Elevated Carbon Dioxide
Subtitle: Impacts on Soil and Plant Water Relations
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781439855058
Subjects: Plants; Botany; Growth (Plants); Plant-water relationships; Plant-soil relationships; Science; Effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide on; Agriculture
Description: Between 1958 and 2008, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere increased from 316 to 385 ppm. Continued increases in CO2 concentration will significantly affect long-term climate change, including variations in agricultural yields. Focusing on this critical issue, Elevated Carbon Dioxide: Impacts on Soil and Plant Water Relations presents research conducted on field-grown sorghum, winter wheat, and rangeland plants under elevated CO2. It describes specific results from pioneering experiments performed over a seven-year period in the Evapotranspiration Laboratory at Kansas State University, alo.
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Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Drought; Chapter 2: Elevated Carbon Dioxide in the Soil: Composition of the Soil Atmosphere; Chapter 3: Elevated Carbon Dioxide in the Soil: Interaction with the Soil Physical Factors That Affect Root Growth; Chapter 4: Elevated Carbon Dioxide in the Soil: Variable Oxygen Concentration and Root Growth; Chapter 5: Elevated Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere: Interaction with the Soil Physical Factors That Affect Root Growth; Chapter 6: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Root Growth.; title: Chapter 7: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Plant Water Potential, Osmotic Potential, and Turgor PotentialChapter 8: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Stomatal Conductance; Chapter 9: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Stomatal Density; Chapter 10: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Transpiration and Evapotranspiration; Chapter 11: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Water Use Efficiency; Chapter 12: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: C3 and C4 Plants; Chapter 13: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Plant Anatomy; Chapter 14: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Phenology.; title: Chapter 15: Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Growth and YieldEpilogue; References; Back Cover.