Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites

Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites PDF

Author: David Greenland

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-10-09

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0190287837

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This volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate change done at all the LTER sites. Global climate change is a central issue facing the world, which is being worked on by a very large number of scientists across a wide range of fields. The LTER sites hold some of the best available data measuring long term impacts and changes in the environment, and the research done at these sites has not previously been made widely available to the broader climate change research community. This book should appeal reasonably widely outside the ecological community, and because it pulls together information from all 20 research sites, it should capture the interest of virtually the entire LTER research community.

A Systems Analysis of the Global Boreal Forest

A Systems Analysis of the Global Boreal Forest PDF

Author: Herman H. Shugart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-03-07

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780521619738

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The world's boreal forests, which lie to the south of the Arctic, are considered to be the Earth's most significant terrestrial ecosystems. A panel of ecologists here provide a synthesis of the important patterns and processes which occur in boreal forests and review the principal mechanisms which control the forest's patterns.