Climate Change and Crops

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Singh, S. N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering,
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Climatic changes.; Environment.; Climate Change.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88246-6

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...

Table of Contents:

• Crop Responses to Elevated Carbon Dioxide and Temperature
• Simulation Studies to Characterize the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production and to Identify Strategies for Adaptation and Mitigation
• Greenhouse Gases from Crop Fields
• Impacts of Ground-level Ozone on Crop Production in a Changing Climate
• Physiological Responses of Higher Plants to UV-B Radiation
• Attenuating Methane Emission from Paddy fields.