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Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

Over 100 authors present 25 contributions on the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems including:

• key processes of the earth system such as the CO2 fertilization effect, shifts in disturbances and biome distribution, the saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink, and changes in functional biodiversity,

• ecosystem services such the production of wheat, pest control, and carbon storage in croplands, and

• sensitive regions in the world threaten by rapid changes in climate and land use such as high latitudes ecosystems, tropical forest in Southeast Asia, and ecosystems dominated by Monsoon climate.

The book also explores new research developments on spatial thresholds and nonlinearities, the key role of urban development in global biogeochemical processes, and the integration of natural and social sciences to address complex problems of the human-environment system.

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Autor

Josep Candadell Science officer of the global change and terrestrial ecosystems (GCTE) core project of IGBP at Standford University, and executive officer of GCTE at CSIRO-Australia. Currently, executive director of the Global Carbon Project, a joint project of IGBP, IHDP, WCRP, and Diversitas Diane Pataki Former Scientific Officer for GCTE Focus 1, Ecosystem Physiology, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, USA. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, jointly in the Department of Earth System Science and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Louis Pitelka Chief Science Advisory for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Competitive Grants Program. Former Chair of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems core project of IGBP. Involved in research on the effects of global change on terrestrial ecosystems since 1990. Former Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Applications

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783540327301
• Artikelnr.: 37365718

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This volume integrates 25 contributors prepared by over 100 authors from around the world working under the auspices of the Programme. ... this book brings the IGBP research on terrestrial ecosystems to a wide scientific audience, and includes the latest developments and achievements in this area. ... The introductory and summary chapters are very valuable, rendering the book accessible to a general audience, not only to specialists. The book can also be highly recommended to the broad scientific community interested in global change." (Urszula Somorowska, Papers on Global Change, Issue 15, 2008)

Aus den Rezensionen: "... Das Werk gibt einen fundierten Einblick in den aktuellen Kenntnisstand einer Vielzahl von Aspekten der behandelten Thematik. Es zeigt, dass die verschiedenen Einflüsse von Klima- und Umweltänderungen auf terrestrische Ökosysteme zum Teil viel komplexer sind, als man es noch vor wenigen Jahren erwartet hätte. Dadurch ist dieses Werk nicht nur für Wissenschaftler und Entscheidungsträger bedeutsam, die sich mit dem Einfluss zukünftiger Klima- und Umweltänderungen auf Mensch und Umwelt beschäftigen, sondern auch für zahlreiche GeowissenschaftIer ..." (D. Uhl, in: Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil II, 2007, Issue 5-6, S. 823 f.)