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1 online resource (xxxiv, 454 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Springer-Praxis series in environmental sciences |
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Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences.
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| Contents |
Tropical RainforestResponses to Climatic Change; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations and acronyms; Editors; Contributors; 1 Cretaceous and Tertiary climate change and thepast distribution of megathermal rainforests; 2 Andean montane forests and climate change; 3 Climate and vegetation change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin; 4 The Quaternary history ofFar Eastern rainforests; 5 Rainforest responses to past climatic changes in tropical Africa |
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6 Prehistoric human occupation and impacts on Neotropical forest landscapes during the Late Pleistocene and Early/Middle Holocene7 The past, present, and future importance of fire in tropical rainforests; 8 Ultraviolet insolation and the tropical rainforest: Altitudinal variations, Quaternary and recent change, extinctions, and the evolution of biodiversity; 9 Climate change in the Amazon Basin: Tipping points, changes in extremes, and impacts on natural and human systems; 10 Plant species diversity in Amazonian forests; 11 Biogeochemical cycling in tropical forests |
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12 The response of South American tropical forests to recent atmospheric changes13 Ecophysiological response of lowland tropical plants to Pleistocene climate; 14 Tropical environmental dynamics: A modeling perspective; 15 Modeling future effects of climate change on tropical forests; 16 Conservation, climate change, and tropical forests; Taxonomic index; Subject index |
| Summary |
This book looks at 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, together with anthropogenic emissions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Tropics
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Rain forest ecology.
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Rain forest animals -- Climatic factors
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Rain forest plants -- Climatic factors
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Climat.
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Environnement.
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Climatic changes
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Rain forest ecology
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Tropics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bush, Mark B
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Flenley, John
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Gosling, William D
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| ISBN |
9783642053832 |
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3642053831 |
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