Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change
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Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in hydrology, carbon storage and exchange. Many of the human-induced pressures these regions are facing, e.g. fragmentation and deforestation, have been widely reported and well documented. However, there have been surprisingly few efforts to synthesize cutting-edge science in the area of tropical forest interaction with atmospheric change. At a time when our global atmosphere is undergoing a period of rapid change, both in terms of climate and in the cycling of essential elements such as carbon and nitrogen, a thorough and up-to-date analysis is now timely. This research level text, suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in plant ecology, tropical forestry, climate change science, and conservation biology, explores the vigorous contemporary debate as to how rapidly tropical forests may be affected by atmospheric change, and what this may mean for their future.Features
- First synthesis of the potential sensitivity of tropical forests to global climate change
- Authors for every chapter have been carefully chosen from the world's leading scientists in the field, giving readers access to the very latest thinking and findings in this important area, and every chapter has been rigorously peer-reviewed
- Figures and photographs, in colour and black-and-white, assist the reader in comprehending key global patterns and trends in tropical forest climate and ecology
- Chapters are pitched to convey the latest scientific findings to as wide an audience as possible, bringing important and cutting-edge science to students as well as to practising scientists
- A broad range of topics is covered, from paleoecology to plant physiology and from field ecology to atmospheric science, giving the reader a broad perspective on tropical forests in the past, present and future
Reviews
"Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver Phillips have been at the forefront of global change research in the Tropics for decades and are eminently qualified to produce an overview of the current state of research. They have produced a timely summary that will hopefully inspire the next phase of research into tropical forest response to atmospheric change."-- Bulletin of the American Meterological Society
"Highly important contribution and is thoroughly recommended."--Quarterly Review of Biology
Product Details
320 pages; 9 halftones, 10 color plates, 76 line illus.; ISBN13: 978-0-19-856706-6ISBN10: 0-19-856706-5About the Author(s)
Yadvinder Malhi is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK, and Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of the Atmosphere and Biosphere, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK. Oliver Phillips is Reader in Tropical Ecology in the Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK, and Visiting Researcher at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA. He was awarded the British Ecological Society's 'Founder Prize' in 2004 for outstanding early career ecological research.
