Ecological Genetics and Air Pollution

1 Introduction.- 2 Evolution in Relation to Environmental Stress.- 3 Ecological Genetics and Chemical Modifications of the Atmosphere.- 4 Atmospheric Pollution and Terrestrial Vegetation: Evidence of Changes, Linkages, and Significance to Selection Processes.- Commentary to Chapter 4 Evidence of Changes, Linkages, and Significance of Atmospheric Pollution to the Selection Process.- 5 Genetics of Response to Atmospheric Pollutants.- Commentary to Chapter 5 Genetics of the Resistance of Plants to Pollutants.- 6 Population Processes in Plants and the Evolution of Resistance to Gaseous Air Pollutants.- Commentary to Chapter 6 Population-Level Processes and Their Relevance to the Evolution in Plants Under Gaseous Air Pollutants.- 7 Consequences of Evolving Resistance to Air Pollutants.- Commentary to Chapter 7 Estimating Costs of Air Pollution Resistance.- 8 The Physiological Basis of Differential Plant Sensitivity to Changes in Atmospheric Quality.- Commentary to Chapter 8 Possible Genetic Effects of Continually Increasing Atmospheric CO2.- 9 Molecular Characterization of Plant Responses to Stress.- Commentary to Chapter 9 (A) Common Mechanisms of Intracellular Stress Induction by Atmospheric Pollutants and the Role of Genes and Mutation in Damage Alleviation.- Commentary to Chapter 9 (B) Genomic Stress, Genome Size, and Plant Adaptation.- 10 Population-Level Techniques for Measuring Microevolutionary Change in Response to Air Pollution.- Commentary to Chapter 10 Ecological Genetics of Plant Populations in Polluted Environments.- 11 Ecological Genetics and Changes in Atmospheric Chemistry: The Application of Knowledge.- Commentary to Chapter 11 (A) Plant Ecological Genetics and Air Pollution Stress: A Commentary on Implications for Natural Populations.- Commentary to Chapter 11 (B) Ecological Genetics and Changes in Atmospheric Chemistry: A Commentary on Application of Knowledge in Managed Forest Systems.- Species Index.