The arctic region is predicted to experience the earliest and most pronounced global warming response to human-induced climatic change. This book synthesizes information on the physiological ecology of arctic plants, discusses how physiological processes influence ecosystem processes, and explores how climate warming will affect arctic plants, plant communities, and ecosystem processes.
Key Features
* Reviews the physiological ecology of arctic plants
* Explores biotic controls over community and ecosystems processes
* Provides physiological bases for predicting how the Arctic will respond to global climate change
Recenzijos
"This book will serve as an excellent introduction to and synthesis of the current status of knowledge, and it is timely in anticipation of new Arctic ecological research efforts proposed by a number of agencies... One of its strengths is the selection of authors... The book is timely, because the time when warming may become an observed reality is close, and this synthesis will be of great value in the planning and conduct of related research. It is a book for the practicing biological scientist rather than the policy maker of even the generalist." --BIOSCIENCE
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Key Features * Reviews the physiological ecology of arctic plants * Explores biotic controls over community and ecosystems processes * Provides physiological bases for predicting how the Arctic will respond to global climate change
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Arctic System: B. Maxwell, Arctic Climate: Potential for Change under Global
Warming. D.L. Kane, L.D. Hinzman, M. Woo, and K.R. Everett, Arctic Hydrology
and Climate Change. L.C. Bliss and N.V. Matveyeva, Circumpolar Arctic
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Arctic Flora and Vegetation in a Changing Climate. L.C. Bliss and K.M.
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Species in the Arctic. Carbon Balance: W.C. Oechel and W.D. Billings, Effects
of Global Change on the Carbon Balance of Arctic Plants and Ecosystems. O.A.
Semikhatova, T.V. Gerasimenko, and T.I. Ivanova, Photosynthesis, Respiration,
and Growth of Plants in the Soviet Arctic. G.R. Shaver and J. Kummerow,
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in a Changing Climate. Water and Nutrient Balance: S.F. Oberbauer and T.E.
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Giblin, G.R. Shaver, and A.E. Linkins, Microbial Processes and Plant Nutrient
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in Arctic Plant Communities. K. Kielland and F.S. Chapin III, Nutrient
Absorption and Accumulation in Arctic Plants. F. Berendse and S. Jonasson,
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McGraw and N. Fetcher, Response of Tundra Plant Populations to Climatic
Change. J.P. Bryant and P.B. Reichardt, Controls over Secondary Metabolite
Production by Arctic Woody Plants. R.L. Jefferies, J. Svoboda, G. Henry, M.
Raillard, and R. Ruess, Tundra Grazing Systems and Climatic Change. J.F.
Reynolds and P.W. Leadley, Modeling the Response of Arctic Plants to Changing
Climate. F.S. Chapin III, R.L. Jefferies, J.F. Reynolds, G.R. Shaver, and J.
Svoboda, Arctic Plant Physiological Ecology in an Ecosystem Context. Index.
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