Plant Responses to Air Pollution and Global Change

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Omasa, Kenji (Editor), Nouchi, Isamu (Editor), Kok, Luit J. De (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan, 2005.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biotechnology.; Ecosystems.; Plant science.; Botany.; Climate change.; Pollution.; Air pollution.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Pollution, general.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Climate Change.

The main force behind climate change is the elevated concentration of CO2 in the at­ mosphere. Carbon dioxide and air pollutants come mostly from the same industrial sources and diffuse globally, so that air pollution is also part of global change in the pre­ sent era. The impacts on plants and plan...