This new synthesis summarizes the international research effort in the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) Core Project of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme in five major thematic areas: ecosystem physiology, ecosystem structure and composition, terrestrial production systems, global biogeochemistry, and ecological complexity (biodiversity). The editors present a summary of the integrated and interactive effects of global change on the terrestrial biosphere for four key regions of the world, as well as a projection of future trends in the terrestrial component of the global carbon cycle. The book also includes a section on tools developed or modified for global change research.
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"...provide[s] some important guidelines for thinking about global changes to ecosystems. The book is also a primer of the state of scientific knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem function." Nature
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The international research effort on global change and terrestrial ecosystems is yielding useful results. This summary volume describes current understanding of how the world's vegetation, both natural and managed, is interacting with global environmental change. It describes both the impacts of global change on several key aspects of vegetation--its functioning, its structure and composition, its capability to produce food and fibre and its diversity--and the consequent feedbacks of these effects to further environmental change.
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Despite the growing prominence of global change as an environmental issue, the term 'global change' and the phenomena it encompasses are still widely misunderstood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
high latitude transects, terrestrial transects, terrestrial production systems, tropical transect, global change interactions, global change drivers, perturbation budget, dynamic global vegetation models, future rapid environmental changes, ecosystem physiology, plant functional types, biospheric models, common experimental protocols, forest gap models, global change context, biogeochemistry models, net carbon uptake, elevated coz, improved mechanistic understanding, global change effects, global change studies, grassland models, terrestrial carbon cycle, global change impacts, biogeography models Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southeast Asia, North America, Core Research Programme, South America, United States, Stafford Smith, Biosphere Programme, International Geosphere, Jambi Province, Boreal Forest Transect Case Study, Crop Networks, Impacts Centres, Net Biome Productivity, Network Workshop, Soil Erosion Network, Task Working Group, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Inaugural Workshop, Kalahari Transect, Klein Goldewijk, Lena River, Northern Australia Tropical Transect, Plant Migration Workshop Group New!
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Despite the growing prominence of global change as an environmental issue, the term 'global change' and the phenomena it encompasses are still widely misunderstood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
high latitude transects, terrestrial transects, terrestrial production systems, tropical transect, global change interactions, global change drivers, perturbation budget, dynamic global vegetation models, future rapid environmental changes, ecosystem physiology, plant functional types, biospheric models, common experimental protocols, forest gap models, global change context, biogeochemistry models, net carbon uptake, elevated coz, improved mechanistic understanding, global change effects, global change studies, grassland models, terrestrial carbon cycle, global change impacts, biogeography models Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southeast Asia, North America, Core Research Programme, South America, United States, Stafford Smith, Biosphere Programme, International Geosphere, Jambi Province, Boreal Forest Transect Case Study, Crop Networks, Impacts Centres, Net Biome Productivity, Network Workshop, Soil Erosion Network, Task Working Group, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Inaugural Workshop, Kalahari Transect, Klein Goldewijk, Lena River, Northern Australia Tropical Transect, Plant Migration Workshop Group New!
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- Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series) by Brian H. Walker on 18 pages
- Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series) by T. M. Smith on 8 pages
- Carbon Dioxide, Populations, and Communities (Physiological Ecology) by Fakhri A. Bazzaz on 6 pages
- Ecosystem Experiments by Harold A. Mooney on 4 pages
- Terrestrial Ecosystems by John D. Aber on 4 pages
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- Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems by Otto C. Doering III on page 213
- Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process by Monica G. Turner in Back Matter
- Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process by Monica Turner in Back Matter
- Drafting a Conservation Blueprint: A Practitioner's Guide To Planning For Biodiversity by Craig Groves in Back Matter
- Human Adaptability: An Introduction To Ecological Anthropology, Second Edition by Emilio F Moran in Back Matter
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