Vegetation Dynamics & Global Change

AvAllen M. Solomon,Herman H. Shugart

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

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The response of forests to global climate change is one of the most hotly contested issues in the greenhouse effect debate. Much effort is being devoted to the construction of models which describe the function of the forests and their rate of change. There are a wealth of techniques available to project large-scale vegetation patterns, all based on different underlying models that contain fundamental biological and ecological mechanisms. This book introduces both students and professionals in ecology, environmental science, biomathematics, forestry, and the earth sciences to the sophisticated mathematical and computational tools used to predict the rate of change in the world's forests. It emphasizes the importance of scale in global studies. Leaders in the field of vegetation modelling cover physiological phenomena typically measured at small time and space scales; the stand dynamics of forests; large-scale models of forest dynamics; the reconstruction of forest vegetation of past climates as a way to understand current global changes; and the role of forests in the global carbon cycle.Several themes run through the book, including the need to understand how processes important at one time and space scale can be conceptualized at larger scales; the need to optimize the conceptual benefits of representing processes in detail and the attendant difficulties of estimating parameters and designing tests for elaborate models; and the need to identify the most appropriate system variables. This book should be of interest to students and professionals in the field of ecology; earth science; forestry and biomathematics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-01-31
Mått:155 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt:791 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:338
Upplaga:1993
Förlag:Chapman and Hall
ISBN:9780412036712

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This text will be of interest to ecologists, environmental scientists, foresters, earth scientists and students of global climate change...valuable for the reconstruction of forest vegetation - Biological Abstracts; Overall, the editors are to be commended on producing a book that is well balanced in its coverage of this broad subject. Most chapters have a summary, the book is indexed, and it is remarkable free of errors. The low price and scope of the book will surely mean that it is already on shelves in many offices as well as libraries - Forest Ecology and Management; This text will be of interest to ecologists, environmental scientists, foresters, earth scientists and students of global climate change...valuable for the reconstruction of forest vegetation - Biological Abstracts; Overall, the editors are to be commended on producing a book that is well balanced in its coverage of this broad subject. Most chapters have a summary, the book is indexed, and it is remarkable free of errors. The low price and scope of the book will surely mean that it is already on shelves in many offices as well as libraries - Forest Ecology and Management; This text will be of interest to ecologists, environmental scientists, foresters, earth scientists and students of global climate change...valuable for the reconstruction of forest vegetation - Biological Abstracts; Overall, the editors are to be commended on producing a book that is well balanced in its coverage of this broad subject. Most chapters have a summary, the book is indexed, and it is remarkable free of errors. The low price and scope of the book will surely mean that it is already on shelves in many offices as well as libraries - Forest Ecology and Management

Innehållsförteckning

I Introduction.- 1. Global Change.- II Biotic Responses to Global Environmental Change.- 2. Biospheric Implications of Global Environmental Change.- 3. CO2 Fertilization: The Great Uncertainty in Future Vegetation Development.- 4. Leaf Responses to the Environment and Extrapolation to Larger Scales.- 5. The Prediction and Physiological Significance of Tree Height.- 6. Uncertainties in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle.- 7. Coupling of the Atmosphere with Vegetation.- III Measuring Global Vegetation Change.- 8. Monitoring Vegetation Change Using Satellite Data.- 9. Global Geographic Information Systems and Databases for Vegetation Change Studies.- 10. Assessing Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation Using Climate Classification Systems.- 11. Vegetation Diversity and Classification Systems.- IV Modeling Global Vegetation Change.- 12. Modeling Large-Scale Vegetation Dynamics.- 13. Rapid Simulations of Vegetation Stand Dynamics with Mixed Life-Forms.- 14. Plant Functional Types.- 15. Vegetation Functional Classification Systems as Approaches to Predicting and Quantifying Global Vegetation Change.- 16. Modeling Crop Responses to Environmental Change.- Concluding Comments.