Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 June 2005
- ISBN 9780198567066
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 245x189x15 mm
- Weight 565 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables, line drawings, halftones and colour plates 0
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Short description:
Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in carbon storage and exchange. Many of the human-induced pressures these regions are facing, such as 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 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver Phillips have been at the forefront of global change research in the Tropics for decades and are eminently qualified to produce an overview of the current state of reasearch. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Contemporary atmospheric change in the tropics
Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions
Impacts of future CO2 increase, climate change and deforestation on tropical forests
Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes
Atmospheric change and ecosystem processes
Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests
Tropical forests and atmospheric change: a summary of ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses
Through enhanced tree dynamics, CO2 enrichment may cause tropical forests to lose carbon
The response by tropical forest ecosystems to drought
Observations of contemporary change in tropical forests
Ecological responses to El Niño-induced surface fires in central Brazilian Amazonia: management implications for flammable tropical forests
Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests: effects of global change?
Amazon tree turnover in the late twentieth century
Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots
Are concerted, widespread, directional changes occurring in the structure and dynamics of South American tropical forests?
Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates
The past and future of tropical forests
The longevity and resilience of the Amazon Rainforest
Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric CO2 changes since the Last Glacial Maximum
Modelling the past and future fate of the Amazonian Forest
Climate change and speciation in Neotropical seasonally dry forest plants
Synthesis
