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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Water-Cycle Processes
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Decomposition and Soil Carbon Turnover
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About this book
Large-scale experimentation allows scientists to test the specific responses of ecosystems to changing environmental conditions. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory together with other Federal and University scientists conducted a large-scale climatic change experiment at the Walker Branch Watershed in Tennessee, a model upland hardwood forest in North America. This volume synthesizes mechanisms of forest ecosystem response to changing hydrologic budgets associated with climatic change drivers. The authors explain the implications of changes at both the plant and stand levels, and they extrapolate the data to ecosystem-level responses, such as changes in nutrient cycling, biodiversity and carbon sequestration. In analyzing data, they also discuss similarities and differences with other temperate deciduous forests.
Source data for the experiment has been archived by the authors in the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center (CDIAC) for future analysis and modeling by independent investigators.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: North American Temperate Deciduous Forest Responses to Changing Precipitation Regimes
Editors: Paul J. Hanson, Stan D. Wullschleger
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0021-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-00309-2Published: 12 May 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6506-1Published: 17 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0021-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 472
Topics: Plant Ecology, Forestry, Climate Change, Geoecology/Natural Processes