Environmental Plant Physiology

Botanical Strategies for a Climate Smart Planet

Vir Singh

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CRC Press
03 February 2020

Plant physiology; Soil science, sedimentology; Conservation of the environment; Agricultural science

Magnitude and quality of life as well as sustainable human progress inescapably depend on the state of our environment. The environment, in essence, is a common resource of all the living organisms in the biosphere as well as a vivacious basis of the evolution of life on Earth. A sustainable future broods over a sustainable environment—an environment encompassing life-originating, life-supporting, and life-sustaining uniqueness. A deteriorating environment haplessly sets in appalling conditions leading to shrinkage of life and a halt in human progress. The current global environment scenario is extremely dismal. Environmental disruptions, largely owing to anthropogenic activities, are steadily leading to awful climate change. Horribly advancing toward mass extinction in the near or distant future and posing a threat to our Living Planet, the unabatedly ongoing climate change, in fact, is an unprecedented issue of human concern about life in the recorded human history.

How to get rid of the environmental mess and resolve environmental issues leading to climate change mitigation is the foremost challenge facing humanity in our times. There are several measures the whole world is resorting to. They are primarily focused on cutting down excessive carbon emissions by means of development of technological alternatives, for example, increasing mechanical efficiencies and ever-more dependence on clean-energy sources. These are of great importance, but there is yet a natural phenomenon that has been, and will unceasingly be, pivotal to maintain climate order of the Earth. For it to phenomenally boost, we need to explore deeper aspects of environmental science. It is the environmental plant physiology that links us with deeper roots of life.

Environmental Plant Physiology: Botanical Strategies for a Climate-Smart Planet attempts to assimilate a relatively new subject that helps us understand the very phenomenon of life that persists in the planet’s environment and depends on, and is influenced by, a specific set of operating environmental factors. It is the subject that helps us understand adaptation mechanisms within a variety of habitats as well as the implications of the alterations of environmental factors on the inhabiting organisms, their populations, and communities. Further, this book can also be of vital importance for policy makers and organizations dealing with climate-related issues and committed to the cause of the earth. This book can be instrumental in formulating strategies that can lead us to a climate-smart planet.

Features:

• Provides ecological basis of environmental plant physiology

• Discusses energy, nutrient, water, temperature, allelochemical, and altitude relations of plants

• Reviews stress physiology of plants and plants’ adaptations to the changing climate

• Examines climate-change effects on plant physiology

• Elucidates evolving botanical strategies for a climate-smart planet

By: Vir Singh
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367030421
ISBN 10: 036703042X
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 03 February 2020
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Vir Singh is Professor of Environmental Science at GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. He has more than three decades' experience of teaching and research in forest ecology, environmental science, agroecology, animal sciences, environmental physiology, and natural resources management. Holding triple Masters (M.Sc. Botany, M.Sc. Ag. Animal Nutrition, and M.A. Sociology) and dual Ph.D. degrees (Botany with specialization in Ecology, and Animal Sciences), he has been educated and trained in many universities and institutes: Meerut University (now Chaudhary Charan Singh University), GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, HNB Garhwal University, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), MP Bhoj (O) University, and Galilee College in Israel (now GIMI, Israel). He has been a Research Fellow at International Centre for Integrated Mountain development (ICIMOD) based in Kathmandu and participated in courses in Geoinformatics at Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) based in Jena, Germany. He has worked on many projects in collaboration with international institutes including ICIMOD, ILRI and the INNO-ASIA project sponsored by the German Federal Ministry BMBF. He has conducted several national and international conferences, symposia and workshops. He has published several books, including recently in limelight, Fertilizing the Universe, and more than 200 research articles and book chapters. Prof. Vir Singh is also a Climate Reality Leader committed to creating awareness about the on-going climate change and its long-term implications on every walk of life and is also formulating programmes and projects for climate change mitigation.

Reviews for Environmental Plant Physiology: Botanical Strategies for a Climate Smart Planet

Singh (Environmental Science, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, India) has written a nine-chapter text summarizing the current and potential/future effects of climate change on plant environmental physiology. He presents a concise, highly distilled summary of major ideas and research for each chapter's topics ( Environment and Ecosystems: Physiological Basis of Ecology, Energy Relations, Nutrient Relations, Water Relations, Temperature Relations, Allelochemical Relations, High-Altitude Physiology, Stress Physiology, and Physiological Effects of Climate Change ). The treatment does not concern only wild plants but also looks at agriculture, forestry, and general animal science topics. Each chapter concludes with a brief list of traditional resources for further reading, mostly summary articles and/or textbooks, including a section listing pertinent online resources (websites of reliable organizations and/or government organs). Each chapter contains various summarizing figures or tables, either of the author's own creation or based on ones found in the established literature, representing the relationships between plant growth and environmental factors. These characteristics together make the volume a summary reference for experienced scientists and not necessarily suitable for beginners. --S. T. Meiers, emerita, Western Illinois University, Choice, 2020 Vol. 58 No. 4