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The Terrestrial Biosphere and Global Change: Implications for Natural and Managed Ecosystems

Brian Walker

This new synthesis summarizes the international research effort in the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) Core Project of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme in five major thematic areas: ecosystem physiology, ecosystem structure and composition, terrestrial production systems, global biogeochemistry, and ecological complexity (biodiversity). The editors present a summary of the integrated and interactive effects of global change on the terrestrial biosphere for four key regions of the world, as well as a projection of future trends in the terrestrial component of the global carbon cycle. The book also includes a section on tools developed or modified for global change research.

GenresClimatic changesEcologyclimate changeland-usebiological diversityatmospheric composition

439 pages

English edition · First published 1999 by Cambridge University Press · ISBN 9780521624299

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