Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Bush, Mark B. (Συγγραφέας), Flenley, John R. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Σειρά: Springer Praxis Books
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Meteorology.; Geology.; Geobiology.; Ecology.; Forestry.; Climate change.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Climate Change.

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 b...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.