Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems

Part I. Introduction: 1. GTCE Science: objectives, structure, and implementation B. H. Walker and W. L. Steffen; Part II. Ecosystem Physiology: 2. Ecosystem physiology H. A. Mooney; 3. The response of complex multispecies systems to elevated CO2 C. H. Korner; 4. Elevated CO2 and terrestrial vegetation: implications for and beyond the global carbon budget F. A. Bazzaz et al.; 5. The role of vegetation in controlling carbon dioxide and water exchange between land surface and the atmosphere E. -Detlef Schulze et al.; 6. Integrated models of ecosystem function: a grassland case study Michael B. Coughenour and W. J. Parton; Part III. Ecosystem Structure: 7. The importance of structure in understanding global change H. H. Shugart; 8. The application of patch models in global change research T. M. Smith and H. H. Shugart; 9. Climate change, disturbances and landscape dynamics Robert H. Gardner et al.; 10. Linking the human dimension to landscape dynamics Ian R. Noble; 11. Landscape diversity and vegetation response to long-term climate change in the Eastern Olympic Peninsula, Pacific Northwest USA L. B. Brubaker and J. S. McLachlan; Part IV. Agriculture, Forestry and Soils: 12. The work of Focus 3 P. B. Tinker and J. S. I. Ingram; 13. Agriculture and global change: scaling direct carbon dioxide impacts and feedbacks through time R. M. Gifford et al.; 14. Predicting crop yields under global change J. Goudriaan; 15. Global change impacts on managed forests S. Linder et al.; 16. Linked pest-crop models under global change P. S. Teng et al.; 17. Soil erosion under climate change C. Valentin; Part V. Ecological Complexity: 18. Global change and ecological complexity O. E. Sala; 19. Self organization in ecosystems: lumpy geometries, periodicities and morphologies C. S. Holling et al.; 20. Diversity of soil biota and ecosystem function O. W. Heal et al.; 21. The functional role of species in terrestrial ecosystems F. S. Chapin III et al.; 22. Carbon and nitrogen interactions in the terrestial biosphere: anthropogenic effects J. M. Melillo; 23. Global dynamic vegetation modeling: coupling biogeochemistry and biogeography models R. P. Neilson and S. W. Running; 24. Global and regional land use responses to climate change M. L. Parry et al.; 25. Incorporating land-use change in Earth system models illustrated by Image 2 R. Leemans; 26. Developing the potential for describing the terestrial biosphere's response to a changing climate F. I. Woodward; 27. Data requirements for global terrestrial ecosystem modelling W. Cramer and A. Fischer; 28. Satellite data for monitoring, understanding and modelling of ecosystem functioning A. Fischer et al.; 29. Predicting a future terrestrial biosphere: challenges to GTCE science B. H. Walker; Index.