Overview
- Ecosystem responses to climate change
- Plant responses as environment and climate proxies
- The use of plant responses in climate reconstructions
- Climate change, responses of plants from the Antarctic and arctic
- Scaling up from ecophysiology- ecosystems- landscape- biosphere
Part of the book series: Tasks for Vegetation Science (TAVS, volume 41)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global climate change: atmospheric CO2 enrichment, global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion
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Atmospheric CO2 enrichment
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Stratospheric ozone depletion
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Reconstruction of Past Climates using plant derived proxies
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Back Matter
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About this book
Plants and Climate Change focuses on how climate affects or affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and past. The chapters describe how ecosystems from the Antarctic and Arctic and from other latitudes respond to global climate change.
The papers highlight plant responses to atmospheric CO2 increase, to global warming and to increased ultraviolet-B radiation as a result of stratospheric ozone depletion.
Depending on how and how well plant responses to increased temperature, atmospheric CO2 and ultraviolet-B have been preserved in the (sub)-fossil record, past climates and past atmospheric chemistry may be reconstructed. Pollen and tree-ring data reflect plant species composition and variation of temperature and precipitation over long or shorter time intervals. In addition to well preserved morphological and chemical plant properties, new analytical techniques such as stable isotopes are becoming increasingly important in this respect. The development and validation of such biotic climate and environment proxies build a bridge between biological and geological research. This highlights that plant-climate change research is becoming a multi- and transdisciplinary field of relevant research.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The book ‘Plants and Climate Change’ is comprised of contributions to a symposium entitled ‘Plants and (Present and Past) Climate Change’, which originally was published in the journal ‘Plant Ecology’. … In the context of far northern ecosystems and wetlands, the book provides interesting and useful summaries that update and provide additional new perspectives required to better understand these systems. … an important extension and provide new insight on ecosystems intensively under study since the International Biological Programme, IBP." (J. Tenhunen and G.-R. Walther, Phytocoenologia, Vol. 38 (1-2), August, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plants and Climate Change
Editors: Jelte Rozema, Rien Aerts, Hans Cornelissen
Series Title: Tasks for Vegetation Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4443-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4442-7Published: 21 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7129-3Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4443-4Published: 19 January 2007
Series ISSN: 0167-9406
Series E-ISSN: 1875-130X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 264
Additional Information: Reprinted from Plant Ecology, 182, 1-2 2006
Topics: Plant Ecology, Atmospheric Sciences, Ecology, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Terrestial Ecology, Plant Sciences