Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems

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Fully revised to include the latest scientific developments, Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems: Current Challenges and Adaptation, Second Edition continues to provide vital insights into the complex and dynamic relationship between climate, agriculture, soil and plants. Building on its proven value in guiding real-world application as well as inspiring further research, this new edition includes new insights and practices. Agricultural ecosystems are highly dependent on weather and climate for the production of necessary foods to sustain human life. Despite leading cutting-edge tools and technologies for developing improved varieties, genetically modified organisms, and irrigation systems, climate change is still a major constraint to agricultural productivity. It takes years to assess the impacts of climate change and vulnerability to it and to prepare proper countermeasures against it. Developing countermeasures drawn based on scientific diagnosis and assessment of the impacts of climate change on agriculture are essential in establishing the vision and administrative policies of future agriculture. Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems focuses on recent research and updates on interactions between agriculture, ecosystems, environment, and climate change bringing together ideas and innovations of the latest scientific findings on climate change and enriched by renowned researchers knowledge and experience in this field. It reflects the importance of acting now on climate change: to eliminate hunger; to enable the agriculture sectors to adapt to climate change.

Contenu

1. The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Ecosystem
   
   2. Flood Risk and Climate Change: Global and Regional Perspectives
   3. Elevated CO2 and Plant Growth: Mechanism and Approach
   4. Effects of Vapor Pressure Deficit on Plant Growth
   5. Sustainable Agricultural Practices Using Beneficial Fungi Under Changing Climate Scenario
   6. Climate Change and Soil Dynamics: Effects on Soil Microbes and Fertility of Soil
   7. Agrochemicals: Harmful and Beneficial Effects of Climate Changing Scenarios
   8. Climate Change and Secondary Metabolism in Plants: Resilience to Disruption
   9. Impact of Xenobiotics Under a Changing Climate Scenario
   10. Impact of Climate Change on Plant-Microbe Interactions under Agroecosystems
   11. An agroecological perspective for Climate-Smart Agriculture
   12. Climate Change: A Challenge for Postharvest Management, Food Loss, Food Quality
   13. Bioinformatics as a Tool to Counter Climate Change: Challenges and Prospecty
   14. Developing Adaptive Capability of Agricultural Societies in the Context of Climate Change
   15. Impact of Climate Change on Plant Productivity and Ecosystems Sustainability: Challenges and Solutions
   16. Using Rhizobacteria Under Changing Climate Scenario to Improve Agricultural Efficiency
   17. Endophytic Microbiome and their Role in Sustainable Agriculture under Changing Climatic Conditions
   18. Impact of Climate Change in Food Security and Plant Disease Management
   19. Extreme Events in Agriculture: Using Beneficial Soil Microorganisms to Overcome Impacts of Drought Events
   20. Multi-omics Approaches in Plant-microbe Interactions -- Potential for Sustainable Agriculture