Climate Change and Crops (eBook)

S.N. Singh (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 2009
XIV, 384 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-88246-6 (ISBN)

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Climate change is directly linked to the human activities, according to the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC (2007). In last two decades of 20^th Century, accelerated anthropogenic activities pushed up the atmospheric abundance of greenhouse gases, mainly CO_2, 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 CO_2, 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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Environmental Science and Engineering
• Reihe/Serie: Environmental Science and Engineering
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 384 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • climate change • Climate change impacts • crops • global warming • greenhouse • Greenhouse Gas • Kyoto Protocol • Oxide • Temperature
• ISBN-10: 3-540-88246-4 / 3540882464
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-88246-6 / 9783540882466