Advances in Bioclimatology 1

1. Front Matter

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2. Review of Techniques to Measure CO2 Flux Densities from Surface and Airborne Sensors

   • R. L. Desjardins

   Pages 1-23

3. Interaction of Carbon Dioxide with Growth-Limiting Environmental Factors in Vegetation Productivity: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle

   • R. M. Gifford

   Pages 24-58

4. Radiative Transfer in Nonhomogeneous Plant Canopies

   • T. Nilson

   Pages 59-88

5. Deforestation, Revegetation, Water Balance and Climate: An Optimistic Path Through the Plausible, Impracticable and the Controversial

   • E. A. N. Greenwood

   Pages 89-154

6. Back Matter

   Pages 155-157

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Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has increased globally from about 280 ppm before the Industrial Revolution (Pearman 1988) to about 353 ppm in 1990. That increase, and the continuing increase at a rate of about 1.5 ppm per annum, owing mainly to fossil fuel burning, is likely to cause change in climate, in primary productivity of terrestrial vegetation (managed and unmanaged), and in the degree of net sequestration of atmospheric CO into organic form. The quantitative role 2 of the latter in attenuating the increase in atmospheric CO concentration itself is 2 an important but uncertain element of the global carbon-cycle models that are required to predict future increases of atmospheric CO concentration. 2 In my experience in workshops and other multidisciplinary gatherings, argument arises in discussion of this topic among different groups of scientists such as bioclimatologists, plant physiologists, biogeochemists and ecologists. Plant concentration physiologists are often impressed by the positive effect of higher CO 2 on plant growth under experimental controlled environments and argue that this would be at least partly expressed in the field for many species and communities.

• Atmosphäre
• Bioklimatologie
• Climate
• Climatology
• Deforestation
• Frost
• Klima
• Kohlenstoffkreislauf
• atmosphere
• carbon cycle
• environment
• forest
• vegetation

• Research Branch Ottawa, Centre for Biological and Land Resource Research, Canada

  R. L. Desjardins

• Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia

  R. M. Gifford

• Institute of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tôravere, Tartu, Estonia

  T. Nilson

• Division of Water Resources Perth Laboratory Private Bag, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Wembley, Australia

  E. A. N. Greenwood

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