Relationship between Plant Isotope Composition and Environmental Changes
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2022) | Viewed by 3260
Special Issue Editor
Interests: carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen isotopes of plants and soils and their significance in climate and environmental studies; nitrogen and carbon cycles in terrestrial ecosystem using stable isotope technology; biomarkers in plants and soils and their significance in climate and environmental studies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the Industrial Revolution, the global environment has undergone tremendous changes, which have profoundly affected production and life. Global change has become a topic of most concern. How global changes affect terrestrial ecosystems and how vegetation or plants respond to global changes are important topics in global change research. Due to the rapid advancement of mass spectrometry technology and the advantages of high resolution of isotope technology, the role of plant isotopes in exploring the relationship between global environmental changes and the development of terrestrial ecosystems have become increasingly prominent. In recent decades, scientists have used plant isotopes to reveal changes in the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles of terrestrial ecosystems with the global environment and the ecological strategies that plants adopt to adapt to environmental changes. These studies have played a vital role in understanding the relationship between global change and terrestrial ecosystems. This Special issue aims to publish research papers on the influence of environmental factors, biological factors, and their interaction on plant stable isotopes and the use of plant isotopes to reveal responses of plants or terrestrial ecosystems to environmental changes, the coupling between carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, and water cycle, ecological and environmental physiology, growth, metabolism, morphogenesis, etc.
Prof. Dr. Guo'an Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plants
- isotopes
- environmental changes
- terrestrial ecosystems
- responses of plants or terrestrial ecosystems
- biogeochemistry
- isotopic geochemistry
- plant growth
- ecophysiology
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