Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 19. Land Use Change, Air Pollution and Climate Change—Vegetation Response in Latin...
By Alessandra R. Kozovits, Mercedes M.C. BustamanteOver recent decades, climate changes, especially revealed through alteration in rainfall patterns, with apparent intensification of the dry season, have been documented throughout Latin America.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 25. Targeting Sustainable Provision of Forest Ecosystem Services with Special Focus on...
By David Miller, Maria NijnikContemporary societies expect a range of services (including of carbon sequestration) to be supplied from forest ecosystems.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Understanding and Perspectives from Forest Research
This book aims to increase understanding of the state and potential of forest ecosystems to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a polluted environment.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 26. Global Change and the Role of Forests in Future Land-Use Systems
By Andreas Hahn, Thomas KnokeWe analyse options to adapt forest and agricultural ecosystems to the adverse consequences of climatic change.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 16. Interactive Effects of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems...
By Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Mark Fenn, Steven McNultyA review of the current status of air pollution and climate change (CC) in the United States from a perspective of their impacts on forest ecosystems is provided.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 7. Soil Respiration and Soil Organic Matter Decomposition in Response to Climate...
By Judy Simon, Heinz Rennenberg, Jörg KruseThis review is focused on the effects of enhanced temperature and altered precipitation on soil respiration—that is, the sum of autotrophic root and heterotrophic microbial respiration.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 15. Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Increase Our Understanding About Defence Responses and Genotypic...
By Elina Oksanen, Sarita Keski-Saari, Sari Kontunen-SoppelaIn this chapter, we present information about metabolomic, transcriptomic and ecophysiological responses of birch (Betula pendula, Betula papyrifera) and aspen (Populus tremula, Populus tremula×Populus tremuloides, Populus nigra) species ...
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 24. Forest Ecosystem Services Under Climate Change and Air Pollution
By Jan Pokorny, Olaf Bastian, Pavel CudlínForests provide many supporting, regulating and cultural services.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 18. Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Plants: Implications for...
By Vivek Pandey, Chhemendra Sharma, Elina OksanenThe air pollution and greenhouse gas emission problem has been exacerbated in India due to large population increase and rapid economic growth.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 23. Key Indicators of Air Pollution and Climate Change Impacts at Forest...
By Rainer Matyssek, Elena Paoletti, Wim de VriesUntangling the complex effects that different air pollution and climate change factors cause to forest ecosystems is challenging.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 22. Towards Supersites in Forest Ecosystem Monitoring and Research
By Richard Fischer, Nicholas Clarke, Teis Nørgaard MikkelsenConsequences of climate change in combination with air pollution for ecosystem services are multiple but hard to predict.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 9. Tree and Forest Responses to Interacting Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Tropospheric...
By John King, Lingli Liu, Michael AspinwallGoods and services provided by forests will be needed in greater amounts in the coming decades, yet are threatened by climate change and air pollution.
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: Chapter 2. Gaseous Exchange Between Forests and the Atmosphere
By Rainer Matyssek, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Gerhard WieserIn this review, we focus on a few related topics, including the emission of greenhouse gases from the forest floor, and vegetation fires and their impact on air quality and soil CO2 efflux.