Global change and the terrestrial biosphere :
Publié par : Wiley-Blackwell, (Chichester, West Sussex ; | Hoboken, NJ :) Détails physiques : x, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm ISBN :9781444337211; 1444337211; 9781405185615; 1405185619.| Type de document | Site actuel | Cote | Statut | Date de retour prévue | Code à barres | Réservations |
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| Livre | La bibliothèque des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles | 577.22 SHU (Parcourir l'étagère) | Disponible | 0000000027589 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Climatic change : ecology's big question. Early environmental biogeography: from mapping plant species distributions to mapping vegetation -- Global distributions of vegetation -- Formation of biome interactions with climate -- Concluding remarks -- 2. The kaleidoscope of past vegetation patterns. Vegetation in past climates: Quaternary palaeoecology -- Challenges for environmental change studies from Quaternary palaeoecology -- Concluding comments -- 3. The complication of time and space scales. The ecosystem concept and scale -- Scale and the global dynamics of carbon -- Formulation of ecological models -- Interactive mosaic models -- Concluding comments -- 4. Meeting the climate change challenge. Historical roots of the 'greenhouse warming' concept -- Climate and vegetation: the challenge of prediction -- What is the significance of global climate change on Earth's vegetation? -- Mosaic landscape models -- Homogeneous landscape models and climate change -- Interactive global mosaic models -- Concluding comments -- 5. Dynamic vegetation modelling using individual-based models. Gap models: structure and model development -- History of gap model development -- Global climate change assessment applications of gap models -- Theoretical implications for global change ecology from gap models -- Concluding remarks -- 6. Vegetation futures and the rise of dynamic global vegetation models. Including the effects of land surface attributes and dynamics in climate models -- Dynamic global vegetation models -- The development of dynamic global vegetation model simulations -- Vegetation feedbacks on climate -- Observations of recent vegetation change -- Concluding comments -- 7. Climate-changed futures : how different will they be? The future view from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Carrying on from where the world was before now -- Carrying on from where the world is now -- Future realizations -- Concluding considerations -- 8. Climate change and global plant diversity. Making future predictions of diversity -- Getting at the mechanisms that control species diversity -- Simulating the impact of changing climate and CO₂ on future diversity -- The naturalization of invasive species -- Concluding remarks.
"Global climate change challenges ecologists to synthesize what we know to solve a problem with deep historical roots in our discipline. In ecology, the question, "How do terrestrial ecosystems interact with the other earth systems to produce planetary change?" has sufficient depth to be the focal challenge. This central question is sharpened further as the changes that we may be manifesting upon our planet's systems of land, sea, air and ice can have potential consequences for the future of human civilization.
This book provides the depth of the history of global ecology and reviews the breadth of the ideas being studied today. Each chapter starts with a brief narrative about a scientist whose work traces forward into today's issues in global ecosystems. The discussions are framed in a growing realization that we may be altering the way our planet functions almost before we have gained the necessary knowledge of how it works at all."--Pub. desc.


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