Plants and climate change complexities and surprises

• Published in: Annals of botany Vol. 116; no. 6; pp. 849 - 864
• Main Authors: Parmesan, Camille, Hanley, Mick E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.11.2015
• Subjects: Biological Evolution; Carbon Dioxide - metabolism; Climate Change; Flowers - metabolism; Introduced Species; Phenotype; Plants - genetics; Plants - metabolism; Review; REVIEW: PART OF A SPECIAL ISSUE ON PLANTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE; Seedlings - physiology; Seeds - physiology; Climate change; range shifts; elevated CO2; plant functional groups; global change; phenology; assisted colonization; plasticity; evolution; plant functional traits; distributions; invasive species

Anthropogenic climate change (ACC) will influence all aspects of plant biology over coming decades. Many changes in wild species have already been well-documented as a result of increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations, warming climate and changing precipitation regimes. A wealth of available data h...