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Beeby & Brennan: First Ecology - Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues 3e

12. Global climate change

Physical processes

Case study 12a - The time taken for stabilisation of the energy budget of the atmosphere

  1. Box 8.2 - simple explanation of global climate processes

  2. Box 8.3 - the Greenhouse Effect

  3. Section 8.3 - the physics and chemistry of climate change, indicators of change

  4. Box 8.4 - the carbon balance of the atmosphere

  5. Box 8.7 - uncertainty in the predictions from models of climate change


Biological impacts

Case study 12b - The ecological implications of climate change for the mediterranean-type regions

  1. Section 8.3 - the impact of global climate change on the major biomes

  2. Box 5.1 - the history of human impact and the drying of the Mediterranean basin

  3. Box 5.2 - deforestation and the increased aridity of the Mediterranean basin

  4. Box 5.6 - agricultural impact and water resources in the Mediterranean basin

  5. Box 8.7 - the economics and politics of climate change