Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems (Hardcover, Reprinted from CLIMATIC CHANGE, 39:2-3, 1998)

Climate change represents one of the most alarming long-term threats to ecosystems the world over. This new collection of papers provides, for the first time, an overview of the potentially serious impact that climate change may have on tropical forests. The authors, a multi-disciplinary group of leading experts in climatology, forestry, ecology and conservation biology, present a state-of-knowledge snapshot of how tropical forests are likely to react to the changes being wrought on our planet's atmosphere and climate. Tropical forests represent extraordinary harbours for biological diversity, and yet as deforestation and degradation continue apace, they are under greater pressure from human impacts than ever before. Climate change adds yet another threat to these valuable ecosystems, and this volume demonstrates just how significant a problem this may really be. The authors identify certain types of forest, including tropical montane cloud forest that may be particularly vulnerable. They also show the strong likelihood of global warming aggravating problems in already fragmented forest areas.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	2001
First published:	1998
Editors:	Adam Markham
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	463
Edition:	Reprinted from CLIMATIC CHANGE, 39:2-3, 1998
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-5124-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7923-5124-X
Barcode:	9780792351245

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