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Author | : Brian Walker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1999-03-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521624800 |
Download The Terrestrial Biosphere and Global Change Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Summarises understanding of global change interactions with terrestrial ecosystems.
Author | : Brian Harrison Walker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1996-11-13 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521578103 |
Download Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This major new book presents a collection of essays by leading authorities who address the current state of knowledge. The chapters bring together the early results of an international scientific research program designed to address what will happen to our ability to produce food and fiber, and what effects there will be on biological diversity under rapid environmental change. This book addresses how these changes to terrestrial ecosystems will feed back to further environmental change. International in scope, this state-of-the-art assessment will interest policymakers, students and scientists interested in global change, climate change and biodiversity. Special features include descriptions of a dynamic global vegetation model, developing generic crop models and a special section on the emerging discipline of global ecology.
Author | : Gordon Bonan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1107043786 |
Download Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides an essential introduction to modeling terrestrial ecosystems in Earth system models for graduate students and researchers.
Author | : H. H. Shugart |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-06-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1444348345 |
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Global climate change challenges ecologists to synthesize what we know to solve a problem with deep historical roots in our discipline. In ecology, the question, “How do terrestrial ecosystems interact with the other earth systems to produce planetary change?” has sufficient depth to be the focal challenge. This central question is sharpened further as the changes that we may be manifesting upon our planet’s systems of land, sea, air and ice can have potential consequences for the future of human civilization. This book provides the depth of the history of global ecology and reviews the breadth of the ideas being studied today. Each chapter starts with a brief narrative about a scientist whose work traces forward into today’s issues in global ecosystems. The discussions are framed in a growing realization that we may be altering the way our planet functions almost before we have gained the necessary knowledge of how it works at all.
Author | : Josep G. Canadell |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2007-01-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540327304 |
Download Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on impacts of atmospheric, climate and land use change, and the book discusses the future challenges and the scientific frameworks to address them. Finally, the book explores fundamental new research developments and the need for stronger integration of natural and human dimensions in addressing the challenge of global change.
Author | : Keith D. Alverson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642558283 |
Download Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that occurred in the earth system in the past. Focus is achieved by concentrating on those changes in the Earth's past environment that best inform our evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences for human populations. The book stands as a ten year milestone in the operation of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). It seeks to provide a quantitative understanding of the Earth’s environment in the geologically recent past and to define the envelope of natural environmental variability against which anthropogenic impacts on the Earth System may be assessed. A set of color overhead transparencies based on the figures in the book is available free on the PAGES website (www.pages-igbp.org) for use in teaching and lecturing.
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Download Global Change and the Terrestrial Biosphere (449th Brookhaven Lecture). Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since the Industrial Revolution, the increased use of fossil fuels has resulted in a dramatic and unprecedented rise in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Most scientists agree that increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have raised Earth's temperature and, without a reduction in emissions, will continue to do so. Terrestrial ecosystems sustain life on Earth through the production of food, fuel, fiber, clean air, and naturally purified water. But how will agriculture and ecosystems be affected by global change? Rogers will describe the impact of projected climate change on the terrestrial biosphere and explain why plants are not just passive respondents to global change, but play an important role in determining the rate of change.
Author | : B. Walker |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Will Steffen |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2005-12-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540266070 |
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Global Change and the Earth System describes what is known about the Earth system and the impact of changes caused by humans. It considers the consequences of these changes with respect to the stability of the Earth system and the well-being of humankind; as well as exploring future paths towards Earth-system science in support of global sustainability. The results presented here are based on 10 years of research on global change by many of the world's most eminent scholars. This valuable volume achieves a new level of integration and interdisciplinarity in treating global change.
Author | : Steve Trudgill |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1317884698 |
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Terrestrial Biosphere tries to pose the questions which underlie the many-sided debate of how to respond to and influence change: How should we view nature? What do we do for the best - how should we act - what are we trying to achieve and what should we be guided by?In doing so the book introduces and attempts to analyse not only scientific aspects of the debate but also cultural attitudes and values: the notions of ecosystem stability are now challenged and it is also clear that ecosystems are renewable but not repeatable. It finds that prescriptive 'solutions' based on current constructs may not be adequate. Feeling that analysis should lead to advocacy, the author believes that if we can't improve predictability, we have to increase adaptability which means that ecological and social capacity building should be advocated. This is seen in terms of concepts, institutions, attitudes and values which allow for a plurality of meanings and which can cope with surprise and unforeseen change - and which also facilitates responses to change.