This chapter is aimed at describing the relationship between individual rights and climate change agenda in the Czech Republic. Firstly, the authors provide a brief description of the Czech framework policy for climate change adaptation and specific acts dealing with the climate change. After that, the means of judicial protection in climate change disputes are analysed, with a particular emphasis on the role of administraitve courts. For better understanding, the authors present the most significant decisions of the Czech courts. They conclude that the courts may provide relatively effective protection against both public and private actors. however, climate change is still a new topic with which the applicants have not yet learned to work. In some cases, which are primarily concerned with other issues such as air pollution, climate change serves more as a supporting than a stand-alone argument. This is not likely to change any time soon, because the country is not affected by climate change to the degree it would be forced to act and immediate action would be deemed necessary. Moreover, the judicial review of the state policies is not allowed, even though at the governmental level, short-term economic goals are clearly preferred to the environmental agenda., Vojtěch Vomáčka, Ilona Jančářová., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
Forests are an important factor to control outflows of water and also partly prevent dangerous floods. In November 1927 two small representative basins with a great difference of percentages of forest cover were set up in the Czechoslovakia to measure precipitations and ouflows during 30 years with the following forest renewal. In 1953 two small fully forested experimental basins were set up with the concept to prove the increase of water resources by forest management. After a 12 year-long calibration period the accelerated forest renewal started. Both experimental basins were better accessed by forest roads. Analyses of data fluently recorded till now show that the relationship of precipitations and runoffs depends more on natural impulses than on management methods of forests. The great scatter of climatic impulses overwhelms the consequences of methods of forest management in both basins. An important factor of outflows of water is the capacity of water retention in forest soils (around 50 mm in this area). Flood and erosion control functions of the forests become to be evident but only in a limited way. The intensity of erosion in experimental basins is effectively dampened by woods and plants. and Lesy jsou důležitým faktorem při sledování odtoků vody a částečnou prevencí proti nebezpečným povodním. V listopadu 1927 byla započata třicetiletá měření srážek a odtoků ve dvou representativních povodích s velkým rozdílem v pokrytí lesem, s následujícími lesnickými obnovami. V roce 1953 se započalo měřit ve dvou malých, plně lesnatých experimentálních povodích s důvodem ověřit přibývání vody při lesnickém hospodaření. Po dvanáctileté kalibrační době začala zrychlená lesnická obnova. Obě experimentální povodí byla lépe zpřístupněna lesními cestami. Rozbor plynule zaznamenaných dat až do teď ukazuje, že vztah srážek a odtoků je více závislý na přírodních podnětech než na metodách hospodaření. Velký rozptyl klimatických prvků překonává důsledek hospodaření v obou povodích. Důležitým faktorem odtoků vody je kapacita vodní retence lesních půd (v těchto podmínkách asi 50 mm). Protipovodňové a protierozní funkce lesů jsou evidentní, ale omezené. Intenzita eroze v experimentálních povodích je efektivně tlumena stromy a rostlinami.
Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Jingdong 8) was exposed to short-term high ozone treatment after anthesis and then was either well irrigated with soil water content (SWC) of 80-85 % (O3+W) or drought treated (SWC 35-40 %, O3+D). Short-term ozone exposure significantly decreased irradiance-saturated net photosynthetic rate (PN) of winter wheat. Under good SWC, PN of the O3-treated plant was similar to that of control on 2 d after O3-exposure (6 DAA), but decreased significantly after 13 DAA, indicating that O3 exposure accelerated leaf senescence. Meanwhile, green flag leaf area was reduced faster than that of control. As a result, grain yield of O3+W was significantly decreased. PN of O3+D was further notably decreased and green flag leaf area was reduced more than that in O3+W. Consequently, substantial yield loss of O3+D was observed compared to that of O3+W. Although PN was significantly positively correlated with stomatal conductance, it also had notable positive correlation with the maximum photochemical efficiency in the dark adapted leaves (Fv/Fm), electron transport rate (ETR), photochemical quenching (qP), as well as content of chlorophyll, suggesting that the depression of PN was mainly caused by non-stomatal limitation. Hence optimal soil water condition should be considered in order to reduce the yield loss caused by O3 pollution. and H. Xu ... [et al.].
In order to study the responses of winter wheat cultivars released in different years to short-term high O3 exposure, an old cultivar ('Nongda 311', released in 1960s) and a modern one ('Yannong 19', released in 1990s) were treated with an O3 exposure (145 ± 12 mm3 m-3, 4 h d-1 for 3 d) shortly after anthesis stage (> 50 % main stems blossomed). During the O3 exposure, light-saturated photosynthetic rate (PN) and stomatal conductance (gs) of both cultivars decreased considerably. Elevated O3 did not decrease dark-adapted maximum photochemical efficiency, but induced significant reduction in actual photochemical efficiency and thereby considerably increase in non-photochemical quenching. PN, gs of the modern cultivar 'Yannong 19' decreased more than the older one 'Nongda 311', indicating the former exhibited higher sensitivity to O3 than the latter. After O3 exposure, PN, gs and chlorophyll (Chl) content in flag leaf decreased more quickly than control, indicating induction of faster premature leaf senescence. As a result, the short-term O3 exposure caused substantial yield loss, with larger reduction in 'Yannong 19' (-19.2 %) than in 'Nongda 311' (-8.4 %). Our results indicated that high O3 exposure at grain filling stage would have greater negative impacts on the high yielding modern cultivar relative to the old one with lower yield. and H. Xu ... [et al.].
In order to investigate the effect of chromosome doubling on ozone tolerance, we compared the physiological responses of a diploid honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica Thunb.) and its autotetraploid cultivar to elevated ozone (O3) exposure (70 ng g-1, 7 h d-1 for 31 d). Net photosynthetic rate (PN) of both cultivars were drastically (P<0.01) impaired by O3. Although there were significantly positive correlation between PN and stomatal conductance (gs) in both cultivars under each treatment, the decreased gs in O3 might be the result rather than the cause of decreased P N as indicated by stable or increasing the ratio of intercellular to ambient CO2 concentration(Ci/Ca). PN under saturating CO2 concentration
(PNsat) and carboxylation efficiency (CE) significantly decreased under O3 fumigation, which indicated the Calvin cycle was impaired. O3 also inhibited the maximum efficiency of photosystem II (PSII) photochemistry in the dark-adapted state (Fv/Fm), actual quantum yield of PSII photochemistry (ΦPSII), electron transport rate (ETR), photochemical quenching coefficient (qP), non-photochemical quenching (NPQ), the maximum in vivo rate of Rubisco carboxylation (Vcmax) and the maximal photosynthetic electron transport rate (Jmax) which demonstrated that the decrease in PN of the honeysuckle exposed to elevated O3 was probably not only due to impairment of Calvin cycle but also with respect to the light-harvesting and electron transport processes. Compared to the diploid, the tetraploid had higher relative loss in transpiration rate (E), (gs), (PNsat), Vcmax and Jmax. This result indicated that the Calvin cycle and electron transport in tetraploid was damaged more seriously than in diploid. A barely nonsignificant (P=0.086) interaction between O3 and cultivar on PN suggested a higher photosynthetic sensitivity of the tetraploid cultivar. and L. Zhang ... [et al.].
2-year-old seedlings of Metasequoia glyptostroboides were grown in open top chambers and exposed to four ozone concentrations [O3] (charcoal-filtered air, CF; 50, 100, and 200 mm3 m-3) for 25 d. Measurements of growth, leaf chlorophyll (Chl) content, and gas exchange parameters were made before and/or after O3 exposure. Leaf length, crown width, Chl a/b, net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, and transpiration rate were significantly reduced at 100 and 200 mm3(O3) m-3. A remarkable decrease in stomatal conductance also occurred at 50 mm3(O3) m-3. and Z.-Z. Feng ... [et al.].
Remote lasing from long distance towards Earth provides an efficient tool for remote sensing of the upper layers of the atmosphere. The basic element of such a system is a laser producing ultra-short pulses which are first negatively chirped before firing into the Earth‘s atmosphere. The atmospheric air imposes a positive chirp so at distances of several kilometres the laser pulse gets very short and has a very high intensity. At this point the air is ionized and the plasma filament forms a lasing medium., Hana Turčičová., and Obsahuje bibliografii