Global Climate Change and Human Impacts on Forest Ecosystems - Postglacial Development, Present Situation and Future Trends in Central Europe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)

The inclusion of forests as potential biological sinks in the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1997 has attracted international attention and again has put scientific and political focus on the world's forests, regarding their state and development. The international discus sion induced by the Kyoto Protocol has clearly shown that not only the tropical rain forests are endangered by man's activities, but also that the forest ecosystems of boreal, temperate, mediterranean and subtropical regions have been drastically modified. Deforestation on a large scale, burning, over-exploitation, and the degra dation of the biological diversity are well-known symptoms in forests all over the world. This negative development happens in spite of the already existing knowledge of the benefits of forests on global energy and water regimes, the biogeochemical cycling of carbon and other elements as well as on the biological and cultural diversity. The reasons why man does not take care of forests properly are manifold and complex and there is no easy solution how to change the existing negative trends. One reason that makes it so difficult to assess the impacts of human activity on the future development of forests is the large time scale in which forests react, ranging from decades to centuries."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Ecological Studies, 143
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	2001
Authors:	J. Puhe
Contributors:	A. Dohrenbusch
Authors:	B. Ulrich
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	592
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-64012-4
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Soil science, sedimentology Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-64012-5
Barcode:	9783642640124

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