TY - BOOK ID - 7691455 TI - Climate change and crops PY - 2009 SN - 364209998X 3540882456 9786612362330 128236233X 3540882464 PB - Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Climatic changes. KW - Crop yields. KW - Crops and climate. KW - Food supply -- Environmental aspects. KW - Food supply KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Climate change KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic changes KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Food control KW - Crops KW - Field crops KW - Yields, Crop KW - Agricultural climatology KW - Agriculture KW - Agroclimatology KW - Climate and crops KW - Crop micrometeorology KW - Plant biometeorology KW - Environmental aspects KW - Yields KW - Climatic factors KW - Environment. KW - Climate change. KW - Climate Change. KW - Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. KW - Produce trade KW - Food security KW - Single cell proteins KW - Agricultural productivity KW - Soil productivity KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Agricultural ecology KW - Bioclimatology KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change science KW - Global environmental change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7691455 AB - Climate change is directly linked to the human activities, according to the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC (2007). In last two decades of 20th Century, accelerated anthropogenic activities pushed up the atmospheric abundance of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, CH4, and N2O, alarmingly which enhanced the radiative forcing of the Earth’s surface and thus perturbed its heat radiation balance. As a consequence, atmospheric characteristics, such as temperature, rainfall pattern, levels of CO2 and O3 have changed significantly, affecting the farm productivity. Although rising level of CO2 may have fertilizing effect on C3 crops, but concomitant rise in atmospheric temperature, O3 level and extreme weather conditions can not only nullify the fertilizing effect of CO2, but also drastically reduce the crop production, threatening food security to burgeoning world population. Agricultural crops are not only victim of climate variability and extreme whether conditions, but also serve as a potential source of CH4 and N2O. Therefore, in changed scenario, Kyoto Protocol (1997) has sought all signatory developed nations to cut down their emission levels as per their differential commitments to UNFCCC and developing nations to invest in less carbon emission projects to avert the process of global warming process. In this context, the present edition, which compiles latest findings of studies carried out by the scientists on climate change and crops around the world, serves as a ready reckoner to crop scientists, atmospheric scientists, ecologists, environmentalists, research scholars and post- graduate students to update their knowledge and understanding on this issue. ER -