Research Catalog

Title

Plant responses to elevated C0₂ : evidence from natural springs / edited by A. Raschi [and others].

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Raschi, A.

Description

xiv, 272 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

The rise in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since the start of industrialisation, and the global warming associated with this greenhouse gas, has stimulated research into the response of plants to elevated levels of CO2. Much of this work has been carried out in controlled environments which provide limited information about long-term effects on vegetation. In contrast, CO2-emitting mineral springs provide a unique opportunity to consider vegetation which has endured over many generations at naturally elevated levels of CO2. This volume presents findings from a range of sites, confirming the potential of these natural laboratories in the investigation of this important aspect of climate change.

Subject

• Plants > Effect of carbon dioxide on
• Carbon dioxide > Environmental aspects
• Springs
• Carbon dioxide
• Climatic changes
• Carbon Dioxide
• Climate Change
• springs (bodies of water)
• carbon dioxide
• climate change
• Climatic changes
• Carbon dioxide
• Carbon dioxide > Environmental aspects
• Plants > Effect of carbon dioxide on
• Springs
• PLANTS (BOTANY)
• CARBON DIOXIDE
• CARBON CYCLE
• ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS
• SPRINGS (WATER)
• Hot spring plants

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sites of naturally elevated carbon dioxide / Grace and P. R. Van G Ardingen -- Migration in the ground of CO2 and other volatile contaminants; theory and survey / G. Etiope -- Levels of CO2, leakage in relation to geology / G. Etiope and Lombardi -- CO2 emission in volcanic areas: case histories and hazards / M. Martini -- Controlled degassing of lakes with high CO2 content in Cameroon: an opportunity for ecosystem CO2-enrichment experiments / M. Mousseau, Z. H. Enoch and J. C. Sabroux -- Burning coal seams in southern Utah: a natural system for studies of plant responses to elevated CO2 / J. R. Ehleringer, D. R. Sandquist and S. L. Philips -- Long-term effects of enhanced CO2 concentrations on leaf gas exchange: research opportunities using CO2 springs / P. R. Van Gardingen, J. Grace, C. E. Jeffree , S. H. Byari, F. Miglietta, A. Raschi and I. Bettarini -- Using Icelandic CO2 springs to understand the long-term effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 / A. C. Cook, W. C. Oechel and B. Sveinbjornsson -- Plant CO2 responses in the long term: plants from CO2 springs in Florida and tombs in Egypt / F. I. Woodward and D. J. Beerling -- Acidophilic grass communities of CO2 springs in central Italy: composition, structure and ecology / F. Selvi -- Studying morpho-physiological responses of Scirpus lacustris from naturally CO2-enriched environments / I. Bettarini, F. Miglietta and A. Raschi -- Carbon physiology of Quercus pubescens wild; growing at the Bossoleto CO2 spring in central Italy / J. D. Johnson, M. Michelozzi and R. Tognetti -- Preliminary results on dissolved inorganic 13C and 14C content of a CO2-rich mineral spring of California (NE Spain) and of plants growing in its surroundings / J. Piñol and J. Terradas -- The impact of elevated CO2 on the growth of Agrostis canina and Plantago major adapted to contrasting CO2 concentrations / M. C. Fordham, J. D. Barnes, I. Bettarini, H. G. Griffiths, F. Miglietta and A. Raschi -- Stomatal numbers in holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) leaves grown in naturally and artificially CO2-enriched environments / E. Paoletti, F. Miglietta, A. Raschi, F. Manes and P. Grossoni -- Effects of CO2 on NH4+ assimilation by Cyanidium caldarium, an acidophilic hot springs and hot soils unicellular alga / C. Rigano, V. Di Martino Rigano, V. Vona, S. Esposito and C. Di Martino -- Can rising CO2 alleviate oxidative risk for the plant cell? testing the hypothesis under natural CO2 enrichment / M. Badiani, A. R. Paolacci, A. D’Annibale, F. Miglietta and A. Raschi -- Increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and decomposition processes in forest ecosystems / P. Ineson and M. F. Cotrufo.

ISBN

• 0521582032
• 9780521582032

LCCN

97008030

OCLC

• ocm36520998
• 36520998
• SCSB-9259912

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library