Plant Science

Virtual Issue - Climate Change

Virtual Issue - Climate Change


Wiley-Blackwell is pleased to present this collection of free articles and sample chapters focusing on the interrelated processes of climate change, agriculture, and the function of plants.

Biofpr

Land Use Change: finding the middle ground

As the use of biofuels have created something of a modern day gold rush for land suitable for growing crops for fuel, so the issue of indirect land use change (ILUC) has created a seemingly unbridgeable gulf. The gulf exists between those that believe ILUC will ultimately have a devastating impact on the environment and society, and those that believe concerns related to ILUC do not provide a sound basis on which to build policy.

 Biofuels, Bioproducts, Biorefining

Biotropica

Recent Changes in Patch Characteristics and Plant Communities in the Jalca Grasslands of the Peruvian Andes
Carolina Tovar, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Isidoro Sánchez-Vega, et al

 Biotropica

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 

Evolution of the climatic niche in scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae, Polypodiopsida
Nadia Bystriakova, Harald Schneider Fls, David Coomes

 Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Conservation Biology 

Carbon Payments and Low-Cost Conservation
Neville D. Crossman, Brett A. Bryan and David M. Summers

 Conservation Biology

Conservation Letters 

Biodiversity co-benefits of reducing emissions from deforestation under alternative reference levels and levels of finance
Jonah Busch, Fabiano Godoy, Will R. Turner, et al

 Conservation Letters

Ecology and Evolution 

Population decrease of Scirpophaga incertulas Walker (Lepidoptera Pyralidae) under climate warming
Peijian Shi, Ling Zhong, Hardev S. Sandhu, et al  

Criteria for assessing climate change impacts on ecosystems
Craig Loehle

 Ecology and Evolution

Ecology Letters 

Climate change threatens European conservation areas
Miguel B. Araújo, Diogo Alagador, Mar Cabeza, et al

 Ecology Letters

European Journal of Soil Science 

Volume 61, issue 1, devoted to soil carbon and contains papers by Chinese authors and on Chinese soils

Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change: a critical re-examination to identify the true and the false
D. S. Powlson, A. P. Whitmore, K. W. T. Goulding 

Soil carbon and climate change: from the Jenkinson effect to the compost-bomb instability 
Luke, P. M. Cox

 European Journal of Soil Science

Food and Energy Security

Food and Energy Security is a high quality and high impact open access journal publishing original research on agricultural crop and forest productivity to improve food and energy security

 Food and Energy Security

Global Change Biology 

Attribution of climate change: a methodology to estimate the potential contribution to increases in potato yield in Scotland since 1960
P J Gregory, B Marshall  

Quantifying the effects of ozone on plant reproductive growth and development
Courtney P. Leisner, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

 Global Change Biology

Global Change Biology Bioenergy 

Food vs. fuel: the use of land for lignocellulosic ‘next generation’ energy crops that minimize competition with primary food production
John Valentine, John Clifton-Brown, Astley Hastings et al  

A biophysical model of Sugarcane growth
 S. V. Cuadra, M. H. Costa, C. J. Kucharik, et al

 Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Journal of Ecology 

Modelling spread of British wind-dispersed plants under future wind speeds in a changing climate
James M. Bullock, Steven M. White, Christel Prudhomme, et al  

Forecasting plant community impacts of climate variability and change: when do competitive interactions matter?
Peter B. Adler, Harmony J. Dalgleish, Stephen P. Ellner

 Journal of Ecology

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 

Global climate change and its impacts on the terrestrial Arctic carbon cycle with special regards to ecosystem components and the greenhouse-gas balance
Markus Jahn, et al  

Managing soils for a warming earth in a food-insecure and energy-starved world
Rattan Lal

 Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 

Impacts of climate change and inter-annual variability on cereal crops in China from 1980 to 2008
Tianyi Zhang and Yao Huang  

Ochratoxigenic moulds and effectiveness of grape field antifungals in a climatic change scenario
García-Cela, E., Ramos, A. J., Sanchis, V., et al

 Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Natural Resource Modeling 

Climate change and cooperation in transboundary water sharing: an application of stochastic stackelberg differential games in volta river basin
Anik Bhaduri, Utpal Manna, Edward Barbier, et al

 Natural Resource Modeling

New Phytologist 

Tansley review: Leaf-out phenology of temperate woody plants: from trees to ecosystems
Caroline A. Polgar, Richard B. Primack 

Contrasting impacts of climate-driven flowering phenology on changes in alien and native plant species distributions
Philip E. Hulme

 New Phytologist

Nordic Journal of Botany 

Effect of the extreme summer heat waves on isolated populations of two orophitic plants in the north Apennines (Italy)
Thomas Abeli, Graziano Rossi, Rodolfo Gentili, et al

 Nordic Journal of Botany

Oikos 

The interacting effects of land use change, climate change and suppression of natural disturbances on landscape forest structure in the Swiss Alps
Dominik Kulakowski, Peter Bebi and Christian Rixe

 Oikos

Pest Management Science

Climate change: a crop protection challenge for the twenty-first century
David I Gustafson 

Effects of disease control by fungicides on greenhouse gas emissions by UK arable crop production
David J Hughes, Jonathan S West, Simon D Atkins, et al

 Pest Management Science

Plant Biology 

Physical connection decreases benefits of clonal integration in Alternanthera philoxeroides under three warming scenarios
J.-J. Li, P.-H. Peng, W.-M. He  

Low rainfall-induced shift in leaf trait relationship within species along a semi-arid sandy land transect in northern China
H. Wei, B. Wu, W. Yang, et al

 Plant Biology

Plant Breeding 

Mapping QTL for heat tolerance at flowering stage in rice using SNP markers
Changrong Ye, May A. Argayoso, Youngjun Mo, et al  

Expression analysis of abiotic stress-responsive genes in two rice heterotic crosses under cold, heat and drought stresses
Shufeng Song, Li Li, Xiping Yang, et al

 Plant Breeding

Restoration Ecology  

Mapping Restoration Opportunity for Collaborating with Land Managers in a Carbon Credit-Funded Restoration Program in the Makana Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Patrick Curran, David Smedley, Peter Thompson, et al

 Restoration Ecology

Soil Use and Management  

Greenhouse gas mitigation potential of agricultural land in Great Britain
N. Fitton, C. P. Ejerenwa, A. Bhogal, et al  

Mitigating methane emissions from irrigated paddy fields by application of aerobically composted livestock manures in eastern China
Ruirui Chen, Xiangui Lin, Yiming Wang, et al

 Soil Use and Management

The Plant Journal  

System responses to long-term drought and re-watering of two contrasting alfalfa varieties
Yun Kang, Yuanhong Han, Ivone Torres-Jerez, et al  

Barley mildew and its elicitor chitosan promote closed stomata by stimulating guard-cell S-type anion channels
Sandra Koers, Aysin Guzel-Deger, Irene Marten, et al

 The Plant Journal

 

 Crop Adaptation to Climate Change  Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change

Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

Shyam Singh Yadav, et al
ISBN: 978-0-8138-2016-3
632 pages October 2011
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 Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change:
Science, Policy, and Ethics 

Thomas J. Sauer, et al
ISBN:  978-0-470-95857-5
264 pages October 2011
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 Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress  Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops

 Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress:
Two Volume Set 

Narendra Tuteja, et al
ISBN:  978-3-527-32840-6
1550 pages February 2012
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   The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops  

Malcolm J. Hawkesford & Peter Barraclough
ISBN:  978-0-8138-1992-1
512 pages August 2011
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Organic Crop Breeding

 Conservation Biogeography  

Organic Crop Breeding 

Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren, James R. Myers
 ISBN: 978-0-470-95858-2
 312 pages February 2012
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   Conservation Biogeography

Richard J. Ladle, Robert J. Whittaker
 ISBN: 978-1-4443-3504-0
 320 pages February 2011
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