The Productivity and Sustainability of Southern Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Environment (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mickler, Robert; Fox, Susan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The research presented here provides a sound scientific basis for management and policy decisions regarding the productivity and sustainability of forest ecosystems in the context of a rapidly changing global environment. It is the synthesis of 5 years of field and laboratory research on southern forests conducted by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service to provide scientific assessments to the US Global Change Research Program, and, as such, is invaluable for policy makers and land use managers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 892
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461221784
• Artikelnr.: 43986714

Autorenporträt

The health and productivity of forest ecosystems in the southern United States are currently limited by temperature, precipitation, and soil nutrition. In a changing global environment, these forest ecosystems face an unprecedented rate of change by additional stresses from air pollution and climatic change, including increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide, trace gases and atmospheric aerosols, and altered land use patterns. This volume focuses on the effects of global climate change across spatial and temporal scales in southern U.S. forest ecosystems.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: An Introduction to Southern Forests in a Changing Environment; Section 2: Global Change Impacts on Tree Physiology and Growth; Section 3: Modeling the Biophysical Effects of Global Change; Section 4: The Effects of Climate Change on Forest Soils; Section 5: Disturbance Interactions with Global Change; Section 6: Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Change