Advances in Ecological Research
The Ecological Consequences of Global Climate Change
Academic Press
Published on 25. March 1992
336 pages
978-0-08-056706-8 (ISBN)
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The concepts and concerns regarding the global effects of a continued increase in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases have enjoyed a high visibility in newspapers and scientific journals. This concern is now being translated into big-science projects. These international projects aim to understand better the processes of climate and ecosystem changes and impacts and are being designed under the aegis of the World Climate Research Programme and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. Biological and climatic systems are intertwined in processes leading to impacts and feedbacks and so it has emerged that climatologists, atmospheric scientists, terrestrial and marine ecologists must collaborate in research programmes, else the bases of their future projections are incomplete. This special volume of Advances in Ecological Research brings together eight papers which propose and demonstrate the two major components of current climate change research, future prediction and interdisciplinary approach.
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F. I. Woodward
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Contributors to Volume 22
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1. The Climatic Response to Greenhouse Gases
- I. Why Build a Model?
- II. Basic Elements of Models
- III. The Problems of Parameterizations and Climatic Feedback Mechanisms
- IV. Sensitivity and Scenario Analysis
- V. Model Validation
- VI. Climatic Model Results
- VII. Concluding Remarks
- References
- Chapter 2. The Development of Regional Climate Scenarios and the Ecological Impact of Greenhouse Gas Warming
- I. Summary
- II. The Greenhouse Effect
- III. Appropriate Methods of Regional Scenario Development
- IV. The Reliability of General Circulation Models
- V. Equilibrium Climate Change
- VI. Transient Climate Change
- VII. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 3. The Potential Effect of Climate Changes on Agriculture and Land Use
- I. Abstract
- II. Introduction
- III. Assessments of Critical Types of Climatic Change
- IV. Effects of CO2 Enrichment
- V. Potential Effects of Changes of Climate
- VI. Effects of Sea-level Rise on Agriculture
- VII. Summary of Potential Effects of Climate Change and Sea-level Rise
- VIII. Effects on Production and Land Use
- IX. Effects on Forest Land Use
- X. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4. Modeling to be Potential Response of Vegetation to Global Climate Change
- I. Introduction
- II. Climate-Vegetation Classification
- III. Application of Holdridge Life-zone Classification to Climate Change at a Global Scale
- IV. Application of a Plant Energy Balance Model to Predicting Changes in Leaf Area Under Changing Climate Conditions
- V. Modeling Temporal Dynamics
- VI. Individual-based Forest Gap Models
- VII. Application of Gap Models to Predict Forest Response to Climate Change
- VIII. Discussion
- References
- Chapter 5. Effects of Climatic Change on the Population Dynamics of Crop Pests
- I. Summary
- II. Introduction
- III. Direct Effects of Climate on Pest Populations
- IV. Indirect Effects of Climate on Pest Populations
- V. Effects of Climate on Pest-Host Plant-Natural Enemy Relationships
- VI. Implications of Climatic Change for Pest Management
- VII. Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 6. Responses of Soils to Climate Change
- I. Summary
- II. Introduction
- III. Biotic and Industrial Sources of Trace Gases
- IV. Future Patterns of Climate Change and Impact on Vegetation
- V. Climate-related Patterns of Soil Carbon Pools and Fluxes
- VI. Effects of Climate on Litter Decomposition
- VII. Soil Organic Matter Dynamics and Climate Change
- VIII. Consequences of Climate Change for Plant-Soil Interactions
- IX. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7. Predicting the Responses of the Coastal Zone to Global Change
- I. Introduction
- II. Nature of the Coastal Zone
- III. Effects of Human Activities
- IV. Effects of Climate Change
- V. Effects of Sea-level Change
- VI.Responses of the Coastal Zone to Global Change
- VII. Management of the Coastal Zone
- VIII. Research Needs
- IX. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 8. The Past as a Key to the Future: The Use of Palaeoenvironmental Understanding to Predict the Effects of Man on the Biosphere
- I. Summary
- II. Introduction
- III. The Record of the Past
- IV. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
- Cumulative List of Titles
