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Plant regeneration from seeds : a global warming perspective /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK :
Academic Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Plant Regeneration from Seeds
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the authors
- Introduction
- Background
- Seed dormancy/germination and seedling survival
- Seed production and quality
- Dormancy break
- Temperature requirements for germination
- Shifts in timing of germination
- Seedling survival and drought stress
- Consequences of global warming on species, populations, and communities
- Extinction
- Migration
- Transgenerational and phenotypic plasticity and adaptation
- Changes in community composition
- Interactions between fire, seed banks, and invasive species
- Special concerns about seagrasses, species with desiccation-sensitive seeds, and annual food crops
- Seagrasses
- Species with recalcitrant seeds
- Annual crops
- Aims of this book
- References
- Further reading
- I. Biogeography
- 1 Effect of climate change on plant regeneration from seeds in the arctic and alpine biome
- Introduction
- Climate warming in the arctic-alpine life zones
- Effects of climate warming on arctic-alpine plants
- Climate warming and plant regeneration from seeds in alpine-arctic environments
- Seed production and seed mass
- Seed dispersal in time and space
- Seed dormancy and germination
- Seedling emergence and establishment
- Conclusions and future research
- References
- Further reading
- 2 Effects of climate change on regeneration of plants from seeds in boreal, subarctic, and subalpine regions
- The boreal ecosystem
- Recruitment from seeds in the boreal zone
- Predicted climate change and its impact on the boreal zone
- Sampling and characterizing the knowledge base
- Seed production
- Seed dormancy and germination
- Seedling survival and growth
- Long-term consequences of climate change on seedling recruitment
- Future research
- References
- 3 Effects of climate change on plant regeneration from seeds in the cold deserts of Central Asia
- Introduction
- Climate change in cold deserts of Central Asia
- Plant life history traits
- Seed dormancy/germination
- Seedling survival and growth
- Plant growth, development, biomass accumulation/allocation, and seed production
- Phenology
- Plant morphological characters
- Dry mass accumulation and allocation
- Number of seeds produced
- Importance of heterodiaspory
- Vegetation and community dynamics
- Future research needs
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 4 Plant regeneration by seeds in hot deserts
- Introduction
- Climate change in deserts
- Effects of increasing temperature
- Increasing temperature effects on seed survival
- Increasing temperature effects on dormancy and seed banks
- Increasing temperature effects on germination
- Effects of decreasing precipitation
- Decreasing precipitation effects on dormancy and seed banks
- Decreasing precipitation effects on germination