Terrestrial Ecosystems In A Changing World

by Canadell, Josep G.; Pataki, Diane E.; Pitelka, Louis F.

• ISBN13: 9783540327295
• ISBN10: 3540327290
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-06
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Over 100 authors present 25 contributions on the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems including: key processes of the earth system such as the CO2 fertilization effect, shifts in disturbances and biome distribution, the saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink, and changes in functional biodiversity, ecosystem services such the production of wheat, pest control, and carbon storage in croplands, and sensitive regions in the world threaten by rapid changes in climate and land use such as high latitudes ecosystems, tropical forest in Southeast Asia, and ecosystems dominated by Monsoon climate. The book also explores new research developments on spatial thresholds and nonlinearities, the key role of urban development in global biogeochemical processes, and the integration of natural and social sciences to address complex problems of the human-environment system.

Author Biography

Josep CandadellScience officer of the global change and terrestrial ecosystems (GCTE) core project of IGBP at Standford University, and executive officer of GCTE at CSIRO-Australia. Currently, executive director of the Global Carbon Project, a joint project of IGBP, IHDP, WCRP, and DiversitasDiane PatakiFormer Scientific Officer for GCTE Focus 1, Ecosystem Physiology, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, USA. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, jointly in the Department of Earth System Science and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyLouis PitelkaChief Science Advisory for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Competitive Grants Program. Former Chair of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems core project of IGBP. Involved in research on the effects of global change on terrestrial ecosystems since 1990. Former Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Applications

Table of Contents

Global ecology, networks, and research synthesis	p. 1
CO[subscript 2] fertilization : when, where, how much?	p. 9
Ecosystem responses to warming and interacting global change factors	p. 23
Insights from stable isotopes on the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon cycle	p. 37
Effects of urban land-use change on biogeochemical cycles	p. 45
Saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink	p. 59
Functional diversity - at the crossroads between ecosystem functioning and environmental filters	p. 81
Linking plant invasions to global environmental change	p. 93
Plant biodiversity and responses to elevated carbon dioxide	p. 103
Predicting the ecosystem consequences of biodiversity loss : the biomerge framework	p. 113
Plant species migration as a key uncertainty in predicting future impacts of climate change on ecosystems : progress and challenges	p. 129
Understanding global fire dynamics by classifying and comparing spatial models of vegetation and fire	p. 139
Plant functional types : are we getting any closer to the holy grail?	p. 149
Spatial nonlinearities : cascading effects in the earth system	p. 165
Dynamic global vegetation modeling : quantifying terrestrial ecosystem responses to large-scale environmental change	p. 175
Wheat production systems and global climate change	p. 195
Pests under global change - meeting your future landlords?	p. 211
Greenhouse gas mitigation potential in agricultural soils	p. 227
Carbon and water tradeoffs in conversions to forests and shrublands	p. 237
Natural and human dimensions of land degradation in drylands : causes and consequences	p. 247
Southeast Asian fire regimes and land development policy	p. 261
Global change impacts on agroecosystems of Eastern China	p. 273
Terrestrial ecosystems in monsoon Asia : scaling up from shoot module to watershed	p. 285
Responses of high latitude ecosystems to global change : potential consequences for the climate system	p. 297
The future research challenge : the global land project	p. 313
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