TY - BOOK ID - 67505293 TI - Vegetation dynamics & global change. AU - Shugart, Herman H. AU - Solomon, Allen M. PY - 1993 SN - 0412036711 0412036819 PB - New York Chapman & Hall DB - UniCat KW - Climatic changes KW - Forest ecology KW - Vegetation and climate KW - Vegetation dynamics KW - Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Forestry KW - Congresses. KW - Mathematical models KW - Forest Ecology. KW - 502.53 KW - 581.52 KW - 630*58 KW - Dynamics of vegetation KW - Acclimatization (Plants) KW - Plant communities KW - Forest ecosystems KW - Forests and forestry KW - Ecology KW - 630*58 Surveying and mapping. Aerial survey. Forest inventories KW - Surveying and mapping. Aerial survey. Forest inventories KW - 581.52 Environment and habitat of plants KW - Environment and habitat of plants KW - 502.53 The unbalanced or disturbed nature complex as a whole. Global change KW - The unbalanced or disturbed nature complex as a whole. Global change KW - Plant bioclimatology KW - Plant biometeorology KW - Plants KW - Plants and climate KW - Bioclimatology KW - Congresses KW - Mathematical models&delete& KW - Mathematical models&delete&&delete& KW - Climatic factors KW - Effect of climate on KW - Effect of climatic changes on UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67505293 AB - This book is a valuable resource on the various aspects of modelling the response of vegetation to global climate change. Integrating current knowledge and setting a precedent for governmental policies, these models are prefaced by an introduction that reviews the history of global climate change and atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements. Students and professionals in ecology, environmental science, biomathematics, forestry, and the earth sciences will be intrigued by the sophisticated mathematical and computational tools used to predict the rate of change in the world's forests. A review of biotic responses to global change is followed by discussions of how global climate change may be measured and of modeling vegetation response to this change. Within these topics, the authors elaborate upon specific relevant issues and describe tools and databases available for research at global scales, while remaining consistent with the overall focus of the response and future distribution of vegetation under a changed climate and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. ER -