One of the most problematic issues confronting societies today is the massive transformations of the environment throughout the world. The challenge of maintaining a sustainable environment is the most pressing issue of our time.
Author(s): Shashi Bhushan Agrawal
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 407
City: Boca Raton
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Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1 Global Climate Change and Crop Responses: Uncertainties Associated with the Current Methodologies
Chapter 2 The Effects of Climate Change on the Behavior of Woody Perennials
Chapter 3 CO2 Enrichment of the Atmosphere and the Water Economy of Plants
Chapter 4 Plant Responses to Elevated CO2: A Perspective from Natural CO2 Springs
Chapter 5 UV-Effects on Plants
Chapter 6 Field Studies on Impacts of Air Pollution on Agricultural Crops
Chapter 7 Air Pollution and Vegetation Damage in South America: State of Knowledge and Perspectives
Chapter 8 Effects of Air Pollution on Plant Diversity
Chapter 9 Effects of Tropospheric Ozone on Woody Plants
Chapter 10 Extracellular Antioxidants: A Protective Screen Against Ozone?
Chapter 11 Early Detection, Mechanisms of Tolerance, and Amelioration of Ozone Stress in Crop Plants
Chapter 12 Defense Strategies against Ozone in Trees: The Role of Nutrition
Chapter 13 Use of Protective Chemicals to Assess the Effects of Ambient Ozone on Plants
Chapter 14 Sources, Atmospheric Transport, and Sinks of Tropospheric Nitrous and Nitric Acids
Chapter 15 Effects of Sulfur Dioxide and Acid Deposition on Chinese Crops
Chapter 16 The Use of Calibrated Passive Monitors to Assess Crop Loss Due to Ozone in Rural Locations
Chapter 17 Wild Plant and Crop Plant Species for In Situ Microspore Analysis of a Polluted Environment
Chapter 18 Phytomonitoring in Industrial Areas
Chapter 19 Statistical Baseline Values for Chemical Elements in the Lichen Hypogymnia physodes
Chapter 20 Monitoring Air Pollutant Deposition in the Arctic with a Lichen by Means of Microscopy and Energy-Dispersive X-ray Microanalysis: A Case Study
Chapter 21 Phytochelatins and Metal Tolerance
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