Singh Climate Change and Crops

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-540-88246-6
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Environmental Science and Engineering

Climate change is directly linked to the human activities, according to the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC (2007). In last two decades of 20th Century, accelerated anthropogenic activities pushed up the atmospheric abundance of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, CH4, and N2O, alarmingly which enhanced the radiative forcing of the Earth's surface and thus perturbed its heat radiation balance. As a consequence, atmospheric characteristics, such as temperature, rainfall pattern, levels of CO2 and O3 have changed significantly, affecting the farm productivity. Although rising level of CO2 may have fertilizing effect on C3 crops, but concomitant rise in atmospheric temperature, O3 level and extreme weather conditions can not only nullify the fertilizing effect of CO2, but also drastically reduce the crop production, threatening food security to burgeoning world population. Agricultural crops are not only victim of climate variability and extreme whether conditions, but also serve as a potential source of CH4 and N2O. Therefore, in changed scenario, Kyoto Protocol (1997) has sought all signatory developed nations to cut down their emission levels as per their differential commitments to UNFCCC and developing nations to invest in less carbon emission projects to avert the process of global warming process. In this context, the present edition, which compiles latest findings of studies carried out by the scientists on climate change and crops around the world, serves as a ready reckoner to crop scientists, atmospheric scientists, ecologists, environmentalists, research scholars and post- graduate students to update their knowledge and understanding on this issue.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, S. N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;8
3;Contributors;10
4;to 1 Crop Responses to Elevated Carbon Dioxide and Temperature ;14
4.1;Mirwais M. Qaderi and David M. Reid;14
5;to 2 Climate Change, Climate Variability and Indian Agriculture: Impacts Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategies ;32
5.1;Shakeel A. Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, M.Z. Hussain and N. Kalra;32
6;to 3 Simulation Studies to Characterize the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production and to Identify Strategies for Adaptation and Mitigation ;52
6.1;P. Krishnan, B. Ramakrishnan, K.S. Rao and R.N. Dash;52
7;to 4 Response of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) to Increasing Temperature and Atmospheric CO2 ;75
7.1;S.V.K. Jagadish and Madan Pal;75
8;to 5 Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Cropland Soils -- Climate Opportunities and Threats ;93
8.1;Pete Falloon, Pete Smith, Richard Betts, Chris D. Jones, Jo Smith, Deborah Hemming and Andy Challinor;93
9;to 6 Greenhouse Gases from Crop Fields ;124
9.1;Zhengqin Xiong and M.A.K. Khalil;124
10;to 7 Environmental Parameters Influencing the Methane Emissions in the Pantanal Floodplain, Brazil ;144
10.1;P.C. Alvalá and L. Marani;144
11;to 8 Nitrous Oxide Emission from Crop Fields and Its Role in Atmospheric Radiative Forcing ;158
11.1;Deepanjan Majumdar;158
12;to 9 Quantifying Direct N2O Emissions from Paddy Fields During Rice Growing Season in Mainland China in 1980s and 1990s ;202
12.1;Jianwen Zou, Yao Huang and Yanyu Lu;202
13;to 10 Impacts of Ground-Level Ozone on Crop Production in a Changing Climate ;224
13.1;K. Vandermeiren, H. Harmens, G. Mills and L. De Temmerman;224
14;to 11 Ozone-Induced Changes in Plant Secondary Metabolism ;255
14.1;Marcello Iriti and Franco Faoro;255
15;to 12 Crop Responses to Enhanced UV-B Radiation ;279
15.1;B. Breznik, M. Germ, I. Kreft and A. Gaberšcik;279
16;to 13 Physiological Responses of Higher Plants to UV-B Radiation ;292
16.1;Ivanka S. Fedina and Maya Y. Velitchkova;292
17;to 14 Possibility of Water Management for Mitigating Total Emission of Greenhouse Gases from Irrigated Paddy Fields ;315
17.1;Kazunori Minamikawa and Kazuyuki Yagi;315
18;to 15 Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emission from Agriculture ;337
18.1;T.K. Adhya, P.D. Sharma and A. Kumar Gogoi;337
19;to 16 Attenuating Methane Emission from Paddy Fields ;353
19.1;S.N. Singh, Larisha Tyagi and Sadhna Tiwari;353
20;Index;384