Tropical Forests and Climate

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Tropical Deforestation and Climatic Change: The Conceptual Background

   • Norman Myers

   Pages 1-2

3. Tropical Forests: Present Status and Future Outlook

   • Norman Myers

   Pages 3-32

4. A Commentary on: Tropical Forests: Present Status and Future Outlook

   • Ghillean T. Prance

   Pages 33-35

5. Palaeoecological Background: Neotropics

   • Thomas Van Der Hammen

   Pages 37-47

6. A Commentary on: Palaeoecological Background: Neotropics

   • Paul Colinvaux

   Pages 49-51

7. A Synopsis of Climatic and Vegetational Change in Southeast Asia

   • Lawrence R. Heaney

   Pages 53-61

8. A Commentary on: A Synopsis of Climatic and Vegetational Change in Southeast Asia

   • Peter H. Raven

   Pages 63-64

9. History of Climate and Forests in Tropical Africa During the Last 8 Million Years

   • A. C. Hamilton, D. Taylor

   Pages 65-78

10. The African Rain Forest Vegetation and Palaeoenvironments During Late Quaternary

    • Jean Maley

    Pages 79-98

11. Tropical Deforestation and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

    • R. A. Houghton

    Pages 99-118

12. A Commentary on: Tropical Deforestation and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

    • L. D. Danny Harvey

    Pages 119-121

13. Tropical Deforestation: Albedo and the Surface-Energy Balance

    • John H. C. Gash, W. James Shuttleworth

    Pages 123-133

14. A Commentary on: Tropical Deforestation: Albedo and the Surface-Energy Balance

    • Ann Henderson-Sellers

    Pages 135-137

15. Effects of Tropical Deforestation on Global and Regional Atmospheric Chemistry

    • Michael Keller, Daniel J. Jacob, Steven C. Wofsy, Robert C. Harriss

    Pages 139-158

16. A Commentary on: Effects of Tropical Deforestation on Global and Regional Atmospheric Chemistry

    • Peter M. Vitousek, Pamela A. Matson

    Pages 159-162

17. Probable Impact of Deforestation on Hydrological Processes

    • V. M. Meher-Homji

    Pages 163-173

18. A Commentary on: Probable Impact of Deforestation on Hydrological Processes

    • Robert E. Dickinson

    Pages 175-175

19. Possible Climatic Impacts of Tropical Deforestation

    • Eneas Salati, Carlos A. Nobre

    Pages 177-196

20. A Commentary on: Possible Climatic Impacts of Tropical Deforestation

    • P. R. Rowntree, J. Lean

    Pages 197-199

Tropical forests affect climate, and the removal of the forests will change climate. Or not?
This book discusses basic questions on how far, if at all, tropical deforestation leads to climatic change. The question of this uncertainty is particularly addressed. One important consequence of the uncertainties of whether deforestation affects climate is how scientific findings best illuminate the policy-making process.

• Albedo
• Atmospheric chemistry
• Deforestation
• Greenhouse effect
• Rain
• climate change
• forest
• vegetation

• Headington, Oxford, UK

  Norman Myers

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