Plants and Climate Change focuses on how climate affects or
affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and past.
The chapters describe how ecosystems from the Antarctic and Arctic
and from other latitudes respond to global climate change.
The papers highlight plant responses to atmospheric CO2
increase, to global warming and to increased ultraviolet-B
radiation as a result of stratospheric ozone depletion.
Depending on how and how well plant responses to increased
temperature, atmospheric CO2 and ultraviolet-B have been preserved
in the (sub)-fossil record, past climates and past atmospheric
chemistry may be reconstructed. Pollen and tree-ring data reflect
plant species composition and variation of temperature and
precipitation over long or shorter time intervals. In addition to
well preserved morphological and chemical plant properties, new
analytical techniques such as stable isotopes are becoming
increasingly important in this respect. The development and
validation of such biotic climate and environment proxies build a
bridge between biological and geological research. This highlights
that plant-climate change research is becoming a multi- and
transdisciplinary field of relevant research.
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