

      • J. P. Bennett

      Pages 53-61

   6. The Impacts of Air Pollution on Crops in Developing Countries — A Case Study in Pakistan

      • S. R. A. Shamsi, M. R. Ashmore, J. N. B. Bell, R. Maggs, U. Kafayat, A. Wahid

      Pages 63-71

   7. Pollution vis-a-vis Biodiversity

      • P. B. Rastogi, N. Rastogi

      Pages 73-88

   8. Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Plant Responses

      • M. Agrawal, S. S. Deepak

      Pages 89-102

   9. Implications of Variation in Carbon Sources for the Global Warming Potential of Methane

      • C. K. Varshney, A. K. Attri

      Pages 103-106

   10. The Impact of Nitrogen Compounds — A Problem of Growing Concern

       • B. Prinz

       Pages 107-120

   11. Nitrogen Oxides and Nitrogen Nutrition in Plants

       • H. S. Srivastava

       Pages 121-134

   12. Atmospheric H2S Pollution — Deposition and Impact on Sulphur Metabolism in Plants

       • L. J. De Kok, C. E. E. Stuiver, S. Westerman, I. Stulen

       Pages 135-141

   13. Long-Term Effects of Metals on Helophytes in Lakes

       • G. Blake

       Pages 143-152

   14. Heavy Metal Emission from Thermal Power Plants and its Implication on Vegetative Environment — A Case Study

       • D. K. Soni, S. P. Chakrabarti, A. L. Aggarwal

       Pages 153-164

   15. Studies on the Impact of Certain Oxidizing Pollutants and Growth Regulating Substances on Oryza sativa var. Tulasi

       • S. H. Raza, K. Gouri

       Pages 165-171

3. Stress Indication

   1. Cadmium Induced Adaptive Response in Plant Cells In vivo — A Possible Model Based on Genotoxicity Studies

      • B. B. Panda, J. Patra, K. K. Panda

      Pages 173-184

   2. Screening for Clastogenic Effects of Arsenicals on Plants In vivo

      • B. Bandyopadhyay, A. Sharma

      Pages 185-193

   3. Effect of Chromium (VI) on Growth and Physiolgy of Giant Duckweed Spirodela polyrrhiza (L.) Schleiden

      • R. D. Tripathi, S. Smith

      Pages 195-205

   4. Effects of Transpiration, Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on the Content of Cadmium and Zinc in Spring Wheat Grain

      • H. Pleijel, H. Danielsson, J. Gelang, G. Selldén

      Pages 207-218

In the present scenario, stresses induced due to global environmental change have indeed become a focal point of researches and study programmes worldwide. Stress caused to plant life has an important consequence to both, vegetation as such and all other global cycles which sustain this `living earth'.
Unlike other already existing works this volume elucidates the plant-pollutant relationship in a manner that defines not only the drastic effects of pollutants on plants but concomitantly highlights the hitherto less focused areas namely phytoindication, phytoremediation and stress tolerant bioaesthetic development, thus concentrating more on plant than pollutant. The book would help understand the magnitude of environmental stress in the coming years and may play a formative role in defining future research and policy areas along with providing impetus to development of newer eco-technologies.
The book shall interest both students and researchers of environmental sciences, ecology, forestry and related disciplines as well as persons and organisations engaged in environmental management and eco-conservation.

• Air pollution
• Ecology
• Flora
• Global warming
• Plankton
• biodiversity
• climate change
• emissions
• environment
• environmental change
• environmental management
• phytoplankton
• pollution
• toxicity
• wetland
• air pollution and air quality

• Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India

  Mohammad Yunus

• National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India

  Nandita Singh

• University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

  Luit J. Kok

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