1st Edition

Co2 And Plants The Response Of Plants To Rising Levels Of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Edited By Edgar R. Lemon Copyright 1983
302 Pages
by CRC Press

302 Pages
by CRC Press

302 Pages
by CRC Press

This book presents information on the direct effects of increased atmospheric CO2 on plants. It considers what we already know about plant responses to various CO2 concentrations. .

Conference Background -- Preface -- Interpretive Summary -- An Overview -- Carbon Metabolism -- Physiological Effects -- Plant Growth and Development -- Microbial Effects -- Terrestrial Plant Communities -- Aquatic Plant Communities

Biography

Edgar R. Lemon is a Soil scientist formerly with the USDA Agricultural Research Service. He was professor of agronomy at Cornell, an exchange scientist to the USSR, a Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow to Australia, a DSIR Fellow to New Zealand, and was chairman of the IBP Subcommittee on Photosynthesis and Production Processes. His interests are crop micrometeorology, carbon dioxide exchange in Plant com[1]munities, and the physical environment of plants.