Overview
- A Highly relevant interdisciplinary topic: tree-atmosphere interactions, focusing on the recent advancements in understanding the controls on plant-driven volatile organic compound emission fluxes and on the quantitative prediction of these fluxes by models
- Unique title in the market
- Contributions from leading experts in the field
- This volume addresses a wide audience including graduate students, teachers, scientists and professionals dealing with forestry, terrestrial ecology, plant biology, environmental science and biosphere-atmosphere interactions
Part of the book series: Tree Physiology (TREE, volume 5)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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About this book
Plant-driven volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions play a major role in atmospheric chemistry, including ozone and photochemical smog formation in the troposphere, and they extend the atmospheric lifetime of the key greenhouse gas, methane. Furthermore, condensation of photo-oxidation products of BVOCs leads to formation of secondary organic aerosols with profound implications for the earth's solar radiation budget and climate. Trees represent the plant life form that most contributes to BVOC emissions, which gives global forests a unique role in regulating atmospheric chemistry.
Written by leading experts in the field, the focus is on recent advancements in understanding the controls on plant-driven BVOC emissions, including efforts to quantitatively predict emissions using computer models, particularly on elicitation of emissions under biotic and abiotic stresses, molecular mechanisms of volatile synthesis and emission and the role of emissions in plant stress tolerance.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biology, Controls and Models of Tree Volatile Organic Compound Emissions
Editors: Ülo Niinemets, Russell K. Monson
Series Title: Tree Physiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6606-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6605-1Published: 19 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8384-2Published: 06 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6606-8Published: 08 July 2013
Series ISSN: 1568-2544
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 547
Topics: Tree Biology, Plant Sciences, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Plant Physiology, Environmental Chemistry, Earth System Sciences
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology