Global Change
Effects on Coniferous Forests and Grasslands
Published on 20. November 1996
Book
Hardback
484 pages
978-0-471-96837-5 (ISBN)
Description
The fundamental ecological processes of the planet are changing. Exactly how ecosystems will respond is not well known. This work is a study of two key ecosystems. How these systems will respond to global climate change and how they might ameliorate, or contribute to, climate change in the future was the subject of a project by SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems in the Environment. The project had three objectives: firstly, a critical assessment of our understanding of the effects of climate on production and decomposition processes in coniferous forests and grasslands, temperate and tropical; secondly, a review of exact forest and grassland ecosystem models, and an evaluation of production decay processes; and thirdly, the development of a foundation for the design of diagnostic and predictive models to describe the effects of climate change on forests and grasslands.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-96837-5 (9780471968375)
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Content
The Carbon Budget of Boreal Forests: Reducing the Uncertainty; Carbon Budget: Temperate Coniferous Forests; The Carbon Budget of Tropical Savannahs, Woodlands and Grasslands; Carbon Budgets of Temperate Grasslands and the Effects of Global Change; Photosynthesis, Rising Atmosphere CO2 Concentration and Climate Change; Rising Atmospheric CO2 and Plant Respiration; Carbon and Nutrient Allocation in Terrestrial Ecosystems; Elevated CO2, Litter Quality and Decomposition; Ecosystem Physiology - Soil Organic Matter; Global Grassland Ecosystem Modelling: Development and Test of Ecosystem Models for Grassland Systems; Impact of Climate and Atmospheric CO2 Changes on Grasslands of the World; Comparing Models of Ecosystem Function for Temperate Coniferous Forests I. - Model Description and Validation; Comparing Models of Ecosystem Function for Temperate Conifer Forests II. - Simulations of the Effects of Climate Change; Global Climate Change and Carbon Cycling in Grasslands and Conifer Forests; Prediction of Global Biome Distribution Using Bioclimatic Equilibrium Models.