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Climate change represents one of the most alarming long-term threats to ecosystems the world over. This new collection of papers provides, for the first time, an overview of the potentially serious impact that climate change may have on tropical forests. The authors, a multi-disciplinary group of leading experts in climatology, forestry, ecology and conservation biology, present a state-of-knowledge snapshot of how tropical forests are likely to react to the changes being wrought on our planet's atmosphere and climate.
Tropical forests represent extraordinary harbours for biological diversity, and yet as deforestation and degradation continue apace, they are under greater pressure from human impacts than ever before. Climate change adds yet another threat to these valuable ecosystems, and this volume demonstrates just how significant a problem this may really be. The authors identify certain types of forest, including tropical montane cloud forest that may be particularly vulnerable. They also show the strong likelihood of global warming aggravating problems in already fragmented forest areas.
Tropical forests represent extraordinary harbours for biological diversity, and yet as deforestation and degradation continue apace, they are under greater pressure from human impacts than ever before. Climate change adds yet another threat to these valuable ecosystems, and this volume demonstrates just how significant a problem this may really be. The authors identify certain types of forest, including tropical montane cloud forest that may be particularly vulnerable. They also show the strong likelihood of global warming aggravating problems in already fragmented forest areas.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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`... it will be of interest to many working on the ecology and management of these forests ...'
Progress in Environmental Science, 1:4 (1999)
Progress in Environmental Science, 1:4 (1999)
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Book Title: Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems
Editors: Adam Markham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2730-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5124-5Published: 31 July 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5046-5Published: 04 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2730-3Published: 11 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 463
Topics: Applied Ecology, Nature Conservation, Atmospheric Sciences, Forestry, Plant Ecology