Climate Change Impacts on Plant Biomass Growth

<p>Contents</p><p>I.  Introduction</p><p>2. Climate Change: What is in the Name</p><p>2.1. Temporal Dimension</p><p>2.2. Spatial Dimension</p><p>2.3 Event Dimension</p><p>2.4. Umbrella Concept</p><p>3. The Greenhouse Effect</p><p>3.2. Impact of Greenhouse Gases</p><p>3.2.1 Carbon Dioxide (CO2)</p><p>3.2.2. Methane</p><p>3.2.3. Oxides of Nitrogen</p><p>3.2.4. Anthropocentric Source of N</p><p>3.3. Greenhouse Gases and the Ozone Layer</p><p>3.3.1. Reaction of Greenhouse Gases with O3</p><p>3.4. Perception of Greenhouse Effect</p><p>4. Effects of Climate Change on Vegetation</p><p>4.1. The Effect of Increasing CO2 on Vegetation</p><p>4.1.1. Aerial Fertilization</p><p>4.1.2. Physiological Processes Associated with Enriched CO2</p><p>4.1.3. Effect of Enriched CO2 on the Photosynthetic Process</p><p>4.1.4. Individual Plant Response to Photosynthetic Change</p><p>4.1.5. Allocation of Carbon to Shoot</p><p>4.1.6. Carbon Allocation to Roots</p><p>4.1.7. Other Responses</p><p>4.2. The Effect of Increasing CO2 on the Distribution of Organic Matter and Nitrogen Cycling</p><p>4.5. Interaction of CO2 with Other Elements</p><p>5: Role of Vegetation in Reducing CO2</p><p>5.1 The Vegetation Carbon Balance</p><p>5.2. Control Dynamics of C by N</p><p>5.3. Growth Enhancement and Reduction of Carbon</p><p>5.4. Human Impact on C Dynamics</p><p>6: The Carbon Balance in the Managed Forest</p><p>6.1. Role of Forest Trees and Their Products</p><p>6.1.1. The Forest Floor</p><p>6.1.2. The Tree C Pool</p><p>6.1.3. Impact of Harvesting on Carbon Pool</p><p>6.1.4. Carbon in Wood Products</p><p>6.2 The Soil Carbon Cycle</p><p>6.2.1 Litter and Slash Input</p><p>6.2.2. Decomposition</p><p>7. Short and Long Term Resolution</p><p>7.1 Aspects of Source-Sink Activity</p><p>7.2 Aspects of Plant Growth</p><p>7.3. Climate Change Induced Variation</p><p>7.4. Aspects of Socio-Economic Conditions</p><p>7.5. Aspects of Management Change</p><p>7.5.1. Plant Selection and Breeding</p><p>7.5.2. Cultural Practice</p><p>8. Environmental Regulations on Activities Associated with Enhanced Co2 Concentrations</p><p>8.2. Precipitation/Water Availability</p><p>8.3. Effects of Elevation and Aspect</p><p>8.4. Effects of Drought Conditions</p><p>8.5. Effects of Canopy Cover</p><p>8.6. Effects of Forest</p><p>8.7. Ecological Issues</p><p>8.8. Environmental Conditions and Growth Partitioning</p><p>8.9. Derived Effects of CO2</p><p>8.9.1. Nutrient Availability</p><p>8.9.2. Carbon Sequestering</p><p>8.9.3. Plant Animal Interaction</p><p>8.9.4. Plant-Plant Competition</p><p>9. Perspective of Climate Change in Bangladesh</p><p>9.1. Emission Problems under the Socio-economic Situation of Bangladesh</p><p>9.2. Outline of Climate Change Related Problems of Bangladesh</p>10. Conclusions