Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

ISBN-13: 9783642062902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 396 str.

John Flenley; Mark Bush

Opis

This is the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. The book s goal is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. It aims to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet. "

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This ... book deals with responses of rain forests--in the Far East, Africa, and South America--to climatic change. ... The coverage is up-to-date, and each chapter has its own reference section. The figures and tables are well done and useful. ... Good subject index. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners." (K. L. Williams, CHOICE, Vol. 44 (9), May, 2007)

Spis treści

1. Cretaceous and Tertiary climate change and the past distribution of megathermal rain forest.- 2. Andean Montane forests and climate change.- 3. Climate change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin.- 4. The Quaternary history of far eastern rainforests.- 5. Rain Forest responses to past climatic changes in Tropical Africa.- 6. Tropical environment dynamics: a modelling perspective.- 7. Prehistoric human occupation and impacts on Neotropical forest landscapes during the Late Pleistocene and Early/Middle Holocene.- 8. Ultraviolet insolation and the Tropical Rain Forest: altitudinal variations, Quaternary and recent change, extinctions and biodiversity.- 9. Climate change and hydrological models of the wet tropics.- 10. Plant species diversity in Amazonian Forests.- 11. Nutrient cycling and climate change in tropical forests.- 12. The response of South American tropical rain forests to contemporary atmospheric change.- 13. Ecophysiological response of lowland tropical plants to Pleistocene climate.- 14.Modelling future effects of climate change on tropical forests.- 15. Conservation, climate change and tropical forests.

O autorze

PhD Mark B. Bush, Professor at the Biology Department of Florida Institute of Technology (FIT).