Description
Book SynopsisTemperature adaptation is a much neglected field in the minds of climate change researchers and policy makers. However, increasing fluctuations in temperature mean that the risk of cold and heat stress will pose an increasing threat to both wild and cultivated plants and animals, with frost injury expected to cause devastating damage to crops on an increasingly large scale. Thus, improving shared knowledge of the biological mechanisms of temperature adaptation in plants and animals will help prevent major losses of crops and genetic resources in the future.
Table of Contents1: Introduction: Nature at Risk 2: Temperature Perception and Signal Transduction - Mechanisms across Multiple Organisms 3: Microorganisms and Plants: a Photosynthetic Perspective 4: Insects 5: Temperature Adaptation in Changing Climate: Marine Fish and Invertebrates 6: Fish: Fresh Water Ecosystems 7: Strategies of Molecular Adaptation to Climate Change: the Challenges for Amphibians and Reptiles 8: The Relationship between Climate Warming and Hibernation in Mammals 9: On Thin Ice: Marine Mammals and Climate Change 10: Climate Change and Plant Diseases 11: Trees and Boreal Forests 12: The Paradoxical Increase in Freezing Injury in a Warming Climate: Frost as a Driver of Change in Cold Climate Vegetation 13: Annual Field Crops 14: Perennial Field Crops 15: The Potential Impact of Climate Change on Temperate Zone Woody Perennial Crops 16: Temperature Adaptation Across Organisms
