John Flenley, Mark Bush

Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. The book's goal is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. It aims to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783540488422
• Artikelnr.: 37368079

Inhaltsangabe

Cretaceous and Tertiary climate change and the past distribution of megathermal rainforests.- Andean montane forests and climate change.- Climate change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin.- The Quaternary history of far eastern rainforests.- Rainforest responses to past climatic tropical Africa.- Tropical environmental dynamics: A modeling perspective.- Prehistoric human occupation and impacts on Neotropical forest landscapes during the Late Pleistocene and Early/Middle Holocene.- Ultraviolet insolation and the tropical rainforest: altitudinal variations, Quaternary and recent change, extinctions, and biodiversity.- Climate change and hydrological modes of the wet tropics.- Plant species diversity in Amazonian forests.- Nutrient-cycling and climate change in tropical forests.- The response of South American tropical forests to contemporary atmospheric change.- Ecophysiological response of lowland plants to Pleistocene climate.- Modeling future effects of climate change on tropical forests.- Conservation, climate change, and tropical forests.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This ... book deals with responses of rain forests--in the Far East, Africa, and South America--to climatic change. ... The coverage is up-to-date, and each chapter has its own reference section. The figures and tables are well done and useful. ... Good subject index. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners." (K. L. Williams, CHOICE, Vol. 44 (9), May, 2007)