Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 565 g
Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 565 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-856706-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in hydrology, carbon storage and exchange. Many of the human-induced pressures these regions are facing, e.g. fragmentation and deforestation, have been widely reported and well documented. However, there have been surprisingly few efforts to synthesize cutting-edge science in the area of tropical forest interaction with atmospheric change. At a time when our global atmosphere is undergoing a period of rapid change, both in terms of climate and in the cycling of essential elements such as carbon and nitrogen, a thorough and up-to-date analysis is now timely. This research level text, suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in plant ecology, tropical forestry, climate change science, and conservation biology, explores the vigorous contemporary debate as to how rapidly tropical forests may be affected by atmospheric change, and what this may mean for their future.
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Fachgebiete
- Geowissenschaften Geologie GIS, Geoinformatik
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Abfall- und Bodenschutzrecht
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Forstwirtschaft
- Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Technologie der Holzverarbeitung
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenökologie
- Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Forstwirtschaft, Forstwissenschaft
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
- Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Forstbotanik, Baumbiologie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung
- Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
Weitere Infos & Material
- Foreword
- Contemporary atmospheric change in the tropics
- 1: Yadvinder Malhi and James Wright: Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions
- 2: Wolfgang Cramer, Alberte Bondeau, Sibyll Schaphoff, Wolfgang Lucht, Ben Smith and Stephen Sitch: Impacts of future CO2 increase, climate change and deforestation on tropical forests
- 3: William F. Laurance: Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes
- Atmospheric change and ecosystem processes
- 4: Simon L. Lewis, Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver L. Phillips: Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests
- 5: Jeffrey Q. Chambers and Whendee L. Silver: Tropical forests and atmospheric change: a summary of ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses
- 6: Christian Körner: Through enhanced tree dynamics, CO2 enrichment may cause tropical forests to lose carbon
- 7: Patrick Meir and John Grace: The response by tropical forest ecosystems to drought
- Observations of contemporary change in tropical forests
- 8: Jos Barlow and Carlos A. Peres: Ecological responses to El Niño-induced surface fires in central Brazilian Amazonia: management implications for flammable tropical forests
- 9: William F. Laurance, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Susan G. Laurance, Richard Condit, Henrique E. M. Nascimento, Ana Andrade, Christopher W. Dick, Ana C. Sanchez-Thorin, Thomas E. Lovejoy, José E. L. S. Ribeiro: Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests: effects of global change?
- 10: O. Phillips, T. Baker, L. Arroyo, N. Higuchi, T. Killeen, W.F. Laurance, S.L. Lewis, J. Lloyd, Y. Malhi, A. Monteagudo, D. Neill, P. Núñez Vargas, N. Silva, J. Terborgh, R. Vásquez Martínez, M. Alexiades, S. Almeida, S. Brown, J. Chave, J.A. Comiskey, C.I. Czimczik, A. Di Fiore, T. Erwin, C. Kuebler, S.G. Laurance, H.E.M. Nascimento, J. Olivier, W. Palacios, S. Patiño, N. Pitman, C.A. Quesada, M. Saldias, A. Torres Lezama and B. Vinceti: Amazon tree turnover in the late twentieth century
- 11: Timothy R. Baker, Oliver L. Phillips, Yadvinder Malhi, Samuel Almeida, Luzmila Arroyo, Anthony Di Fiore, Terry Erwin, Niro Higuchi, Timothy J. Killeen, Susan G. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Simon L. Lewis, Abel Monteagudo, David A. Neill, Percy Núnez Vargas, Nigel C.A. Pitman, J. Natalino M. Silva, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez: Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots
- 12: S. L. Lewis, O. L. Phillips, T. R. Baker, J. Lloyd, Y. Malhi, S. Almeida, N. Higuchi, W. F. Laurance, D. A. Neill, J. N. M. Silva, J. Terborgh, A. Torres Lezama, R. Vásquez Martínez, S. Brown, J. Chave, C. Kuebler, P. Núñez Vargas and B. Vinceti: Are concerted, widespread, directional changes occurring in the structure and dynamics of South American tropical forests?
- 13: Jerome Chave, Guillem Chust, Richard Condit, Salomon Aguilar, Andres Hernandez, Suzanne Lao, Rolando Perez: Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates
- The past and future of tropical forests
- 14: Mark Maslin: The longevity and resilience of the Amazon Rainforest
- 15: Francis E. Mayle and Mark B. Bush: Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric CO2 changes since the Last Glacial Maximum
- 16: Sharon A. Cowling, Richard A. Betts, Peter M. Cox, Virginia J. Ettwein, Chris D. Jones, Mark A. Maslin and Steven A. Spall: Modelling the past and future fate of the Amazonian Forest
- 17: R. Toby Pennington, Matt Lavin, Darién E. Prado, Colin A. Pendry, Susan K. Pell: Climate change and speciation in Neotropical seasonally dry forest plants
- Synthesis
