Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change
Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change
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DOI：
10.1007/978-3-540-48842-2
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发表时间：
2007-06
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通讯作者：
M. Bush;J. Flenley;W. Gosling
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作者：
M. Bush;J. Flenley;W. Gosling
这一备受赞誉的作品的更新和扩展的第二版提供了气候变化对热带森林影响的最新概述。作者还调查了过去、现在和未来气候对地球上生物多样性最高的生态系统的影响。热带雨林对气候变化的反应，第二版，着眼于热带雨林生态如何被气候变化改变，而不是简单地看到植物群落是如何改变的。将重点转移到生态过程，例如气候如何构成多样性以及随后对热带森林生态的影响，为读者提供了更全面的报道。这本书的一个主要主题是人类、气候和森林生态之间的相互作用。作者都是各自领域的最重要的专家，他们探讨了热带系统的长期占领，火灾的影响和森林砍伐的未来气候影响，以及人为排放。对过去和未来系统的建模为从气候角度讨论保护铺平了道路，而不是通常的停止伐木的请求。这第二版提供了一个更新的文本在这个迅速发展的领域。现有章节经过修订和更新，两个全新的章节涉及中美洲和火灾对潮湿森林系统的影响。在新的第一章中，讨论了中美洲（洛萨诺，科雷亚，布什）的古气候和生态记录，而另一章则讨论了火对热带生态系统的影响。我们希望，曾在2007年和2010年IPCC报告中发挥核心作用的Jonathe Overpeck将为本书撰写前言。
This updated and expanded second edition of a much lauded work provides a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. The authors also investigate past, present and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet. Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change, Second Edition, looks at how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis on to ecological processes, eg 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 the book is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. The authors, all foremost experts in their fields, explore the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, together with anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging. This second edition provides an updated text in this rapidly evolving field. The existing chapters are revised and updated and two entirely new chapters deal with Central America and the effect of fire on wet forest systems. In the first new chapter, the paleoclimate and ecological record from Central America (Lozano, Correa, Bush) is discussed, while the other deals with the impact of fire on tropical ecosystems. It is hoped that Jonathon Overpeck, who has been centrally involved in the 2007 and 2010 IPCC reports, will provide a Foreword to the book.