| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 260 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color). |
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Oxford biology
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Oxford biology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-249) and index. |
| Contents |
PART I. Contemporary atmospheric change in the tropics. Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in the climate of tropical forest regions / Yadvinder Malhi and James Wright -- Twenty-first century atmospheric change and deforestation: potential impacts on tropical forests / Wolfgang Cramer -- Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes / William F. Laurance. PART II. Atmospheric change and ecosystem processes. Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests / Simon L. Lewis -- Ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses to atmospheric change / Jeffrey Q. Chambers and Whendee L. Silver -- Tropical forests dynamics in response to a Co2-rich atmosphere / Christian Korner -- The effects of drought on tropical forest ecosystems / Patrick Meir and John Grace. PART III. Observations of contemporary change in tropical forests. Ecological responses of Amazonian forests to El Nino-induced surface fires / Jos Barlow and Carlos A. Peres -- Late twentieth-century trends in tree-community composition in an Amazonian forest / William F. Laurance, Alexandre A. Oliveira -- Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in Amazon tree turnover / Oliver Phillips, Timothy R. Baker, Luzmila Arroyo -- Late twentieth-century trends in the biomass of Amazonian forest plots / Timothy R. Baker, Oliver L. Phillips, Yadvinder Malhi, Samuel Almeida -- Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of South American forests / Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips, Timothy R. Baker -- Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates / Jerome Chave, Guillem Chust. PART IV. The past and future of tropical forests. The longevity and resilience of the Amazon rainforest / Mark Maslin -- Amazonian ecosystems and atmospheric change since the last glacian maximum / Francis E. Mayle and Mark B. Bush -- Modelling the past and future fate of the Amazonian forest / Sharon A. Cowling, Richard A. Betts -- Climate. |
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change and speciation in neotropical seasonally dry forest plants / R. Toby Pennington, Matt Lavin -- The prospects for tropical forests in the twenty-first-century atmosphere / Oliver L. Phillips and Yadvinder Malhi. |
| Summary |
This text explores the vigorous contemporary debate as to how rapidly tropical forests may be affected by atmospheric change, and what this may mean for their future. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Tropics.
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Forest ecology -- Tropics.
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Forest microclimatology -- Tropics.
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Biodiversity -- Climatic factors -- Tropics.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Malhi, Y. (Yadvinder)
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Phillips, Oliver.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tropical forests & global atmospheric change. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0198567065 0198567057 (DLC) 2005019566 (OCoLC)60418030 |
| ISBN |
1429422076 (electronic bk.) |
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9781429422079 (electronic bk.) |
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0198567065 (alk. paper) |
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9780198567066 (alk. paper) |
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0198567057 (alk. paper) |
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9780198567059 (alk. paper) |
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