Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-23908-6 (ISBN)
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Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change will be the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis onto ecological processes e.g. how diversity is structured by climate and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of this book that emerges progressively is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. While numerous books have appeared dealing with forest fragmentation and conservation, none have explicitly explored the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, coupled with anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging.
PhD Mark B. Bush, Professor at the Biology Department of Florida Institute of Technology (FIT).
1. Cretaceous and Tertiary climate change and the past distribution of megathermal rain forest.- 2. Andean Montane forests and climate change.- 3. Climate change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin.- 4. The Quaternary history of far eastern rainforests.- 5. Rain Forest responses to past climatic changes in Tropical Africa.- 6. Tropical environment dynamics: a modelling perspective.- 7. Prehistoric human occupation and impacts on Neotropical forest landscapes during the Late Pleistocene and Early/Middle Holocene.- 8. Ultraviolet insolation and the Tropical Rain Forest: altitudinal variations, Quaternary and recent change, extinctions and biodiversity.- 9. Climate change and hydrological models of the wet tropics.- 10. Plant species diversity in Amazonian Forests.- 11. Nutrient cycling and climate change in tropical forests.- 12. The response of South American tropical rain forests to contemporary atmospheric change.- 13. Ecophysiological response of lowland tropical plants to Pleistocene climate.- 14.Modelling future effects of climate change on tropical forests.- 15. Conservation, climate change and tropical forests.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.9.2006 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 970 g |
| Einbandart | gebunden |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften |
| Schlagworte | biodiversity • forest ecology • Geoecology • global warming • Klimawandel • Klimawandel / Klimaveränderung • Logging • nature conservation • Regenwald • Regenwald / Dschungel |
| ISBN-10 | 3-540-23908-1 / 3540239081 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-540-23908-6 / 9783540239086 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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