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Some Physiological Plant Characteristics to Adapt to the Changing Climate in Indonesia

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Indonesia is a tropical country with rainy and drought seasons. Due to climate change, the country has experienced, in the last 30 years, increasing temperatures, a significant warming trend, changing rainfall patterns, and a reduced seasonality. The country has also experienced recurrent natural disasters such as drought and flood, high humidity, soil degradation, low pH, and decreasing soil organic matters. Climate change influences plants and adaptations due to the changes affecting the biophysical environment for species survival. Extreme weather like high rainfall and strong winds will be advantageous to some perennials but may be disastrous to most annual plants, such as the essential paddy rice agriculture. This chapter provides background information on these dynamics and suggests some physiological plant characteristics to adapt to climate change in Indonesian tropical agro-systems.

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Aziz, S.A. (2022). Some Physiological Plant Characteristics to Adapt to the Changing Climate in Indonesia. In: Behnassi, M., Gupta, H., Barjees Baig, M., Noorka, I.R. (eds) The Food Security, Biodiversity, and Climate Nexus. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12586-7_7

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