Trees in a Changing Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Resource Allocation and Trade-Offs in Carbon Gain of Leaves Under Changing Environment

   • Kouki Hikosaka, Yuko Yasumura, Onno Muller, Riichi Oguchi

   Pages 1-24

3. Ecophysiological Aspects of Phloem Transport in Trees

   • Teemu Hölttä, Maurizio Mencuccini, Eero Nikinmaa

   Pages 25-36

4. Mycorrhizae and Global Change

   • Michael F. Allen, Kuni Kitajima, Rebecca R. Hernandez

   Pages 37-59

5. Dynamic Stomatal Changes

   • Hartmut Kaiser, Elena Paoletti

   Pages 61-82

6. The Regulation of Osmotic Potential in Trees

   • Andrew Merchant

   Pages 83-97

7. Ecophysiology of Long-Distance Water Transport in Trees

   • Hanno Richter, Silvia Kikuta

   Pages 99-115

8. Forest Trees Under Air Pollution as a Factor of Climate Change

   • Rainer Matyssek, Alessandra R. Kozovits, Jörg-Peter Schnitzler, Hans Pretzsch, Jochen Dieler, Gerhard Wieser

   Pages 117-163

9. Influence of Atmospheric and Climate Change on Tree Defence Chemicals

   • Jason Q. D. Goodger, Ian E. Woodrow

   Pages 165-190

10. Control over Growth in Cold Climates

    • Sergio Rossi, Annie Deslauriers, Carlo Lupi, Hubert Morin

    Pages 191-219

11. Treelines in a Changing Global Environment

    • Gerhard Wieser, Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier, William K. Smith

    Pages 221-263

12. The Future of Trees in a Changing Climate: Synopsis

    • Nancy Grulke, Michael Tausz

    Pages 265-279

13. Back Matter

    Pages 281-287

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This book delivers current state-of-the-science knowledge of tree ecophysiology, with particular emphasis on adaptation to a novel future physical and chemical environment. Unlike the focus of most books on the topic, this considers air chemistry changes (O3, NOx, and N deposition) in addition to elevated CO2 effects and its secondary effects of elevated temperature. The authors have addressed two systems essential for plant life: water handling capacity from the perspective of water transport; the coupling of xylem and phloem water potential and flow; water and nutrition uptake via likely changes in mycorrhizal relationships; control of water loss via stomata and its retention via cellular regulation; and within plant carbon dynamics from the perspective of environmental limitations to growth, allocation to defences, and changes in partitioning to respiration. The authors offer expert knowledge and insight to develop likely outcomes within the context of many unknowns. We offer this comprehensive analysis of tree responses and their capacity to respond to environmental changes to provide a better insight in understanding likelihood for survival, as well as planning for the future with long-lived, stationary organisms adapted to the past: trees.

• Air chemistry effects on trees
• Asynchrony of plant adaptation and climate change
• Climate change
• Environmental limitations to growth
• Water handling capacity
• air pollution and air quality

“This volume, edited by Tausz (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia) and Grulke (USDA Forest Service), brings together a collection of 11 papers that address the physiological responses of trees to environmental change, and the ecological implications of those responses. … Each chapter is well referenced to the primary literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty.” (A. Richardson, Choice, Vol. 52 (8), April, 2015)

“The book offers an integrated, qualitative, and comprehensive analysis of the capacity of trees to respond to environmental changes, and will be of great interest to plant scientists, policy makers, and forest officials. … ‘the authors in this book used their expert knowledge and insight to develop qualitative conclusions within the context of many unknowns’.” (P. C. Abhilash, Vishal Tripathi, Rama Kant Dubey and Sheikh Adil Edrisi, Trends in Plant Science, February, 2015)

• Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  Michael Tausz

• Pacific NW Research Station WWETAC, USDA Forest Service, Prineville, USA

  Nancy Grulke

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