Includes bibliographical references and index.

Interactive effects of water stress and elevated CO₂ on growth, photosynthesis, and water use efficiency / Theodore C. Hsiao and Robert B. Jackson -- Increasing atmospheric CO₂ concentration, water use, and water stress: scaling up from the plant to the landscape / Jeffrey S. Amthor -- Temperature: cellular to whole-plant and population responses / R.M.M. Crawford and D.W. Wolfe -- Effects of elevated CO₂ and temperature stress on ecosystem processes / Stanley D. Smith, Dean N. Jordan, and Erik P. Hamerlynck -- Interactions between rising CO₂, soil salinity, and plant growth / Rana Munns, Grant R. Cramer, and Marilyn C. Ball -- Atmospheric CO₂ enrichment and enhanced solar ultraviolet-B radiation: gene to ecosystem responses / Jelte Rozema, Alan Teramura, and Martyn Caldwell -- Role of carbon dioxide in modifying the plant response to ozone / Andrea Polle and Eva J. Pell -- Response of plants to elevated atmospheric CO₂ : root growth, mineral nutrition, and soil carbon / Hugo H. Rogers [and others] -- Rhizosphere processes under elevated CO₂ / Weixin Cheng -- Ecosystem responses to rising atmospheric CO₂ : feedbacks through the nitrogen cycle / Bruce A. Hungate -- Implications of stress in low CO₂ atmospheres of the past: are today's plants too conservative for a high CO₂ world? / Rowan F. Sage and Sharon A. Cowling -- Scaling against environmental and biological variability: general principles and a case study / Yiqi Luo -- Nutrients: dynamics and limitations / Göran I. Ågren, Gaius R. Shaver, and Edward B. Rastetter -- Ecosystem modeling of the CO₂ response of forests on sites limited by nitrogen and water / Ross E. McMurtrie and Roderick C. Dewar -- Diverse controls on carbon storage under elevated CO₂: toward a synthesis / Christopher B. Field -- Interactive effects of carbon dioxide and environmental stress on plants and ecosystems: a synthesis / Yiqi Luo, Josep Canadell, and Harold A. Mooney.

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This book focuses on the interactive effects of environmental stresses with plant and ecosystem functions, especially with respect to changes in the abundance of carbon dioxide. The interaction of stresses with elevated carbon dioxide are presented from the cellular through whole plant ecosystem level. The book carefully considers not only the responses of the above-ground portion of the plant, but also emphasizes the critical role of below-ground (rhizosphere) components (e.g., roots, microbes, soil) in determining the nature and magnitude of these interactions.

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