The ecological consequences of global climate change
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The ecological consequences of global climate change
（Advances in ecological research / edited by J.B. Cragg, Vol. 22）
Academic Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The concepts and concerns regarding the global effects of a continued increase in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases have enjoyed a high visibility in newspapers and scientific journals. This concern is now being translated into big-science projects. These international projects aim to understand better the processes of climate and ecosystem changes and impacts and are being designed under the aegis of the World Climate Research Programme and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. Biological and climatic systems are intertwined in processes leading to impacts and feedbacks and so it has emerged that climatologists, atmospheric scientists, terrestrial and marine ecologists must collaborate in research programmes, else the bases of their future projections are incomplete. This special volume of "Advances in ecological research" brings together eight papers which propose and demonstrate the two major components of current climate change research, future prediction and interdisciplinary approach.
Table of Contents
- The climatic response to greenhouse gases, S.H. Schneider
- the development of regional climate scenarios and the ecological impact of greenhouse gas warming, G.M. Goodess and J.P. Palutikof
- the potential effect of climate change on agriculture and land use, M.L. Parry
- modelling the potential response of vegetation to global climate change, T.M. Smith et al
- effects of climatic change on the population dynamics of crop pests, M.E. Cammell and J.D. Knight
- responses of soil climate to change, J.M. Anderson
- predicting the responses of the coastal zone to global change, P.M. Holligan and W.A. Reiners
- the past as a key to the future - the use of paleoenvironmental understanding to predict the effects of man on the biosphere, J.M. Adams and F.I. Woodward.
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