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Author : Johannes Barwold Salomons
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Paleoecology of Volcanic Soils in the Colombian Central Cordillera written by Johannes Barwold Salomons and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth S. Vrba
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300063482
Total Pages : 567 pages
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Download or read book Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins written by Elisabeth S. Vrba and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the relationship between climatic and biotic evolution, this work focuses on how climatic change during the last 15 million years - especially the last three million - has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events.
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Total Pages : 642 pages
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Download or read book La Cordillera Central colombiana transecto Parque los Nevados written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Cochrane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540773819
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Tropical Fire Ecology written by Mark Cochrane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tropics are home to most of the world’s biodiversity and are currently the frontier for human settlement. Tropical ecosystems are being converted to agricultural and other land uses at unprecedented rates. Land conversion and maintenance almost always rely on fire and, because of this, fire is now more prevalent in the tropics than anywhere else on Earth. Despite pervasive fire, human settlement and threatened biodiversity, there is little comprehensive information available on fire and its effects in tropical ecosystems. Tropical deforestation, especially in rainforests, has been widely documented for many years. Forests are cut down and allowed to dry before being burned to remove biomass and release nutrients to grow crops. However, fires do not always stop at the borders of cleared forests. Tremendously damaging fires are increasingly spreading into forests that were never evolutionarily prepared for wild fires. The largest fires on the planet in recent decades have occurred in tropical forests and burned millions of hectares in several countries. The numerous ecosystems of the tropics have differing levels of fire resistance, resilience or dependence. At present, there is little appreciation of the seriousness of the wild fire situation in tropical rainforests but there is even less understanding of the role that fire plays in the ecology of many fire adapted tropical ecosystems, such as savannas, grasslands and other forest types.
Author : J. Goldammer
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034872569
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Tropical Forests in Transition written by J. Goldammer and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In evolutionary time scales natural disturbances have affected the vegetation on Earth. During the Quaternary the forest biomes of the tropics were subjected to manifold disturbances. Climate changes and climate oscillations were associated with changing precipitation and drought regimes, flooding, siltation, landslides, etc. The prehistorical forest was also influenced by the effects of large wildlife populations. Large-scale catastrophies in the forest biomes were mainly caused by abiotic environmental alterations, the small-scale disturbances were and still are related to both biotic and abiotic processes. Both the large-and the small-scale disturbances have played a significant role in shaping distribution, dynamics, structure and composition of the paleoforest. After the expansion of hominids and early humans, and later, by modern humans, the anthropogenic influences on the tropical forest began to overlap natural disturbances. Today's anthropogenic impacts on the tropical forests differ qualitatively and quanitatively from the natural disturbances. The speed of tropical deforestation and savannization is dramatically increasing. The physical and chemical impacts of forest conversion and biomass burning add to other anthropogenic influences on the atmosphere and climate. The expected anthropogenic climate change will also have considerable impacts on the tropical flora and fauna. The book on "Tropical Forests in Transition" synthesizes information on changing environmental conditions and human impacts on the tropical forest by looking back to the paleoecology, analyzing the impact of modern human populations and modeling the future of the tropical forest in a changing environment. The aim of the book is to strengthen multidisciplinary thinking in disturbance ecology.
Author : Arie S. Issar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401736596
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change written by Arie S. Issar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the greenhouse effect emerged as a predictable threat, necessitating the evalu ation of its future impact on the environment in the various parts of the globe, interest in the climate changes during the Holocene has gained momentum. The background can be summarized by the sentence: The past is a key to the future. As a matter of fact, this sentence is in the opposite direction, on the dimension of time, to the principle adopted by the founders of the science of geology. They proposed that geological processes in the present should be used as a key for understanding the past. Another reason for the interest in the history of the climate of the Holocene can be described as the renaissance of a modified deterministic approach to the inter relation between physical and human geography. This relates in the first place to the fact that various investigations, especially as carried out by Hubert Lamb, showed that the sequence of climate changes previously suggested by Blytt and Sernander for Europe and adopted by most Holocene climatologists was far too general, and that there were more climate changes during recent history than previously taken account of. In the second place it was found out that these changes had had an impact on the history of human communities. Thus, one can conclude that once the taboo on geographical determinism (i. e.
Author : Adam Markham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401727309
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems written by Adam Markham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change represents one of the most alarming long-term threats to ecosystems the world over. This new collection of papers provides, for the first time, an overview of the potentially serious impact that climate change may have on tropical forests. The authors, a multi-disciplinary group of leading experts in climatology, forestry, ecology and conservation biology, present a state-of-knowledge snapshot of how tropical forests are likely to react to the changes being wrought on our planet's atmosphere and climate. Tropical forests represent extraordinary harbours for biological diversity, and yet as deforestation and degradation continue apace, they are under greater pressure from human impacts than ever before. Climate change adds yet another threat to these valuable ecosystems, and this volume demonstrates just how significant a problem this may really be. The authors identify certain types of forest, including tropical montane cloud forest that may be particularly vulnerable. They also show the strong likelihood of global warming aggravating problems in already fragmented forest areas.
Author : Frank Chambers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415276580
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Climate Change written by Frank Chambers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers is introduced by an overview of research into climate change. Each volume contains an introductory commentary presenting the major strengths and achievements of the papers, their weaknesses and limitations and points to follow-up work.
Author : P. L. DeBoer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444304046
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Orbital Forcing and Cyclic Sequences written by P. L. DeBoer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classically orbital cycles have been recognized in pelagic and lacustrine sequences characterized by quiet sedimentation, not disturbed by tectonics. Hoiwever, there is now increasing recognition that orbital cycles do influence climate and oceanography in general terms. There is also increasing acceptance of the possibility at least that the effect should be felt over large parts of the Earth's surface and that orbital cycles may well leave signs in other sedimentary environments that are commonly considered to be dominated by tectonics and eustasy. Containing thirty-one papers from a symposium held at the International Sedimentological Congress in Nottingham in 1990, this volume spans a range of topics from the astronomical theory behind orbital forcing, to field studies dealing with a broad range of sedimentary environments, and to modelling and simulation. State-of-the-art research papers. International expert authorship. The latest research in the highly topical subject of orbital forcing.
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Total Pages : 1504 pages
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Download or read book Bibliography and Index of Geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. Myers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401736081
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Tropical Forests and Climate written by N. Myers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical forests affect climate, and the removal of the forests will change climate. Or not? This book discusses basic questions on how far, if at all, tropical deforestation leads to climatic change. The question of this uncertainty is particularly addressed. One important consequence of the uncertainties of whether deforestation affects climate is how scientific findings best illuminate the policy-making process.
Author : Peter Kuhry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book Palaeobotanical-palaeoecological Studies of Tropical High Andean Peatbog Sections (Cordillera Oriental, Colombia) written by Peter Kuhry and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter W. Stahl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521444866
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics written by Peter W. Stahl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explore problems faced by archaeologists in the difficult conditions of the lowland American tropics.
Author : Thomas van der Hammen
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Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book La Cordillera Central Colombiana Transecto Parque Los Nevados written by Thomas van der Hammen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Flenley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540488421
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change written by John Flenley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-20 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. The book’s goal is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. It aims to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet.
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Total Pages : 852 pages
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Download or read book Annales de géomorphologie written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen D. Davis
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Total Pages : 584 pages
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Download or read book Centres of Plant Diversity: The Americas written by Stephen D. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
