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Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2011)
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Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2011)
Series: Environmental Sciences
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This updated and expanded second edition of a much lauded work
provides a current overview of the impacts of climate change on
tropical forests. The authors also investigate past, present and
future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest
biodiversity on the planet. Tropical Rainforest Responses to
Climatic Change, Second Edition, looks at how tropical rain forest
ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how
plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis on to
ecological processes, e.g. how diversity is structured by climate
and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the
reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of the
book is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology.
The authors, all foremost experts in their fields, explore the long
term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the
future climatic effects of deforestation, together with
anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future
systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a
climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging.
This second edition provides an updated text in this rapidly
evolving field. The existing chapters are revised and updated and
two entirely new chapters deal with Central America and the effect
of fire on wet forest systems. In the first new chapter, the
paleoclimate and ecological record from Central America (Lozano,
Correa, Bush) is discussed, while the other deals with the impact
of fire on tropical ecosystems. It is hoped that Jonathon Overpeck,
who has been centrally involved in the 2007 and 2010 IPCC reports,
will provide a Foreword to the book.
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