Tropical forests & global atmospheric change

edited by Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver L. Phillips

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.

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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.

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[目次]

  • Foreword
  • CONTEMPORARY ATMOSPHERIC CHANGE IN THE TROPICS
  • 1. Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions
  • 2. Impacts of future CO2 increase, climate change and deforestation on tropical forests
  • 3. Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes
  • ATMOSPHERIC CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES
  • 4. Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests
  • 5. Tropical forests and atmospheric change: a summary of ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses
  • 6. Through enhanced tree dynamics, CO2 enrichment may cause tropical forests to lose carbon
  • 7. The response by tropical forest ecosystems to drought
  • OBSERVATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY CHANGE IN TROPICAL FORESTS
  • 8. Ecological responses to El Nino-induced surface fires in central Brazilian Amazonia: management implications for flammable tropical forests
  • 9. Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests: effects of global change?
  • 10. Amazon tree turnover in the late twentieth century
  • 11. Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots
  • 12. Are concerted, widespread, directional changes occurring in the structure and dynamics of South American tropical forests?
  • 13. Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates
  • THE PAST AND FUTURE OF TROPICAL FORESTS
  • 14. The longevity and resilience of the Amazon Rainforest
  • 15. Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric CO2 changes since the Last Glacial Maximum
  • 16. Modelling the past and future fate of the Amazonian Forest
  • 17. Climate change and speciation in Neotropical seasonally dry forest plants
  • SYNTHESIS

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[目次]

  • Foreword
  • CONTEMPORARY ATMOSPHERIC CHANGE IN THE TROPICS
  • 1. Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions
  • 2. Impacts of future CO2 increase, climate change and deforestation on tropical forests
  • 3. Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes
  • ATMOSPHERIC CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES
  • 4. Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests
  • 5. Tropical forests and atmospheric change: a summary of ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses
  • 6. Through enhanced tree dynamics, CO2 enrichment may cause tropical forests to lose carbon
  • 7. The response by tropical forest ecosystems to drought
  • OBSERVATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY CHANGE IN TROPICAL FORESTS
  • 8. Ecological responses to El Nino-induced surface fires in central Brazilian Amazonia: management implications for flammable tropical forests
  • 9. Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests: effects of global change?
  • 10. Amazon tree turnover in the late twentieth century
  • 11. Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots
  • 12. Are concerted, widespread, directional changes occurring in the structure and dynamics of South American tropical forests?
  • 13. Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates
  • THE PAST AND FUTURE OF TROPICAL FORESTS
  • 14. The longevity and resilience of the Amazon Rainforest
  • 15. Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric CO2 changes since the Last Glacial Maximum
  • 16. Modelling the past and future fate of the Amazonian Forest
  • 17. Climate change and speciation in Neotropical seasonally dry forest plants
  • SYNTHESIS

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この本の情報

書名 Tropical forests & global atmospheric change
著作者等 Malhi, Yadvinder
Phillips, Oliver L.
Phillips Oliver
書名別名 Tropical forests and global atmospheric change
シリーズ名 Oxford biology
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2005
ページ数 xv, 260 p., [8] p. of plates
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 0198567057
0198567065
NCID BA73394319
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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