Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems: Current Challenges and Adaptation

Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems explains the causative factors of climate change related to agriculture, soil and plants, and discusses the relevant resulting mitigation process. Agricultural ecosystems include factors from the surrounding areas where agriculture experiences direct or indirect interaction with the plants, animals and microbes present. Changes in climatic conditions influence all the factors of agricultural ecosystems, which can potentially adversely affect their productivity. To fully understand the impact of climate change, attention must be focused on the unexplored causative agents and mitigating factors. This book summarizes the different aspects of vulnerability, adaptation and amelioration of climate change in respect to plants, crops, soil and microbes for the sustainability of the agricultural sector and, ultimately, food security for the future. It also focuses on the utilization of information technology for the sustainability of the agricultural sector along with the capacity and adaptability of agricultural societies under climate change. Covers the impact of climate change on agricultural ecosystems including vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation for sustainable agricultureFocuses on issues related to plant systems, agriculture and microbesExplores the effects of greenhouse gases on plant metabolites, soil respiration, and microbial biomass INDICE: 1. Impact of climate change on agriculture/Agroecosystem: Past, present and future2. Agrochemicals: Harmful and beneficial effects under climate changing scenarios3. Plants adaptation to climate change: An insight to secondary metabolism4. Impact of xenobiotics and heavy metals on Agriculture and climate change5. Climate change and soil dynamics: Effects on soil microbes and fertility of soil6. Impact of climate change on plants-microbe interaction under agro ecosystem7. Medicinal plants under climate change: Impacts on pharmaceutical properties of plants8. Air pollution: Role in climate change and its impact on crop plants9. Sustainable agricultural practices under climate changing scenarios10. Cyanobacteria and their role under elevated CO2 conditions11. Climatic resilient agriculture using plant growth promoting microrganisms12. Role of bioinformatics in sustainability of Agriculture/ Agroecosystem13. Developing adaptive capability of agricultural societies in the context of climate change.

• ISBN: 978-0-12-816483-9
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 520
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés