2-15: Plant Physiological Effects of a Changing Environment

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Adaptation of Plant Systems to CO₂ Increase
  
  
• Thresholds, Reversibility, and Hysteresis
  
  
• Humans Eating Up the Planet
  
  
• Rain-use Efficiency is Similar Across Different Biomes in Dry Years
  
  
• Volcanoes Reduce Atmospheric CO₂
  
  
• "Go North, You Species!"
  
  
• Flowering Early
  
  
• UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
  
  

Websites

• How Plants Affect Climate and Atmosphere
  
  
• Interannual Variability in Net Primary Production and Precipitationcsa
  
  
• Soil, Water,and Crop Characteristics Important to Irrigation Scheduling
  
  
• C3/C4 Metabolism
  
  

Additional References

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• Parmesan, C. and H. Galbraith, 2004: Observed impacts of global climate change in the U.S. (PDF file)
  
  
• Edwards, M., and A.J. Richardson, 2004: Impact of climate change on marine pelagic phenology and trophic mismatch. Nature, 430, 881-884.
  
  
• Fagre, D.B., D.L. Peterson, and A.E. Hessl, 2003: Taking the pulse of mountains: Ecosystem responses to climatic variability. Climatic Change, 59(1-2), 263-282.
  
  
• Hetherington, A. M., and F. I. Woodward, 2003: The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change. Nature, 424, 901-908.
  
  
• Enquist, B. J., E. P. Economo, T. E. Huxman, A. P. Allen, D. D. Ignace, and J. F. Gillooly, 2003: Scaling metabolism from organisms to ecosystems. Nature, 423, 636-642.
  
  
• Gill, R. A., H. W. Polley, H. B. Johnson, L. J. Anderson, H.Maherali, and R. B. Jackson, 2002: Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO2. Nature, 417, 279-282.
  
  
• Lucht, W., I. C. Prentice, R. B. Myneni, S. Sitch, P. Friedlingstein, W. Cramer, P. Bousquet, W. Buermann, and B. Smith, 2002: Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect. Science, 296, 1687-1689.
  
  
• Beaugrand, G., P. C. Reid, F. Ibanez, J. A. Lindley, and M. Edwards, 2002: Reorganization of North Atlantic marine copepod biodiversity and climate. Science, 296, 1692-1694.
  
  
• Knapp, A. K., and M. D. Smith, 2001: Variation among biomes in temporal dynamics of aboveground primary production. Science, 291, 481-484.
  
  
• Etterson, J. R., and R. G. Shaw, 2001: Constraint to Adaptive Evolution in Response to Global Warming. Science, 294, 151-154.
  
  
• Field, C. B., 2001: Sharing the garden. Science, 294, 2490-2491.
  
  
• Duarte, C. M., and S. Agusti, 1998: The CO₂ balance of productive aquatic ecosystems. Science, 281, 234-236.
  
  
• Field, C. B., M. J. Behrenfeld, J. T. Randerson, and P. Falkowski, 1998: Primary production of the biosphere: Integrating terrestrial and oceanic components. Science, 281, 237-240.
  
  
• Jones, T. H., L. J. Thompson, J. H. Lawton, T. M. Bezemer, R. D. Bardgett, T. M. Balckburn, K. D. Bruce, P. F. Cannon, G. S. Hall, S. E. Harley, G. Howson, C. G. Jones, C. Kampichler, E. Kandeler, and D. A. Ritchie, 1998: Impacts of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide on model terrestrial ecosystems. Science, 280, 441-442.
  
  
• Myneni,R.B., C.D. Keeling, C.J.Tucker, G.Asrar and R.R. Nemani, 1997: Increased Plant Growth in the Northern High Latitudes from 1981 to 1991. Nature, 386, 698-702.
  
  
• Omasa, K., K. Kai, H. Taoda, Z. Uchijima, and M. Yoshino, 1996: Climate Change and Plants in East Asia. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 215 pp.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996:Climate Change 1995. The Science of Climate Change.
  
  
• In November 1991, a workshop entitled "CO₂ and Biosphere" was held in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Thirty-two pages from that workshop are compiled in the journal Vegetation, 104/105, (January 1993). This is an excellent source of recent research information on how plants respond to changes in CO₂.
  
  
• Houghton, J.T., G.J. Jenkins, J.J. Ephraums, eds, 1990: 1990 Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 289-300.