01847nam a2200265Ia 4500 TVU_13103 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0198567065 9780198567066 eng 551.6913 Y600 Tropical forests & global atmospheric change edited by Yadvinder Malhi, Oliver L. Phillips Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2005 xv, 260 p. ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 26 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-249) and index 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 Climatic changes; Forest ecology; Forest microclimatology; Biodiversity edited by Yadvinder Malhi; Oliver L. Phillips Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh