Vegetation Dynamics And Global Change

• Preface. List of contributors. Part one: Introduction: Global change - H H Shugart; Biospheric implications of global environmental change - A M Solomon and W P Cramer; Part two: Biotic responses to global environmental change: Carbon dioxide fertilization: the great uncertainty in future vegetation development - C Korner; Leaf responses to the environment and extrapolation to larger scales - F I Woodward; The prediction and physiological significance of tree height - A D Friend; Uncertainties in the terrestrial carbon cycle - W M Post; Atmosphere/vegetation coupling - P Martin; Part three: Measuring global vegetation change: Monitoring vegetation change using satellite data - B N Rock, D L Skole and B J Choudhury; Global geographic information systems and databases for vegetation change studies - D L Skole, B Moore III and W H Chomentowski; Assessing impacts of climate change on vegetation using climate classification systems - W P Cramer and R Leemans; Vegetation biodiversity and classification systems - G Grabherr and S Kojima; Part four: Modeling global vegetation change: Modeling large-scale vegetation dynamics - I C Prentice, R A Monserud, T M Smith and W R Emanuel; Plant functional types - T M Smith, H H Shugart, F I Woodward and P J Barton; Vegetational functional classification systems as approaches to predicting and quantifying global vegetation change - J P Grime; Modeling crop responses to environmental change - C Rosenzweig; Concluding comments; Index.

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