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Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems

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Editors:
  1. Adam Markham

    1. Energy and Climate Program, World Wildlife Fund, USA

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-3
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  2. A Climate Change Scenario for the Tropics

    • Mike Hulme, David Viner
    Pages 5-36

  3. Tropical Forests under the Climates of the Last 30,000 Years

    • J. R. Flenley
    Pages 37-57

  4. Potential Changes in Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, and Extreme Rainfall Events as a Result of Climate Change

    • K. Walsh, A. B. Pittock
    Pages 59-73

  5. Possible Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Tropical Forest Hydrology

    • M. Bonell
    Pages 75-132

  6. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Fire Regimes in the Tropics Based on MAGICC and a GISS GCM-Derived Lightning Model

    • Johann Georg Goldammer, Colin Price
    Pages 133-156

  7. Tropical Forests in a CO2-Rich World

    • Christian Körner
    Pages 157-175

  8. Tropical Forests in a Future Climate: Changes in Biological Diversity and Impact on the Global Carbon Cycle

    • F. A. Bazzaz
    Pages 177-196

  9. The Potential Effects of Elevated CO2 and Climate Change on Tropical Forest Soils and Biogeochemical Cycling

    • Whendee L. Silver
    Pages 197-221

  10. Relating Tree Physiology to Past and Future Changes in Tropical Rainforest Tree Communities

    • Thomas A. Kursar
    Pages 223-239

  11. Responses of Tropical Trees to Rainfall Seasonality and Its Long-Term Changes

    • Rolf Borchert
    Pages 241-253

  12. Deep Soil Moisture Storage and Transpiration in Forests and Pastures of Seasonally-Dry Amazonia

    • Peter H. Jipp, Daniel C. Nepstad, D. K. Cassel, C. Reis de Carvalho
    Pages 255-272

  13. Ecological Implications of Changes in Drought Patterns: Shifts in Forest Composition in Panama

    • Richard Condit
    Pages 273-287

  14. Potential Impact of Climatic Change on Tropical Rain Forest Seedlings and Forest Regeneration

    • T. C. Whitmore
    Pages 289-298

  15. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Asian Forests through an Influence on Phenology

    • Richard T. Corlett, James V. Lafrankie Jr.
    Pages 299-313

  16. Possible Effects of Climate Change on Plant/Herbivore Interactions in Moist Tropical Forests

    • Phyllis D. Coley
    Pages 315-332

  17. Global Climate Change and Tropical Forest Genetic Resources

    • Kamaljit S. Bawa, S. Dayanandan
    Pages 333-345

  18. A Model of Conductive Heat Flow in Forest Edges and Fragmented Landscapes

    • Jay R. Malcolm
    Pages 347-362

  19. Vulnerability of Island Tropical Montane Cloud Forests to Climate Change, with Special Reference to East Maui, Hawaii

    • Lloyd L. Loope, Thomas W. Giambelluca
    Pages 363-377

  20. Vulnerabilities of Tropical Forests to Climate Change: The Significance of Resident Epiphytes

    • David H. Benzing
    Pages 379-400
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About this book

Climate change represents one of the most alarming long-term threats to ecosystems the world over. This new collection of papers provides, for the first time, an overview of the potentially serious impact that climate change may have on tropical forests. The authors, a multi-disciplinary group of leading experts in climatology, forestry, ecology and conservation biology, present a state-of-knowledge snapshot of how tropical forests are likely to react to the changes being wrought on our planet's atmosphere and climate.
Tropical forests represent extraordinary harbours for biological diversity, and yet as deforestation and degradation continue apace, they are under greater pressure from human impacts than ever before. Climate change adds yet another threat to these valuable ecosystems, and this volume demonstrates just how significant a problem this may really be. The authors identify certain types of forest, including tropical montane cloud forest that may be particularly vulnerable. They also show the strong likelihood of global warming aggravating problems in already fragmented forest areas.

Reviews

`... it will be of interest to many working on the ecology and management of these forests ...'
Progress in Environmental Science, 1:4 (1999)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Energy and Climate Program, World Wildlife Fund, USA

    Adam Markham

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems

  • Editors: Adam Markham

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2730-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5124-5Published: 31 July 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5046-5Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2730-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 463

  • Topics: Applied Ecology, Nature Conservation, Atmospheric Sciences, Forestry, Plant Ecology

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