This domain focuses on studying and evaluating the effects of changing environmental factors (especially CO₂ concentration, temperature, moisture, solar radiation spectrum, and mineral nutrition) and their interactions on plant metabolism, physiology, and production processes. Research is conducted at various hierarchical levels (ecosystem, plant, tissue) using state-of-the-art analytical methods. These findings are essential for refining predictions of global change impacts on plants, terrestrial ecosystems, and selected animal communities, as well as for developing proposals for appropriate measures to mitigate these predominantly negative effects.
The domain’s main objectives are as follow:
a) clarification of adaptive and regulatory mechanisms associated with the effects of global climate change (especially with increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, rise in temperature, drought, and changes in the spectral composition of radiation) on physiology, metabolism, and production processes in plants and development of methods for early diagnosis of the effects of stress factors; and
b) innovation in the methodological approach consists in the description of changes in the metabolic profile of plants when exposed to environmental stresses and in finding functional connections between the metabolic profile of plants and their physiological and/or phenological properties; identification of the main metabolic pathways in plants involved in plants’ physiological adaptation and in the functional stability of ecosystems under the effects of global change.
Head
Ing. Karel Klem, PhD.
klem.k@czechglobe.cz
Address
Bělidla 986/4a, 603 00 Brno
