Front Cover -- Plant Regeneration from Seeds -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Background -- Seed dormancy/germination and seedling survival -- Seed production and quality -- Dormancy break -- Temperature requirements for germination -- Shifts in timing of germination -- Seedling survival and drought stress -- Consequences of global warming on species, populations, and communities -- Extinction -- Migration -- Transgenerational and phenotypic plasticity and adaptation -- Changes in community composition

Interactions between fire, seed banks, and invasive species -- Special concerns about seagrasses, species with desiccation-sensitive seeds, and annual food crops -- Seagrasses -- Species with recalcitrant seeds -- Annual crops -- Aims of this book -- References -- Further reading -- I. Biogeography -- 1 Effect of climate change on plant regeneration from seeds in the arctic and alpine biome -- Introduction -- Climate warming in the arctic-alpine life zones -- Effects of climate warming on arctic-alpine plants -- Climate warming and plant regeneration from seeds in alpine-arctic environments

Seed production and seed mass -- Seed dispersal in time and space -- Seed dormancy and germination -- Seedling emergence and establishment -- Conclusions and future research -- References -- Further reading -- 2 Effects of climate change on regeneration of plants from seeds in boreal, subarctic, and subalpine regions -- The boreal ecosystem -- Recruitment from seeds in the boreal zone -- Predicted climate change and its impact on the boreal zone -- Sampling and characterizing the knowledge base -- Seed production -- Seed dormancy and germination -- Seedling survival and growth

Long-term consequences of climate change on seedling recruitment -- Future research -- References -- 3 Effects of climate change on plant regeneration from seeds in the cold deserts of Central Asia -- Introduction -- Climate change in cold deserts of Central Asia -- Plant life history traits -- Seed dormancy/germination -- Seedling survival and growth -- Plant growth, development, biomass accumulation/allocation, and seed production -- Phenology -- Plant morphological characters -- Dry mass accumulation and allocation -- Number of seeds produced -- Importance of heterodiaspory

Vegetation and community dynamics -- Future research needs -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Plant regeneration by seeds in hot deserts -- Introduction -- Climate change in deserts -- Effects of increasing temperature -- Increasing temperature effects on seed survival -- Increasing temperature effects on dormancy and seed banks -- Increasing temperature effects on germination -- Effects of decreasing precipitation -- Decreasing precipitation effects on dormancy and seed banks -- Decreasing precipitation effects on germination