Band 139
Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change
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Ecological Studies
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 241.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
27.09.2012
Herausgeber
Robert A. Mickler + weitereVerlag
Springer UsSeitenzahl
581
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.5/3.6 cm
Gewicht
978 g
Auflage
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4612-7064-5
In the Global Change Research Act of 1990, "global change" is defined as "changes in the global environment (including alterations in climate, land productivity, oceans or other water resources, atmospheric chemistry, and ecological systems) that may alter the capacity of the Earth to sustain life. " For the purposes of this book, we interpret the definition of global change broadly to include physical and chemical environmental changes that are likely to affect the productivity and health of forest ecosystems over the long term. Important environmental changes in the Northern United States include steadily increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, tropospheric ozone, wet and dry deposition of nitrogen and sulfur compounds, acidic precipitation and clouds, and climate variability. These environmental factors interact in complex ways to affect plant physiological functions and soil processes in the context of forest landscapes derived from centuries of intensive land use and natural disturbances. Research in the North has begun to unravel some key questions about how environmental changes will impact the productivity and health of forest ecosystems, species distributions and abundance, and associations of people and forests. Initial research sponsored by the USDA Forest Service under the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was focused on basic process-level understanding of tree species and forest v VI Preface ecosystem responses to environmental stress. Chemical pollution stresses received equal emphasis with climate change concerns.
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