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Regions with Mediterranean-type climates include parts of
California, South America, Australia, and of course, Europe. The
effect of global climate change on these heavily populated areas
will have major social and political ramifications.
This volume addresses issues in these areas, from processes at the
leaf level to the individual, ecosystem, and landscape levels. This
book will serve to raise awareness on the significance of these
types of ecosystems, and on their sensitivity to the threat that
global change represents.
This book is dedicated to international cooperation, understanding
and peace. It is the end result of several years of cooperative
work between scientists of three countries: the United States,
Germany, and Portugal. The work presented, however, draws from a
much broader base, hopefully achieving the objective of NATO
Advanced Research Workshops, which have been established to allow
and stimulate the exchange of new ideas and the synthesis of
information by scientists of NATO countries. The tasks of the
workshop were several; to review established methodologies that
have provided insight into ecosystem function and adaptations of
plants in mediterranean climate zones; to examine new methodologies
that have recently been applied in ecological studies and have
provided new types of information; to summarize recent studies in
mediterranean regions of plant water relations, photosynthesis and
production, mineral nutrition, plant growth and development, and
response to fire; to stimulate in particular an exchange of
information among scientists of European Mediterranean countries;
and to discuss means by which all of these objectives might be even
more effectively achieved in the future through cooperative
international research efforts. This variety of themes is clearly
evident in the layout of the book. Held in Sesimbra, Portugal in
October of 1985, the workshop took place in a ..
Global warming is likely to have the greatest impact at high
latitudes, making the Arctic an important region both for detecting
global climate change and for studying its effects on terrestrial
ecosystems. The chapters in this volume address current and
anticipated impacts of global climate change on Arctic organisms,
populations, ecosystem structure and function, biological
diversity, and the atmosphere.
Regions with Mediterranean-type climates include parts of
California, South America, Australia, and of course, Europe. The
effect of global climate change on these heavily populated areas
will have major social and political ramifications.
This volume addresses issues in these areas, from processes at the
leaf level to the individual, ecosystem, and landscape levels. This
book will serve to raise awareness on the significance of these
types of ecosystems, and on their sensitivity to the threat that
global change represents.
Fire has been recognized as a vital agent influencing the diversity
and vigor of landscapes. It is particularly important in
Mediterranean ecosystems, such as those of California. This book is
of interest to ecologists, policy makers, and land managers.
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