Plant responses to air pollution and global change

. Plant Responses to Air Pollution -- Metabolism of atmospheric sulfur gases in onion -- Impact of atmospheric NH³ deposition on plant growth and functioning -- a case study with Brassica oleracea L -- How sensitive are forest trees to ozone? -- New research on an old issue -- Northern conditions enhance the susceptibility of birch (Betula pendula Roth) to oxidative stress caused by ozone -- Physiological responses of trees to air pollutants at high elevation sites -- Complex assessment of forest condition under air pollution impacts -- Evaluation of the ozone-related risk for Austrian forests -- Causes of differences in response of plant species to nitrogen supply and the ecological consequences -- II. Plant Responses to Climate Change -- Long-term effects of elevated CO₂ on sour orange trees -- Plant responses to climate change: impacts and adaptation -- Effects of elevated carbon dioxide concentration on wood structure and formation in trees -- III. Plant Responses to Combination of Air Pollution and Climate Change -- Carbon dioxide and ozone affect needle nitrogen and abscission in Pinus ponderosa -- Effects of air pollution and climate change on forests of the Tatra Mountains, Central Europe -- IV. Genetics and Molecular Biology for Functioning Improvement -- MAPK signalling and plant cell survival in response to oxidative environmental stress -- Expression of cyanobacterial ictB in higher plants enhanced photosynthesis and growth -- Improvement of photosynthesis in higher plants -- Modification of CO₂ fixation of photosynthetic prokaryote -- Specificity of diatom Rubisco -- Regulation of CO₂ fixation in non-sulfur purple photosynthetic bacteria -- V. Experimental Ecosystem and Climate Change Research -- Experimental ecosystem and climate change research in controlled environments : lessons from the Biosphere 2 Laboratory 1996-2003 -- Importance of air movement for promoting gas and heat exchanges between plants and atmosphere under controlled environments -- Pros and cons of CO₂ springs as experimental sites -- VI. Global Carbon Cycles in Ecosystem and Assessment of Climate Change Impacts -- Carbon dynamics in response to climate and disturbance: Recent progress from multi-scale measurements and modeling in AmeriFlux -- Synthetic analysis of the CO₂ fluxes at various forests in East Asia -- 3-D remote sensing of woody canopy height and carbon stocks by helicopter-borne scanning lidar -- Assessments of climate change impacts on the terrestrial ecosystem in Japan using the Bio-Geographical and GeoChemical (BGGC) Model -- VII. Air Pollution and Global Change in Asia -- Establishing critical levels of air pollutants for protecting East Asian vegetation -- A challenge -- Major activities of acid deposition monitoring network in East Asia (EANET) and related studies -- Land degradation and blown-sand disaster in China -- Impact of meteorological fields and surface conditions on Asian dust -- A case study on combating desertification at a small watershed in the hills-gully area of loess plateau, China -- A recipe for sustainable agriculture in.