This updated and expanded second edition of a much lauded work provides a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. The authors also investigate past, present and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the plane…
Plants and climate change
by Rozema, J., Aerts, Rien, Cornelissen, Johannes Hans C.
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Plants and Climate Change
by Rozema, Jelte, Aerts, Rien, Cornelissen, Hans
fromTasks for vegetation science
Plants and Climate Change
by Rozema, Jelte, Aerts, Rien, Cornelissen, Hans
fromTasks for vegetation science
Compared to many other regions of the world, Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability. Widespread poverty, an extensive disease burden and pockets of political instability across the continent has resulted in a low resilience and limited…
The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arc…
The reconstruction of past solar activity may be also complemented by the study of historical accounts. This book describes how these events can be used to obtain information on parameters as solar rotation (sunspot drawings), coronal structure (aurorae and total eclipses) and r…
New textbook providing a self-contained course on atmospheric dynamics for advanced students and researchers.
Mankin Mak's textbook provides a self-contained course on atmospheric dynamics. The first half is suitable for senior undergraduates, and develops the physical, dynamical and mathematical concepts at the fundamental level. The second half of the book is aimed at more advanced st…