Editors:
- Brings the latest science on impacts of global change on a number of critical components of the terrestrial biosphere-human environment such as the carbon cycle, urban systems, and wheat-rice crop systems among others
- Emphasis is placed on impacts of atmospheric, climate and land use change
- Discusses in various chapters the future challenges and the scientific frameworks to address them
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Global Change - The IGBP Series (GLOBALCHANGE)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global change and the Earth System
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Carbon and Water Cycles in the 21st Century
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Front Matter
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Changing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
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Front Matter
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Landscapes under Changing Disturbance Regimes
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Front Matter
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Managing Ecosystem Services
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Front Matter
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About this book
Over 100 authors present 25 contributions on the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems including:
- key processes of the earth system such as the CO2 fertilization effect, shifts in disturbances and biome distribution, the saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink, and changes in functional biodiversity,
- ecosystem services such the production of wheat, pest control, and carbon storage in croplands, and
- sensitive regions in the world threaten by rapid changes in climate and land use such as high latitudes ecosystems, tropical forest in Southeast Asia, and ecosystems dominated by Monsoon climate.
The book also explores new research developments on spatial thresholds and nonlinearities, the key role of urban development in global biogeochemical processes, and the integration of natural and social sciences to address complex problems of the human-environment system.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This volume integrates 25 contributors prepared by over 100 authors from around the world working under the auspices of the Programme. … this book brings the IGBP research on terrestrial ecosystems to a wide scientific audience, and includes the latest developments and achievements in this area. … The introductory and summary chapters are very valuable, rendering the book accessible to a general audience, not only to specialists. The book can also be highly recommended to the broad scientific community interested in global change." (Urszula Somorowska, Papers on Global Change, Issue 15, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
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Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Canberra, Australia
Josep G. Canadell
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Department of Earth System Science and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA
Diane E. Pataki
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Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, USA
Louis F. Pitelka
About the editors
Josep Candadell
Science officer of the global change and terrestrial ecosystems (GCTE) core project of IGBP at Standford University, and executive officer of GCTE at CSIRO-Australia. Currently, executive director of the Global Carbon Project, a joint project of IGBP, IHDP, WCRP, and Diversitas
Diane Pataki
Former Scientific Officer for GCTE Focus 1, Ecosystem Physiology, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, USA. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, jointly in the Department of Earth System Science and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Louis Pitelka
Chief Science Advisory for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Competitive Grants Program. Former Chair of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems core project of IGBP. Involved in research on the effects of global change on terrestrial ecosystems since 1990. Former Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Applications
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World
Editors: Josep G. Canadell, Diane E. Pataki, Louis F. Pitelka
Series Title: Global Change - The IGBP Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32730-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-32729-5Published: 27 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06928-4Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-32730-1Published: 10 January 2007
Series ISSN: 1619-2435
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 336
Number of Illustrations: 78 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biogeosciences, Climate Change, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Soil Science & Conservation, Atmospheric Sciences, Physical Geography