Climate change and history of western Amazonian forests

ISBN-13: 9783639135053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 152 str.

Dunia H. Urrego

Opis

Amazonia is a center of biodiversity and explanations of its evolutionary history have hinged on climate change. Recently, attention has shifted to the role of future climate change on that biodiversity, as climate models predict as much as a 5 C warming by the end of the 21st century. The history of the region, and whether Amazonia has experienced climate change on that scale and speed, is largely unknown. A great number of questions remain unanswered because our current knowledge of paleoclimates and past vegetation in Amazonia is based on a thinly scattered network of paleoecological records. This work presents a piece of Quaternary history of western Amazonian forests and seeks a better understanding of past climate change impacts."

O autorze

Dunia H. Urrego is an Ecologist interested in the effects of past climate change on tropical forests. Her research aims to provide scientific bases to develop climate-change mitigation strategies for the future. Mark B. Bush is a Professor at Florida Institute of Technology and works on Central and South American paleoecological records.