Global Change and Terrestrial EcosystemsBrian Harrison Walker, Will Steffen Cambridge University Press, 13 nov. 1996 - 619 sidor This major new book presents a collection of essays by leading authorities who address the current state of knowledge. The chapters bring together the early results of an international scientific research program designed to address what will happen to our ability to produce food and fiber, and what effects there will be on biological diversity under rapid environmental change. This book addresses how these changes to terrestrial ecosystems will feed back to further environmental change. International in scope, this state-of-the-art assessment will interest policymakers, students and scientists interested in global change, climate change and biodiversity. Special features include descriptions of a dynamic global vegetation model, developing generic crop models and a special section on the emerging discipline of global ecology. |
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overview and synthesis | 13 |
The response of complex multispecies systems to elevated CO₂ | 20 |
E D Schulze | 40 |
implications for and beyond | 43 |
H H Shugart | 72 |
The role of vegetation in controlling carbon dioxide and water exchange | 77 |
a grassland case study | 93 |
The importance of structure in understanding global change | 117 |
co CTPM Gehrmann Laboratories University of Queensland St Lucia QLD 4072 | 319 |
Global change and ecological complexity | 341 |
Gunderson | 346 |
W W Hargrove | 396 |
Part seven | 451 |
Global and regional land use responses to climate change | 466 |
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology Bush Estate Penicuik Edinburgh EH26 OQB United | 472 |
J Lloyd | 475 |
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Colorado State University Fort Collins | 130 |
Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia Charlottesville | 131 |
Climate change disturbances and landscape dynamics | 149 |
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University | 184 |
The work of Focus 3 | 207 |
Gifford | 229 |
Lambert | 237 |
J Goudriaan | 258 |
J J Landsberg | 275 |
R W Sutherst | 291 |
Soil erosion under global change | 317 |
Incorporating landuse change in Earth system models illustrated | 484 |
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology Merlewood Research Station Grange over Sands | 495 |
Developing the potential for describing the terrestrial biospheres response | 511 |
Data requirements for global terrestrial ecosystem modelling | 529 |
Department of Global Change and Natural Systems Potsdam Institute for Climate | 555 |
G Turner | 557 |
Satellite data for monitoring understanding and modelling | 566 |
Conclusion | 584 |
challenges to GCTE | 595 |
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Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems: The Operational Plan William L. Steffen Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1992 |
Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Brian Harrison Walker,Will Steffen Ingen förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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agricultural ambient annual atmospheric CO2 Bazzaz biodiversity biological biomass biomes biosphere canopy carbon cycle carbon dioxide climate change CO₂ CO2 enrichment CO2 levels complex crop data sets deciduous decreased diversity dynamics Ecology ecosystem function ecosystem models ecosystem processes effects of climate effects of elevated elevated CO2 enhanced Environment environmental estimate feedbacks fire fluxes GCTE Gifford global carbon global change global climate grassland IGBP impact increase interactions Journal Körner land land-use landscape lation leaf area index long-term Melillo moisture net primary production nitrogen nutrient Oecologia parameters patch models patterns pest photosynthesis physiology population potential predicted primary production ratio regional Remote Sensing resource respiration responses to elevated rice scale scenario Schulze Science Shugart simulation soil organic matter soil water spatial species stomatal stomatal conductance structure studies surface temperate temperature terrestrial ecosystems tion transpiration tree tropical variables weather
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Terrestrial Global Productivity Jacques Roy,Bernard Saugier,Harold A. Mooney Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2001 |