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內容簡介

Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in hydrology, carbon storage and exchange. Many of the human-induced pressures these regions are facing, e.g. fragmentation and deforestation, have been widely reported and well documented. However, there have been surprisingly few efforts to synthesize cutting-edge science in the area of tropical forest interaction with atmospheric change. At a time when our global atmosphere is undergoing a period of rapid change, both in terms of climate and in the cycling of essential elements such as carbon and nitrogen, a thorough and up-to-date analysis is now timely. This research level text, suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in plant ecology, tropical forestry, climate change science, and conservation biology, explores the vigorous contemporary debate as to how rapidly tropical forests may be affected by atmospheric change, and what this may mean for their future.

作者簡介

Yadvinder Malhi is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK, and Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of the Atmosphere and Biosphere, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Oliver Phillips is Reader in Tropical Ecology in the Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK, and Visiting Researcher at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA. He was awarded the British Ecological Society's 'Founder Prize' in 2004 for outstanding early career ecological research.

目次

Intro
Contents
Preface
Contributors
PART I: Contemporary atmospheric change in the tropics
1 Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in the climate of tropical forest regions
2 Twenty-first century atmospheric change and deforestation: potential impacts on tropical forests
3 Forest–climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes
PART II: Atmospheric change and ecosystem processes
4 Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests
5 Ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses to atmospheric change
6 Tropical forests dynamics in response to a CO[sub(2)]-rich atmosphere
7 The effects of drought on tropical forest ecosystems
PART III: Observations of contemporary change in tropical forests
8 Ecological responses of Amazonian forests to El Niño-induced surface fires
9 Late twentieth-century trends in tree-community composition in an Amazonian forest
10 Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in Amazon tree turnover
11 Late twentieth-century trends in the biomass of Amazonian forest plots
12 Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of South American forests
13 Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates
PART IV: The past and future of tropical forests
14 The longevity and resilience of the Amazon rainforest
15 Amazonian ecosystems and atmospheric change since the last glacial maximum
16 Modelling the past and future fate of the Amazonian forest
17 Climate change and speciation in neotropical seasonally dry forest plants
18 The prospects for tropical forests in the twenty-first-century atmosphere
References
Index