Tropical forests & global atmospheric change /

This text 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Malhi, Y. (Yadvinder), Phillips, Oliver
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:Oxford biology.
Temas:
Climatic changes > Tropics.
Forest ecology > Tropics.
Forest microclimatology > Tropics.
Biodiversity > Climatic factors > Tropics.
Climat > Changements > Régions tropicales.
Écologie forestière > Régions tropicales.
Microclimatologie des forêts > Régions tropicales.
Biodiversité > Facteurs climatiques > Régions tropicales.
NATURE > Weather.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
Biodiversity > Climatic factors
Climatic changes
Forest ecology
Forest microclimatology
Tropischer Regenwald
Klimaänderung
Tropics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I. Contemporary atmospheric change in the tropics. Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in the climate of tropical forest regions / Yadvinder Malhi and James Wright
  • Twenty-first century atmospheric change and deforestation: potential impacts on tropical forests / Wolfgang Cramer
  • Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes / William F. Laurance. PART II. Atmospheric change and ecosystem processes. Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests / Simon L. Lewis
  • Ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses to atmospheric change / Jeffrey Q. Chambers and Whendee L. Silver
  • Tropical forests dynamics in response to a Co2-rich atmosphere / Christian Korner
  • The effects of drought on tropical forest ecosystems / Patrick Meir and John Grace. PART III. Observations of contemporary change in tropical forests. Ecological responses of Amazonian forests to El Nino-induced surface fires / Jos Barlow and Carlos A. Peres
  • Late twentieth-century trends in tree-community composition in an Amazonian forest / William F. Laurance, Alexandre A. Oliveira
  • Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in Amazon tree turnover / Oliver Phillips, Timothy R. Baker, Luzmila Arroyo
  • Late twentieth-century trends in the biomass of Amazonian forest plots / Timothy R. Baker, Oliver L. Phillips, Yadvinder Malhi, Samuel Almeida
  • Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of South American forests / Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips, Timothy R. Baker
  • Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates / Jerome Chave, Guillem Chust. PART IV. The past and future of tropical forests. The longevity and resilience of the Amazon rainforest / Mark Maslin
  • Amazonian ecosystems and atmospheric change since the last glacian maximum / Francis E. Mayle and Mark B. Bush
  • Modelling the past and future fate of the Amazonian forest / Sharon A. Cowling, Richard A. Betts
  • Climate.
  • change and speciation in neotropical seasonally dry forest plants / R. Toby Pennington, Matt Lavin
  • The prospects for tropical forests in the twenty-first-century atmosphere / Oliver L. Phillips and Yadvinder Malhi.

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