Ernst-Detlef Schulze

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Jena, Germany

dschulze@bgc-jena.mpg.de

Erwin Beck

University of Bayreuth

Department of Plant Physiology

Bayreuth, Germany

erwin.beck@uni-bayreuth.de

Nina Buchmann

ETH Zurich

Institute of Agricultural Science

Zurich, Switzerland

nina.buchmann@usys.ethz.ch

Stephan Clemens

University of Bayreuth

Department of Plant Physiology

Bayreuth, Germany

Klaus Müller-Hohenstein

University of Bayreuth

Department of Biogeography

Bayreuth, Germany

kumueho@t-online.de

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

University of Freiburg

Institute of Biology II

Freiburg, Germany

michael.scherer@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

Introduction.- General Themes of Molecular Stress Physiology.- Light.- Temperature.- Oxygen Deficiency.- Water Deficiency (Drought).- Adverse Soil Mineral Availability.- Biotic Stress.- Thermal Balance of Plants and Plant Communities.- Water Relations.- Nutrient Relations.- Carbon Relations.- Ecosystem Characteristics.- Approaches to Study Terrestrial Ecosystems.- Approaches to Model Processes at the Ecosystem Level.- Biogeochemical Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems.- Development of Plant Communities in Time.- Spatial Distribution of Plants and Plant Communities.- Interactions between Plants, Plant Communities and the Abiotic and Biotic Environment.- Biodiversity.- Global Biogeochemical Cycles.- Dynamic Global Vegetation Models.- Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems.