Author : G.-R. WALTHER
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN :
Ecological responses to recent climate change
G.-R. WALTHER
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Ecological Consequences of Climate Change
Erik A. Beever
Author : Erik A. Beever
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1420087223
Contemporary climate change is a crucial management challenge for wildlife scientists, conservation biologists, and ecologists of the 21st century. Climate fingerprints are being detected and documented in the responses of hundreds of wildlife species and numerous ecosystems around the world. To mitigate and accommodate the influences of climate ch
Ecology of Climate Change
Eric Post
Author : Eric Post
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2013-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691148473
Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them. In a remarkably comprehensive synthesis, this book presents past, ongoing, and future ecological responses to climate change in the context of two simplifying hypotheses, facilitation and interference, arguing that biotic interactions may be the primary driver of ecological responses to climate change across all levels of biological organization. Eric Post's synthesis and analyses of ecological consequences of climate change extend from the Late Pleistocene to the present, and through the next century of projected warming. His investigation is grounded in classic themes of enduring interest in ecology, but developed around novel conceptual and mathematical models of observed and predicted dynamics. Using stability theory as a recurring theme, Post argues that the magnitude of climatic variability may be just as important as the magnitude and direction of change in determining whether populations, communities, and species persist. He urges a more refined consideration of species interactions, emphasizing important distinctions between lateral and vertical interactions and their disparate roles in shaping responses of populations, communities, and ecosystems to climate change.
Abrupt Climate Change
National Research Council
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2002-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309133041
The climate record for the past 100,000 years clearly indicates that the climate system has undergone periodic-and often extreme-shifts, sometimes in as little as a decade or less. The causes of abrupt climate changes have not been clearly established, but the triggering of events is likely to be the result of multiple natural processes. Abrupt climate changes of the magnitude seen in the past would have far-reaching implications for human society and ecosystems, including major impacts on energy consumption and water supply demands. Could such a change happen again? Are human activities exacerbating the likelihood of abrupt climate change? What are the potential societal consequences of such a change? Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises looks at the current scientific evidence and theoretical understanding to describe what is currently known about abrupt climate change, including patterns and magnitudes, mechanisms, and probability of occurrence. It identifies critical knowledge gaps concerning the potential for future abrupt changes, including those aspects of change most important to society and economies, and outlines a research strategy to close those gaps. Based on the best and most current research available, this book surveys the history of climate change and makes a series of specific recommendations for the future.
“Fingerprints” of Climate Change
G.-R. Walther
Author : G.-R. Walther
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1441986928
In recent years an increasing number of studies have been published reporting observations of adapted behaviour and shifting species ranges of plant and animal species due to recent climate warming. Are these `fingerprints' of climate change? An international conference was organised to bring together scientists from different continents with different expertise but sharing the same issue of climate change impact studies. Ecologists, zoologists, and botanists exchanged and discussed the findings from their individual field of research. The present book is an international collection of biological signs of recent climate warming, neither based only on computer models nor on prediction for the future, but mainly on actually occurring changes in the biosphere such as adapted behaviour or shifts in the ranges of species. `Fingerprints' of Climate Change presents ecological evidence that organisms are responding to recent global warming. The observed changes may foreshadow the types of impacts likely to become more frequent and widespread with continued warming.
Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
National Research Council
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2008-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309127106
The world's climate is changing, and it will continue to change throughout the 21st century and beyond. Rising temperatures, new precipitation patterns, and other changes are already affecting many aspects of human society and the natural world. In this book, the National Research Council provides a broad overview of the ecological impacts of climate change, and a series of examples of impacts of different kinds. The book was written as a basis for a forthcoming illustrated booklet, designed to provide the public with accurate scientific information on this important subject.
Module-4
Gabriel Dominguez
Author : Gabriel Dominguez
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 2019-03-22
Category :
ISBN : 9780733438592
Effects of Climate Change on Insects
Daniel González-Tokman
Author : Daniel González-Tokman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0192864165
An advanced textbook that reviews the conceptual approaches and the most important advances in our current understanding of insect physiology, ecology, evolution and conservation, in the ongoing and rapidly developing context of global anthropogenic climate change.
Plants and Climate Change
Jelte Rozema
Author : Jelte Rozema
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 2007-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402044437
This book focuses on how climate affects or affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and in the past. The chapters describe how ecosystems from the Antarctic and Arctic, and from other latitudes, respond to global climate change. The papers highlight plant responses to atmospheric CO2 increase, to global warming and to increased ultraviolet-B radiation as a result of stratospheric ozone depletion.
Climate and Plant Distribution
F. I. Woodward
Author : F. I. Woodward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1987-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521282147
Correlation between plant distribution and climate is examined over different time and space scales to determine the mechanisms of control in physiological and biochemical terms.