Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Future of Biodiversity in a Changing World

   • F. Stuart Chapin III, Osvaldo E. Sala, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Rik Leemans

   Pages 1-4

3. Modeling the Response of Vegetation Distribution and Biodiversity to Climate Change

   • Martin T. Sykes, Alex Haxeltine

   Pages 5-22

4. The Use of Global-Change Scenarios to Determine Changes in Species and Habitats

   • Rik Leemans

   Pages 23-45

5. Soil Biodiversity

   • Diana H. Wall, Gina Adams, Andrew N. Parsons

   Pages 47-82

6. Scenarios of Biodiversity Changes in Arctic and Alpine Tundra

   • Marilyn D. Walker, William A. Gould, F. Stuart Chapin III

   Pages 83-100

7. Boreal Forest

   • F. Stuart Chapin III, Kjell Danell

   Pages 101-120

8. Temperate Grasslands

   • Osvaldo E. Sala

   Pages 121-137

9. Tropical Savanna

   • Brian Walker

   Pages 139-156

10. Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems

    • Harold A. Mooney, Mary T. Kalin Arroyo, William J. Bond, Josep Canadell, Richard J. Hobbs, Sandra Lavorel et al.

    Pages 157-199

11. Deserts

    • Laura Foster Huenneke

    Pages 201-222

12. Temperate Forests of North and South America

    • Juan J. Armesto, R. Rozzi, J. Caspersen

    Pages 223-249

13. Tropical Forests

    • Rodolfo Dirzo

    Pages 251-276

14. Lakes

    • David M. Lodge

    Pages 277-313

15. Fish Diversity in Streams and Rivers

    • N. LeRoy Poff, Paul L. Angermeier, Scott D. Cooper, P. S. Lake, Kurt D. Fausch, Kirk O. Winemiller et al.

    Pages 315-349

16. Potential Biodiversity Change: Global Patterns and Biome Comparisons

    • Osvaldo E. Sala, F. Stuart Chapin III, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald

    Pages 351-367

17. Back Matter

    Pages 369-378

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The scientific community has voiced two general concerns about the future of the earth. Climatologists and oceanographers have focused on the changes in our physical environment -- changes in the climate, the oceans, and the chemistry of the air we breathe. Environmental biologists, on the other hand, have addressed issues of conservation and the extinction of species. There is increasing evidence that these two broad concerns are intertwined and mutually dependent. Past changes in biodiversity have both responded to and caused changes in Earth's environment. In its discussions of ten key terrestrial biomes and freshwater ecosystems, this volume uses our broad understanding of global environmental change to present the first comprehensive scenarios of biodiversity for the twenty-first century. Combining physical earth science with conservation biology, Future Scenarios of Global Biodiversity provides a starting point for regional assessments on all scales. The book will be of interest to those concerned with guiding research on the changing environment of the earth and with planning future policy, especially in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Convention.

• Artenvielfalt
• Biodiversity
• Biodiversität
• ecology
• global change
• globale Klimaveränderung
• air
• biodiversity
• biology
• climate
• conservation biology
• earth
• ecosystem
• environment
• environmental change
• ocean
• research
• Scale
• vegetation

From the reviews of the first edition:

"Chapin et al. provide the most insightful analysis and credible forecast on the future of the world biodiversity in response to the global environmental change. … The book examines the biodiversity scenarios for eight major biomes in the world … . Many have had high expectations for this book after reading a summary of it in Science. I think it likely that the scholarship and insights demonstrated by Chapin et al. will make it another highly cited volume, just like the IPCC report." (Ye Qi, Ecology, Vol. 83 (5), 2002)

"This is the latest volume in Springer’s well known and acclaimed Ecological Studies series and as such certainly lives up to the reputation of its predecessors. … The result is a treasure chest of information that will be of interest and food for thought for a wide variety of readers. … The quality of production is extremely high … . This volume is destined to become essential reading for any university course that includes consideration of biodiversity conservation, environmental change and ecosystem functioning." (Barry Meatyard, Biological Conservation, Issue 109, 2003)

• Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA

  F. Stuart Chapin

• Department of Ecology and IFEVA Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Buenos Aisres, Argentina

  Osvaldo E. Sala

• Departmento de Ingeniería Ambiental y Manejo de Recursos Naturales, Instituto Potosino de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, San Luis Potosí, SLP, México

  Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald

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