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Main Title Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Bush, Mark B.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Flenley, John R.
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
Year Published 2007
ISBN 9783540488422
Subjects Life sciences ; Endangered ecosystems ; Forests and forestry ; Climatic changes ; Ecology
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48842-2
Collation XXXII, 396p. online resource.
Notes Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes 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. The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet. "Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change" will be the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis onto ecological processes e.g. how diversity is structured by climate and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of this book that emerges progressively is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. While numerous books have appeared dealing with forest fragmentation and conservation, none have explicitly explored the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, coupled with anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging.
Place Published Berlin, Heidelberg
Corporate Au Added Ent SpringerLink (Online service)
Title Ser Add Ent Springer Praxis Books
Host Item Entry Springer eBooks
PUB Date Free Form 2007
Series Title Untraced Springer Praxis Books
BIB Level m
Medium computer
Content text
Carrier online resource
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
OCLC Time Stamp 20131219124443
Language eng
Origin SPRINGER
Type EBOOK
OCLC Rec Leader 03792nam a22004695i 45