Plants and Climate Change

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Responses of terrestrial Antarctic ecosystems to climate change....Pages 1-12
Vascular plant responses to elevated CO 2 in a temperate lowland Sphagnum peatland....Pages 13-26
Moss responses to elevated CO 2 and variation in hydrology in a temperate lowland peatland....Pages 27-42
From transient to steady-state response of ecosystems to atmospheric CO 2 -enrichment and global climate change: conceptual challenges and need for an integrated approach....Pages 43-64
Plant performance in a warmer world: general responses of plants from cold, northern biomes and the importance of winter and spring events....Pages 65-78
Stable isotope ratios as a tool for assessing changes in carbon and nutrient sources in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems....Pages 79-88
Upscaling regional emissions of greenhouse gases from rice cultivation: methods and sources of uncertainty....Pages 89-108
Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on nitrogen fixation in arctic ecosystems....Pages 109-120
Stratospheric ozone depletion: high arctic tundra plant growth on Svalbard is not affected by enhanced UV-B after 7 years of UV-B supplementation in the field....Pages 121-136
Outdoor studies on the effects of solar UV-B on bryophytes: overview and methodology....Pages 137-154
A vegetation, climate and environment reconstruction based on palynological analyses of high arctic tundra peat cores (5000–6000 years BP) from Svalbard....Pages 155-174
Physiognomic and chemical characters in wood as palaeoclimate proxies....Pages 175-196
The occurrence of p -coumaric acid and ferulic acid in fossil plant materials and their use as UV-proxy....Pages 197-208
Biomacromolecules of algae and plants and their fossil analogues....Pages 209-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-264