Plant growth and climate change

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Morecroft, Michael D. (Author), Morison, James I. L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Publishing , 2006
Series:Biological sciences series
Subjects:
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Recent and future climate change and their implications for plant growth
  • 2. Plant responses to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide
  • 3. Significance of temperature in plant life
  • 4. Temperature and plant development : phenology and seasonality
  • 5. Responses of plant growth and functioning to changes in water supply in a changing climate
  • 6. Water availability and productivity
  • 7. Effects of temperature and precipitation changes on plant communities
  • 8. Issues in modelling plant ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 : interactions with soil nitrogen
  • 9. Predicting the effect of climate change on global plant productivity and the carbon cycle