Climate And Moisture Variability In A Tropical Forest
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Climate and Moisture Variability in a Tropical Forest
Author | : Brian Harold Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Allende meteorite |
ISBN | : |
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems
Author | : Adam Markham |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401727309 |
Climate change represents one of the most alarming long-term threats to ecosystems the world over. This new collection of papers provides, for the first time, an overview of the potentially serious impact that climate change may have on tropical forests. The authors, a multi-disciplinary group of leading experts in climatology, forestry, ecology and conservation biology, present a state-of-knowledge snapshot of how tropical forests are likely to react to the changes being wrought on our planet's atmosphere and climate. Tropical forests represent extraordinary harbours for biological diversity, and yet as deforestation and degradation continue apace, they are under greater pressure from human impacts than ever before. Climate change adds yet another threat to these valuable ecosystems, and this volume demonstrates just how significant a problem this may really be. The authors identify certain types of forest, including tropical montane cloud forest that may be particularly vulnerable. They also show the strong likelihood of global warming aggravating problems in already fragmented forest areas.
Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change
Author | : Mark B. Bush |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 3540239081 |
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.
Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change
Author | : Yadvinder Malhi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2005-06-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0198567057 |
Ecosystem processes, biogeochemical responses, drought contemporary change.
Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics
Author | : M. Bonell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 2009-12-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781139443845 |
Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics is a comprehensive review of the hydrological and physiological functioning of tropical rain forests, the environmental impacts of their disturbance and conversion to other land uses, and optimum strategies for managing them. The book brings together leading specialists in such diverse fields as tropical anthropology and human geography, environmental economics, climatology and meteorology, hydrology, geomorphology, plant and aquatic ecology, forestry and conservation agronomy. The editors have supplemented the individual contributions with invaluable overviews of the main sections and provide key pointers for future research. Specialists will find authenticated detail in chapters written by experts on a whole range of people-water-land use issues, managers and practitioners will learn more about the implications of ongoing and planned forest conversion, while scientists and students will appreciate a unique review of the literature.
Tropical Forest Ecology
Author | : Egbert Giles Leigh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Barro Colorado Island (Panama). |
ISBN | : 0195096037 |
How do tropical forests stay green with their abundance of herbivores? Why do tropical forests have such a diversity of plants and animals? And what role does mutualism play in the ecology of tropical forests?
Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change
Author | : Yadvinder Malhi |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005-06-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0191524271 |
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.
Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change
Author | : Mark Bush |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2011-08-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642053831 |
This updated and expanded second edition of a much lauded work provides a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. The authors also investigate past, present and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet. Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change, Second Edition, looks at how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis on to 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 the book is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. The authors, all foremost experts in their fields, explore the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, together 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. This second edition provides an updated text in this rapidly evolving field. The existing chapters are revised and updated and two entirely new chapters deal with Central America and the effect of fire on wet forest systems. In the first new chapter, the paleoclimate and ecological record from Central America (Lozano, Correa, Bush) is discussed, while the other deals with the impact of fire on tropical ecosystems. It is hoped that Jonathon Overpeck, who has been centrally involved in the 2007 and 2010 IPCC reports, will provide a Foreword to the book.