Book ID: 56430
Solomon, Allen M. and Herman H. Shugart
Vegetation Dynamics and Global Change. 1993. figs.(some col.). tabs. XII,338 p. gr8vo. Cloth.
The response of forests to global climate changes is one of the mosthotly contested issues in the greenhouse effect debate. This volumeintroduces ecologists, environmental scientists, foresters and earthscientists to the models which describe the function of forests and their rate of change. Special attention is paid to the importance ofscale in global studies. The chapters range from physiological phenomenatypically measured at small scale to stand dynamics of forests,large-scale models of forest dynamics, the reconstruction of forestvegetation as a means of understanding current global change, and therole of forests in the global carbon cycle.