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Although people have been altering earth's landscapes to some extent for tens of thousands of years, humankind today is causing massive changes to the planet. Such widespread environmental change is accompanied by accelerating rates of species extinction. In this book, noted ecologist H. H. Shugart presents important ecological concepts through entertaining animal parables. He tells the stories of particular birds and mammals-the packrat, ivory-billed woodpecker, penguin, dingo, European rabbit, and others-and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or explosions of species populations. Change is the root of many planetary problems, but it is also an intrinsic feature of our living planet. Shugart explores past environmental change, discusses the non-existence of a "balance of Nature," and documents how human alterations have affected plants, soils, and animals. He looks with hope toward a future in which thoughtful people learn-and use-ecological science to protect the landscapes upon which terrestrial creatures depend.

Animals --- Ecology. --- Global environmental change. --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Change --- Ecology --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Animals, Legends and stories of --- Climatic changes

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Global environmental change - Mathematical models.

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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.

Climatic changes --- Forest ecology --- Vegetation and climate --- Vegetation dynamics --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Forestry --- Congresses. --- Mathematical models --- Forest Ecology. --- 502.53 --- 581.52 --- 630*58 --- Dynamics of vegetation --- Acclimatization (Plants) --- Plant communities --- Forest ecosystems --- Forests and forestry --- Ecology --- 630*58 Surveying and mapping. Aerial survey. Forest inventories --- Surveying and mapping. Aerial survey. Forest inventories --- 581.52 Environment and habitat of plants --- Environment and habitat of plants --- 502.53 The unbalanced or disturbed nature complex as a whole. Global change --- The unbalanced or disturbed nature complex as a whole. Global change --- Plant bioclimatology --- Plant biometeorology --- Plants --- Plants and climate --- Bioclimatology --- Congresses --- Mathematical models&delete& --- Mathematical models&delete&&delete& --- Climatic factors --- Effect of climate on --- Effect of climatic changes on

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ECO Ecology

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Forest ecology --- Plant succession --- Succession, Plant --- Ecological succession --- Vegetation dynamics --- Congresses --- Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Forestry