Title Tropical rainforest responses to climatic change / [edited by] Mark B. Bush and John R. Flenley

Published Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 396 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) Series Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences. Contents Cretaceous and territory climate change and the past distribution of megathermal rainforests -- Andean montane forests and climate change -- Climate change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin -- The Quaternary history of far eastern rainforests -- Rainforest responses to past climatic changes in tropical Africa -- Tropical environmental dynamics: a modeling perspective -- Prehistoric human occupation and impacts on Neotropical forest landscapes during the Late Pleistocene and Early/Middle Holocene -- Ultraviolet insolation and the tropical rainforest: altitudinal variations, quaternary and recent changes, extinctions, and biodiversity -- Climate change and hydrological modes of the wet tropics -- Plant species diversity in Amazonian forests -- Nutrient-cycling and climate change in tropical forests -- The response of South American tropical forests to contemporary atmospheric change -- Ecophysiological response of lowland tropical plants to Pleistocene climate -- Modeling future effects of climate change on tropical forests -- Conservation, climate change, and tropical forests Summary Presents an overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. This book examines how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change. It explores the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, coupled with anthropogenic emissions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record In Springer eBooks Subject Climatic changes -- Tropics Rain forest ecology. Rain forest animals -- Climatic factors Rain forest plants -- Climatic factors Geology. Climatic changes. Geology Climate Change geology. climate change. Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Tropics. Rain forest ecology. Rain forest animals -- Climatic factors. Rain forest plants -- Climatic factors. Environnement. Sciences de la terre. Climatic changes Rain forest ecology Regenwouden. Ecosystemen. Klimaatveranderingen. Menselijke invloed. Tropics Form Electronic book Author Bush, Mark B. Flenley, John. LC no. 2006928274 ISBN 9783540488422 3540488421 3540239081 9783540239086 9786610943692 6610943699 1280943696 9781280943690

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