Plants and Climate Change (eBook)

CONTENTS 5
Preface: Special issue – Plants and Climate Change 7
Responses of terrestrial Antarctic ecosystems to climate change 9
Vascular plant responses to elevated CO2 in a temperate lowland Sphagnum peatland 20
Moss responses to elevated CO2 and variation in hydrology in a temperate lowland peatland 33
From transient to steady-state response of ecosystems to atmospheric CO2- enrichment and global climate change: conceptual challenges and need for an integrated approach 48
Plant performance in a warmer world: general responses of plants from cold, northern biomes and the importance of winter and spring events 69
Stable isotope ratios as a tool for assessing changes in carbon and nutrient sources in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems 83
Upscaling regional emissions of greenhouse gases from rice cultivation: methods and sources of uncertainty 92
Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on nitrogen fixation in arctic ecosystems 111
Stratospheric ozone depletion: high arctic tundra plant growth on Svalbard is not affected by enhanced UV- B after 7 years of UV- B supplementation in the field 122
Outdoor studies on the effects of solar UV-B on bryophytes: overview and methodology 138
A vegetation, climate and environment reconstruction based on palynological analyses of high arctic tundra peat cores ( 5000 – 6000 years BP) from Svalbard 155
Physiognomic and chemical characters in wood as palaeoclimate proxies 175
The occurrence of p-coumaric acid and ferulic acid in fossil plant materials and their use as UV- proxy 197
Biomacromolecules of algae and plants and their fossil analogues 209
SUBJECT INDEX VOLUME 182 2006 234
SPECIES INDEX VOLUME 182 2006 253
AUTHOR INDEX VOLUME 182 2006 258
Tasks for vegetation science 259