Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation

In the present scenario, stresses induced due to global environmental change have indeed become a focal point of researches and study programmes worldwide. Stress caused to plant life has an important consequence to both vegetation as such and all other global cycles which sustain this "living earth". This volume elucidates the plant-pollutant relationship in a manner that defines not only the drastic effects of pollutants on plants but highlights areas such as phytoindication, phytoremediation and stress- tolerant bioaesthetic development, thus concentrating more on plant than pollutant. The book should help the reader understand the magnitude of environmental stress in the coming years and may play a formative role in defining future research and policy areas along with providing impetus to development of newer eco-technologies. The book shall interest both students and researchers of environmental sciences, ecology, forestry and related disciplines, as well as persons and organizations engaged in environmental management and eco-conservation.