Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Climate Change — Implications for the Developing Countries....Pages 1-16
Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation....Pages 17-25
Air Pollution Impacts on Agriculture — A Global Issue?....Pages 27-39
Effects of Air Pollution on Herbivorous Insects....Pages 41-52
Floristic Summary of North American Plant Species in the Air Pollution Literature....Pages 53-61
The Impacts of Air Pollution on Crops in Developing Countries — A Case Study in Pakistan....Pages 63-71
Pollution vis-a-vis Biodiversity....Pages 73-88
Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Plant Responses....Pages 89-102
Implications of Variation in Carbon Sources for the Global Warming Potential of Methane....Pages 103-106
The Impact of Nitrogen Compounds — A Problem of Growing Concern....Pages 107-120
Nitrogen Oxides and Nitrogen Nutrition in Plants....Pages 121-134
Atmospheric H 2 S Pollution — Deposition and Impact on Sulphur Metabolism in Plants....Pages 135-141
Long-Term Effects of Metals on Helophytes in Lakes....Pages 143-152
Heavy Metal Emission from Thermal Power Plants and its Implication on Vegetative Environment — A Case Study....Pages 153-164
Studies on the Impact of Certain Oxidizing Pollutants and Growth Regulating Substances on Oryza sativa var. Tulasi....Pages 165-171
Cadmium Induced Adaptive Response in Plant Cells In vivo — A Possible Model Based on Genotoxicity Studies....Pages 173-184
Screening for Clastogenic Effects of Arsenicals on Plants In vivo ....Pages 185-193
Effect of Chromium (VI) on Growth and Physiolgy of Giant Duckweed Spirodela polyrrhiza (L.) Schleiden....Pages 195-205
Effects of Transpiration, Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on the Content of Cadmium and Zinc in Spring Wheat Grain....Pages 207-218
Growth Responses of Cassia sophera L. to Thermal Power Plant Emissions with Reference to Distance from the Source....Pages 219-240
Toxicity of Arsenic on Two Tropical Marine Phytoplankton....Pages 241-249
Aquatic Weeds as Indicators of Water Quality....Pages 251-257
A Comparative Survey of the Phytoplanktonic Flora in Three Lagoons in Southern Sri Lanka with Special Reference to their Usage as Biomonitors....Pages 259-268
Evaluation of Plants Growing Around a Cement Factory....Pages 269-283
Wild Plant Species in Bioindication of Polluted Environment....Pages 285-298
Calcutta Metropolis — Pollution and Plants....Pages 299-314
Copper and Zinc Content in the Food Commodities of Hyderabad....Pages 315-322
Methane Efflux from Wetland Rice Fields....Pages 323-333
The Use of Plants to Measure Global Distribution of Organochlorines....Pages 335-343
Effects of Toxicants (pollutants) on a Biological Species — Some Mathematical Models....Pages 345-356
Lead Mediated Synthesis of Metal Binding Peptides (Phytochelatins) in Aquatic Plant Vallisneria spiralis L.....Pages 357-364
Biosynthesis and Metal-Binding Characteristics of Phytochelatins....Pages 365-383
Studies on Potential Use of Cyanobacterium Westiellopsis for Bioremediation of Copper....Pages 385-390
Use of Water Hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes ) in Treatment Systems for Textile Factory Effluents....Pages 391-403
Environmental Degradation and ex-situ Conservation of Nelumbo nucifera ....Pages 405-410
Embryological Base of Plasticity and Adaptive Potentials of Reproductive Systems in Flowering Plants....Pages 411-422
Ecotechnological Approach in Green Belt Development....Pages 423-429
Greenbelts for Industrial Areas....Pages 431-443
Revegetation of a Coal Mine Overburden Dump....Pages 445-448
Reclamation of Flyash Landfill Areas Through Planting Nitrogen Fixing Tree Species....Pages 449-455
Back Matter....Pages 457-464