[PDF] Climate Limits And Climate Change Impacts On Plant Distribution eBook

Author : Guoqing Li
Publisher : Eliva Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2022-11-02
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ISBN : 9789994983605

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This book systematically explores climate limits and climate change impacts on plant distribution, especially in China. It involves not only the establishment work flow of related methods such as climatically suitable habitat mapping, limiting climatic factor mapping, climatic niche dynamics assessment, multi-components vulnerability assessment, range shift velocity estimation in three geographical dimensions, but also discusses how climate controls the geographical distribution of plants in China? How specie climatic niche dynamics during afforestation around the world? How does climate change affect the multi-components vulnerability of plants? How does climate change affect the local species extinction risk, species turnover rate and species gain rate and species loss rate of plants in China? How climate change affects species range shift velocity (direction and speed) in China? It also mapped physical based climate change velocity in China for 13 climatic variables, and compared the difference between species velocity and temperature velocity. Besides, the book explores the climate and other factors impact on distribution pattern of seed plant richness in China at province scale, as well as climate change driven range shift of vegetation zone and climatic niche shift of vegetation greenness at regional scale. Various simulation studies will deepen our understanding of the biological and ecological processes on plants limit boundary and range shift. The book should sever as an beneficial book for all those who are interested in plant distribution, climate change ecology, biogeography, climate change adaptation forest management, vegetation restoration and conservation.

Author : Jelte Rozema
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2007-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402044437

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This book focuses on how climate affects or affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and in the 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.

Author : F. I. Woodward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 1987-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521282147

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Correlation between plant distribution and climate is examined over different time and space scales to determine the mechanisms of control in physiological and biochemical terms.

Author : Therese M. Poland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030453677

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This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade. This multi-disciplinary book, written by over 100 national experts, presents the latest research on a wide range of natural science and social science fields that explore the ecology, impacts, and practical tools for management of invasive species. It covers species of all taxonomic groups from insects and pathogens, to plants, vertebrates, and aquatic organisms that impact a diversity of habitats in forests, rangelands and grasslands of the United States. It is well-illustrated, provides summaries of the most important invasive species and issues impacting all regions of the country, and includes a comprehensive primary reference list for each topic. This scientific synthesis provides the cultural, economic, scientific and social context for addressing environmental challenges posed by invasive species and will be a valuable resource for scholars, policy makers, natural resource managers and practitioners.

Author : Kevin R. Ford
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2014
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Ongoing anthropogenic climate change has profound implications for species, communities and ecosystems around the world. Yet climate is only one of many important drivers in ecological systems, with topography, soils, disturbance, ontogeny, biotic interactions, land-use and many other factors also playing key roles. To produce useful predictions of climate change impacts that can inform conservation actions, we must first develop an understanding of how climate interacts with other components of the environment to influence ecological dynamics. In this dissertation, I have attempted to identify important interactions of climatic and non-climatic factors that have the potential to surprisingly alter the ways climate change influences the distribution and performance of plant species at Mount Rainier National Park. In Chapter 1, I begin by reviewing some of the important ways climate change is likely to impact Mount Rainier, finding that while the Park's resources will likely be imperiled, Mount Rainier will also become increasingly important for preserving the region's biodiversity because of its relative lack of other pressures (e.g., habitat destruction) and high elevation lands that can serve as refugia for cold-adapted species. Chapter 2 describes observed patterns in climate (temperature and snow disappearance date) at coarse and fine spatial scales, showing that climate can vary as much at fine scales (tens of meters) due to differences in vegetation structure and topography as it does at coarse scales (thousands of meters) due to differences in elevation and exposure to storm tracks. These results imply that some species may only have to migrate small distances to track suitable climate during periods of climate change, which may buffer them from its negative impacts. Chapter 3 presents results from a study in Mount Rainier's subalpine and alpine meadows which found that the interaction of climate and soil constraints on seedling establishment during climate change may cause the range of the meadows to contract at their lower limit faster than they expand at their upper limit, a result that would not be expected from considering climate alone. Chapter 4 includes analyses of tree growth across elevation at Mount Rainier which suggest that the relationship between climate and growth changes with tree size in a species-specific manner, implying that forest responses to climate change will be complex. I end with a synthesis summarizing major findings and suggesting avenues for future research.

Author : Tariq Aftab
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0323885888

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Plant Perspectives to Global Climate Changes: Developing Climate-Resilient Plants reviews and integrates currently available information on the impact of the environment on functional and adaptive features of plants from the molecular, biochemical and physiological perspectives to the whole plant level. The book also provides a direction towards implementation of programs and practices that will enable sustainable production of crops resilient to climatic alterations. This book will be beneficial to academics and researchers working on stress physiology, stress proteins, genomics, proteomics, genetic engineering, and other fields of plant physiology. Advancing ecophysiological understanding and approaches to enhance plant responses to new environmental conditions is critical to developing meaningful high-throughput phenotyping tools and maintaining humankind’s supply of goods and services as global climate change intensifies. Illustrates the central role for plant ecophysiology in applying basic research to address current and future challenges for humans Brings together global leaders working in the area of plant-environment interactions and shares research findings Presents current scenarios and future plans of action for the management of stresses through various approaches

Author : R. M. M. Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139469290

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Margins are by their very nature environmentally unstable - does it therefore follow that plant populations adapted for life in such areas will prove to be pre-adapted to withstand the changes that may be brought about by a warmer world? Biogeography, demography, reproductive biology, physiology and genetics all provide cogent explanations as to why limits occur where they do, and the purpose of this book is to bring together these different avenues of enquiry. Crawford's numerous beautiful illustrations of plants in their natural habitats remind us that the environment remains essential to our understanding of plants and their function. This book is suited to students, researchers and anyone with an interest in the impact of climate change on our world.

Author : Douglas John Levey
Publisher : CABI
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 085199525X

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This book provides information on the historical and theoretical perspectives of biodiversity and ecology in tropical forests, plant and animal behaviour towards seed dispersal and plant-animal interactions within forest communities, consequences of seed dispersal, and conservation, biodiversity and management.

Author : James I. L. Morison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0470994185

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Evidence grows daily of the changing climate and its impact on plants and animals. Plant function is inextricably linked to climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. On the shortest and smallest scales, the climate affects the plant’s immediate environment and so directly influences physiological processes. At larger scales, the climate influences species distribution and community composition, as well as the viability of different crops in managed ecosystems. Plant growth also influences the local, regional and global climate, through the exchanges of energy and gases between the plants and the air around them. 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 and the interactions between these factors. The book demonstrates the variety of techniques used across plant science: detailed physiology in controlled environments; observational studies based on long-term data sets; field manipulation experiments and modelling. It is directed at advanced-level university students, researchers and professionals across the range of plant science disciplines, including plant physiology, plant ecology and crop science. It will also be of interest to earth system scientists.

Author : Thomas E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 0300206119

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An essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to action The physical and biological impacts of climate change are dramatic and broad-ranging. People who care about the planet and manage natural resources urgently need a synthesis of our rapidly growing understanding of these issues. In this all-new sequel to the 2005 volume Climate Change and Biodiversity, leading experts in the field summarize observed changes, assess what the future holds, and offer suggested responses. From extinction risk to ocean acidification, from the future of the Amazon to changes in ecosystem services, and from geoengineering to the power of ecosystem restoration, this book captures the sweep of climate change transformation of the biosphere.