1st Edition
Ecophysiology of Tropical Plants Recent Trends and Future Perspectives
Plants in tropical regions are coping with enormous challenges of physiological stresses owing to changing environmental and climatic conditions. Rapid growth of human population and rampant exploitation of fossil fuels and other developmental activities are actively contributing to such perturbations. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has projected a sustained increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and thereby a rise in global temperature in the coming decades. The resultant changes in precipitation patterns are now evident across the globe due to intensication of hydrological cycle. Moreover, gaseous and particulate pollutants are also an immense challenge for tropical plants. Such vagaries in environmental conditions have signicant impacts on the ecophysiological traits of plants, resulting from altered interactions of tropical plants with each other, as well as other biotic and abiotic components within the ecosystem. Books available in the market that particularly focus on ecophysiological responses of tropical plants to abiotic and biotic environmental factors under climate change are limited. This book intends to fill this knowledge gap and provides a detailed analysis on ecophysiological responses of tropical plants to these environmental challenges, as well as suggesting some approachable measures for plant adaptations to these challenges. The book is equally applicable to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, teachers and forest managers, and policy makers.
Salient features of the book are:
- A comprehensive discussion on adaptive mechanisms of plants through their ecophysiological responses to various biotic and abiotic stresses
- Elaboration on the recent techniques involved in ecophysiological research
- A detailed account of evolutionary responses of plants to changing climate
- Discussion of recent research results and some pointers to future advancements in ecophysiological research
- Presentation of information in a way that is accessible for students, researchers, and teachers practicing in plant physiology and ecology.
Section 1: Tropical Plants and Changing Climate Scenarios
Chapter 1 Plant Adaptations in Dry Tropical Biomes: An Ecophysiological Perspective
S. Oyedeji
Chapter 2 Evolutionary Responses of Tropical Plants to Changing Climate
Zirwa Sarwar, Maria Hasnain, Maria Hanif, Huma Waqif, and Neelma Munir
Chapter 3 Ecophysiological Responses of Tropical Plants to Changing Climate
Ranjan Pandey, Harminder Pal Singh, and Daizy R. Batish
Section 2: Tropical Plants Rresponses to Atmospheric Deposition and Air Pollutants
Chapter 4 Impacts of Air Pollutants on the Ecophysiology of Tropical Plants
Pallavi Singh, Jigyasa Prakash, Harshita Singh, Shashi Bhushan Agrawal, and Madhoolika Agrawal
Chapter 5 Impact of Nitrogen Oxides on Tropical Plants
Aisha Kamal, Nida Sultan, Shazia Siddiqui, and Farhan Ahmad
Chapter 6 Impact of Particulate Matter on the Ecophysiology of Plants
Somdutta Sinha Roy, Saloni Bahri, Laishram Sundari Devi, and Sushma Moitra
Chapter 7 Ecophysiological Responses of Tropical Plants to Rising Air Pollution: A Perspective for Urban Areas
Sadhna, Pallavi B. Dhal, Sachchidanand Tripathi, Rajkumari Sanayaima Devi, Rishikesh Singh, and Rahul Bhadouria
Section 3: Tropical Plants Responses to Varying Resource Availability
Chapter 8 Ecophysiological Responses of Tropical Plants to Varying Resources Availability
Wajiha Sarfraz, Mujahid Farid, Noreen Khalid, Allah Ditta, Ujala Ejaz, Zarrin Fatima Rizvi, Nighat Raza, and Shafaqat Ali
Chapter 9 Soil Nutrient Reservoir in a Changing Climate Scenario
Janaki Subramanyan
Chapter 10 Abiotic Stress Responses of a Tropical Plant: Sugarcane (Saccharum Species)
R. Mishra, P. Agarwal, R. Soni, and G. Singh
Chapter 11 Effects of Rising Temperature on Flower Production and Pollen Viability in a Widespread Tropical Tree sSecies, Muntingia calabura
Martijn Slot, Natanja Schuttenhelm, Chinedu E. Eze, and Klaus Winter
Chapter 12 Ecophysiological and Morphological Adaptations of Plants under Temperature Stress: Influence of Phytohormones
Ghalia S. H. Alnusairi, Abbu Zaid, Harvinder Kour, Khadiga Alharbi, and Mona H. Soliman
Chapter 13 Ecophysiological Response of Dipterocarp Seedlings to Ectomycorrhizal Colonisation: A Fungicide Addition Study
Francis Q. Brearley
Chapter 14 Ecophysiological Responses of Tropical Plants to Changing Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide
Rupali Jandrotia, Ipsa Gupta, Riya Raina, and Daizy R. Batish
Section 4: Ecophysiological responses of tropical plants to disturbance events
Chapter 15 Fire and Ecophysiological Responses of Tropical Plants
Shikha Singh and Tanu Kumari
Chapter 16 Climate Change-Mediated Fire Effects on Community Structure and the Physio-Anatomical Adaptations of Plants in Tropical Savannas
S. Oyedeji, C.O. Ogunkunle, S.A. Adeniran, O.O. Agboola, and P.O. Fatoba
Section 5: Ecophysiology and Geoclimatic Factors
Chapter 17 Adaptation of Fruit Trees to Different Elevations in the Tropical Andes
Gerhard Fischer, Helber Enrique Balaguera-López, Alfonso Parra-Coronado, and Stanislav Magnitskiy
Chapter 18 Impact of Altitudinal Shifts and Climatic Changes on Ecophysiological Responses of Tropical Plants
Nagaraj Nallakaruppan, Kalaivani Thiagarajan, and Rajasekaran Chandrasekaran
Section 6: Emerging Techniques in Ecophysiological Research
Chapter 19 An Overview on Emerging Techniques in Ecophysiological Research
Surbhi Sharma, Joat Singh, Neeru Bala, Priyanka Sharma, Shalini Bahel, and Jatinder Kaur Katnoria
Chapter 20 A Critical Review on Different Methods of Estimation of the Above-Ground Biomass and Carbon Stocks in India
Dipti Karmakar, Srimanta Gupta, and Pratap Kumar Padhy
Chapter 21 Brassinosteroid Hormones: A Promising Strategy for Abiotic Stress Management in Plants under Changing Climate
Sandeep Kumar
Chapter 22 Phytohormones: Role in Ecophysiological Responses of Tropical Plants to Varying Resource Availability
Pallavi B. Dhal, Sadhna, Rajkumari Sanayaima Devi, Rahul Bhadouria, and Sachchidanand Tripathi
Chapter 23 Next-Generation Techniques in Ecophysiology: Metabolomics, Proteomics, SAR/QSAR
Priyanka Rathore and Rashmi Shakya
Chapter 24 Markers of Oxidative Stress in Plants
Rashmi Shakya and Deepali
Biography
Sachchidanand Tripathi is presently working as Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India. The areas of his interest are plant ecology, soil ecology, ecophysiology and urban ecology. He has published more than 50 publications (including research publications, books and book chapters, conference proceedings) with reputed international journals and publishers.
Rahul Bhadouria is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has published more than 22 papers, 22 book chapters, and 8 edited books in internationally reputed journals/publishers. His current research areas are, management of soil C dynamics to mitigate climate change, a perspective on tree seedling survival and growth attributes in tropical dry forests under the realm of climate change, plant community assembly, functional diversity and soil attributes along the forest-savanna-grassland continuum in India, recovery of degraded mountains in central Himalayas and urban ecology.
Dr. Pratap Srivastava is presently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, India. He has completed his Ph.D. in Botany from Banaras Hindu University, India. His area of research includes soil C dynamics, biochar technology, plant ecology, and waste management. He has published more than 50 research publications in international journals/books in the fields of soil C dynamics, C sequestration, environmental contaminant removal and waste management. He is actively involved as an ad-hoc reviewer of several international journals published by reputed publishers.
Rishikesh Singh is working as National Post-doctoral Fellow (NPDF) at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Singh obtained his doctoral degree from Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is an environmental scientist with his research interests in soil carbon dynamics, land-use change and management, waste management, environmental contaminants, biochar, and carbon sequestration. He has published several research and review articles, and is a reviewer of several international journals of Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Frontiers, PLoS, and Springer Nature groups. He has published six books in leading international publishers such as Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley.
Dr. Rajkumari S. Devi is presently working as Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi), Delhi, India. She obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, India. The area of her research is plant conservation and cryobiology. She has published more than 30 publications with international journals and publishers.
