Weed Biology and Climate Change

Lewis H. Ziska is a Plant Physiologist in the Crop Systems and Global Change Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture. Jeffrey S. Dukes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources and in the Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University.

“A must read for all scholars interested in plant and weed ecology.”  (Experimental Agriculture, 2012)"The text is fully indexed, includes extensive references, and is well illustrated with numerous examples from the primary literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 August 2011)

• Preface ixChapter 1 A Brief History of Weeds and Their Impact 1Chapter 2 Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming: The “Green” in the Greenhouse Effect 23Chapter 3 An Evaluation of the Impact of Rising Carbon Dioxide and Climatic Change on Weed Biology: From the Cell to the Plant 39Chapter 4 An Evaluation of the Impact of Rising Carbon Dioxide and Climatic Change on Weed Biology: Competition to Community Composition 61Chapter 5 Weeds on the Farm: Assessing the Role of Climate Change and CO2 on Agricultural Productivity 85Chapter 6 Invasive Plants and Climate Change in Natural Ecosystems 107Chapter 7 Weeds, CO2, Climate, and Health 127Chapter 8 Weed Management: Herbicides 143Chapter 9 Weed Management: The Rest of the Story 163Chapter 10 Benefits from Weeds 181Chapter 11 Weeds in a Time of Climate 199Appendix 219Index 227