Vegetation Dynamics & Global Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Global Change

      • Herman H. Shugart

      Pages 3-21

3. Biotic Responses to Global Environmental Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Biospheric Implications of Global Environmental Change

      • Allen M. Solomon, Wolfgang Cramer

      Pages 25-52

   3. CO2 Fertilization: The Great Uncertainty in Future Vegetation Development

      • Christian Körner

      Pages 53-70

   4. Leaf Responses to the Environment and Extrapolation to Larger Scales

      • F. I. Woodward

      Pages 71-100

   5. The Prediction and Physiological Significance of Tree Height

      • A. D. Friend

      Pages 101-115

   6. Uncertainties in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

      • W. M. Post

      Pages 116-132

   7. Coupling of the Atmosphere with Vegetation

      • Philippe Martin

      Pages 133-149

4. Measuring Global Vegetation Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Monitoring Vegetation Change Using Satellite Data

      • B. N. Rock, D. L. Skole, B. J. Choudhury

      Pages 153-167

   3. Global Geographic Information Systems and Databases for Vegetation Change Studies

      • David L. Skole, Berrien Moore III, Walter H. Chomentowski

      Pages 168-189

   4. Assessing Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation Using Climate Classification Systems

      • Wolfgang P. Cramer, Rik Leemans

      Pages 190-217

   5. Vegetation Diversity and Classification Systems

      • G. Grabherr, S. Kojima

      Pages 218-232

5. Modeling Global Vegetation Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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   2. Modeling Large-Scale Vegetation Dynamics

      • I. Colin Prentice, Robert A. Monserud, Thomas M. Smith, William R. Emanuel

      Pages 235-250

   3. Rapid Simulations of Vegetation Stand Dynamics with Mixed Life-Forms

      • Mark R. Fulton

      Pages 251-271

   4. Plant Functional Types

      • T. M. Smith, H. H. Shugart, F. I. Woodward, P. J. Burton

      Pages 272-292

   5. Vegetation Functional Classification Systems as Approaches to Predicting and Quantifying Global Vegetation Change

      • J. P. Grime

      Pages 293-305

During the summer of 1987, a series of discussions I was held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (nASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, to plan a study of global vegetation change. The work was aimed at promoting the Interna­ tional Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), sponsored by the International Council of Scientific Unions (lCSU), of which nASA is a member. Our study was designed to provide initial guidance in the choice of approaches, data sets and objectives for constructing global models of the terrestrial biosphere. We hoped to provide substantive and concrete assistance in formulating the working plans of IGBP by involving program planners in the development and application of models which were assembled from available data sets and modeling ap­ proaches. Recent acceptance of the "nASA model" as the starting point for endeavors of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Core Project of the IGBP suggests we were successful in that aim. The objective was implemented by our initiation of a mathematical model of global vegetation, including agriculture, as defined by the forces which control and change vegetation. The model was to illustrate the geographical consequences to vegetation structure and functioning of changing climate and land use, based on plant responses to environmental variables. The completed model was also expected to be useful for examining international environmental policy responses to global change, as well as for studying the validity of IIASA's experimental approaches to environmental policy development.

• classification
• databases
• ecology
• environment
• vegetation
• ecotoxicology

This text will be of interest to ecologists, environmental scientists, foresters, earth scientists and students of global climate change...valuable for the reconstruction of forest vegetation - Biological Abstracts; Overall, the editors are to be commended on producing a book that is well balanced in its coverage of this broad subject. Most chapters have a summary, the book is indexed, and it is remarkable free of errors. The low price and scope of the book will surely mean that it is already on shelves in many offices as well as libraries - Forest Ecology and Management; This text will be of interest to ecologists, environmental scientists, foresters, earth scientists and students of global climate change...valuable for the reconstruction of forest vegetation - Biological Abstracts; Overall, the editors are to be commended on producing a book that is well balanced in its coverage of this broad subject. Most chapters have a summary, the book is indexed, and it is remarkable free of errors. The low price and scope of the book will surely mean that it is already on shelves in many offices as well as libraries - Forest Ecology and Management; This text will be of interest to ecologists, environmental scientists, foresters, earth scientists and students of global climate change...valuable for the reconstruction of forest vegetation - Biological Abstracts; Overall, the editors are to be commended on producing a book that is well balanced in its coverage of this broad subject. Most chapters have a summary, the book is indexed, and it is remarkable free of errors. The low price and scope of the book will surely mean that it is already on shelves in many offices as well as libraries - Forest Ecology and Management

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ERL-C, Corvallis, USA

  Allen M. Solomon

• Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

  Herman H. Shugart

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