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Trees in a Changing Environment

Ecophysiology, Adaptation, and Future Survival

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Michael Tausz

    1. Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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  2. Nancy Grulke

    1. Pacific NW Research Station WWETAC, USDA Forest Service, Prineville, USA

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  • Concurrent consideration of air pollution effects (O3, NOx, N deposition) in addition to plant fertilization and greenhouse gas effects of elevated CO2
  • Authors carefully evaluate, challenge dogma, and propose and support new hypotheses on physiological functions
  • Fills a gap in the field of tree ecophysiology
  • State-of-the-art compendium of current knowledge in physiological ecology of trees
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Plant Ecophysiology (KLEC, volume 9)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Reviews

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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