Book Details

Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-3-540-48842-2

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The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet. "Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change" will be the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis onto ecological processes e.g. how diversity is structured by climate and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of this book that emerges progressively is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology.


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Forest Ecology, Geoecology, Global Warming, Rain, Rainforest, biodiversity, climate change, ecology, ecosystem, environment, forest, logging, nature conservation, nutrient cycling, species diversity