Plant Responses to Air Pollution and Global Change

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Metabolism of atmospheric sulfur gases in onion....Pages 3-11
Impact of atmospheric NH 3 deposition on plant growth and functioning — a case study with Brassica oleracea L.....Pages 13-20
How sensitive are forest trees to ozone? - New research on an old issue....Pages 21-28
Northern conditions enhance the susceptibility of birch ( Betula pendula Roth) to oxidative stress caused by ozone....Pages 29-35
Physiological responses of trees to air pollutants at high elevation sites....Pages 37-44
Complex assessment of forest condition under air pollution impacts....Pages 45-51
Evaluation of the ozone-related risk for Austrian forests....Pages 53-61
Causes of differences in response of plant species to nitrogen supply and the ecological consequences....Pages 63-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Long-term effects of elevated CO 2 on sour orange trees....Pages 73-80
Plant responses to climate change: impacts and adaptation....Pages 81-88
Effects of elevated carbon dioxide concentration on wood structure and formation in trees....Pages 89-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Carbon dioxide and ozone affect needle nitrogen and abscission in Pinus ponderosa ....Pages 101-109
Effects of air pollution and climate change on forests of the Tatra Mountains, Central Europe....Pages 111-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
MAPK signalling and plant cell survival in response to oxidative environmental stress....Pages 125-132
Expression of cyanobacterial ictB in higher plants enhanced photosynthesis and growth....Pages 133-139
Improvement of photosynthesis in higher plants....Pages 141-147
Modification of CO 2 fixation of photosynthetic prokaryote....Pages 149-156
Specificity of diatom Rubisco....Pages 157-164
Regulation of CO 2 fixation in non-sulfur purple photosynthetic bacteria....Pages 165-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Experimental ecosystem and climate change research in controlled environments: lessons from the Biosphere 2 Laboratory 1996–2003....Pages 173-184
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Importance of air movement for promoting gas and heat exchanges between plants and atmosphere under controlled environments....Pages 185-193
Pros and cons of CO 2 springs as experimental sites....Pages 195-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Carbon dynamics in response to climate and disturbance: Recent progress from multi-scale measurements and modeling in AmeriFlux....Pages 205-213
Synthetic analysis of the CO 2 fluxes at various forests in East Asia....Pages 215-225
3-D remote sensing of woody canopy height and carbon stocks by helicopter-borne scanning lidar....Pages 227-234
Assessments of climate change impacts on the terrestrial ecosystem in Japan using the Bio-Geographical and GeoChemical (BGGC) Model....Pages 235-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Establishing critical levels of air pollutants for protecting East Asian vegetation — A challenge....Pages 243-250
Major activities of acid deposition monitoring network in East Asia (EANET) and related studies....Pages 251-259
Land degradation and blown-sand disaster in China....Pages 261-269
Impact of meteorological fields and surface conditions on Asian dust....Pages 271-276
A case study on combating desertification at a small watershed in the hills-gully area of loess plateau, China....Pages 277-284
A recipe for sustainable agriculture in drylands....Pages 285-293