Climate Change - Geophysical Foundations and Ecological Effects

Blanco, Juan A.; Kheradmand, Houshang

Climate Change - Geophysical Foundations and Ecological Effects

Edited by Juan A. Blanco and Houshang Kheradmand

Abstract: This book offers an interdisciplinary view of the biophysical issues related to climate change. Climate change is a phenomenon by which the long-term averages of weather events (i.e. temperature, precipitation, wind speed, etc.) that define the climate of a region are not constant but change over time. There have been a series of past periods of climatic change, registered in historical or paleoecological records. In the first section of this book, a series of state-of-the-art research projects explore the biophysical causes for climate change and the techniques currently being used and developed for its detection in several regions of the world. The second section of the book explores the effects that have been reported already on the flora and fauna in different ecosystems around the globe. Among them, the ecosystems and landscapes in arctic and alpine regions are expected to be among the most affected by the change in climate, as they will suffer the more intense changes. The final section of this book explores in detail those issues.

JEL-codes: Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-953-307-419-1
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Are Debris Floods and Debris Avalanches Responding Univocally to Recent Climatic Change - A Case Study in the French Alps: Vincent Jomelli, Irina Pavlova, Marina Utasse, Marie Chenet, Delphine Grancher, Daniel Brunstein and Frederic Leone
Changes in the Composition of a Theoretical Freshwater Ecosystem Under Disturbances: Agota Dregelyi-Kiss and Levente Hufnagel
Chemistry-Climate Connections - Interaction of Physical, Dynamical, and Chemical Processes in Earth Atmosphere: Diego Loyola and Martin Dameris
Climate Change and Shifts in the Distribution of Moth Species in Finland, with a Focus on the Province of Kainuu: Juhani Itamies, Reima Leinonen and Benno Meyer-Rochow
Climate Change Impact on Quiver Trees in Arid Namibia and South Africa: Danni Guo, Renkuan Guo, Yanhong Cui, Guy F. Midgley, Res Altwegg and Christien Thiart
Climate Change Impacts on Atmospheric Circulation and Daily Precipitation in the Argentine Pampas Region: Olga C. Penalba and Maria Laura Bettolli
Climate Changes of the Recent Past in the South American Continent: Inferences Based on Analysis of Borehole Temperature Profiles: Valiya Hamza and Fabio Vieira
Climate Signals from 10Be Records of Marine Sediments Surrounded with Nearby a Continent: Kyeong Ja Kim and Seung-Il Nam
Climate-Driven Change of the Stand Age Structure in the Polar Ural Mountains: Valeriy Mazepa, Stepan Shiyatov and Nadezhda Mikhailovna Devi
Detecting of a Global and Caribbean Climate Change: Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, Joan Manuel Castro and Oswaldo Julca
Drought Analysis Based on SPI and SAD Curve for the Korean Peninsula Considering Climate Change: Hung Soo Kim, Minsoo Kyoung, Jaewon Kwak, Dukgil Kim and Soojun Kim
Effects and Consequences of Global Climate Change in the Carpathian Basin: Janos Rakonczai
Estimation of the Sea Level Rise by 2100 Resulting from Changes in the Surface Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Xavier Fettweis, Alexandre Belleflamme, Samuel Nicolay, Bruno Franco and Michel Erpicum
Glaciers Shrinking in Nepal Himalaya: Samjwal Bajracharya, Sudan Maharjan and Finu Shrestha
Global Heating Threatens the `I`iwi (Vestiaria coccinea), Currently a Common Bird of Upper Elevation Forests in Hawaii: Anthony Povilitis
Holocene Vegetation Responses to East Asian Monsoonal Changes in South Korea: Sangheon Yi
Mountains Under Climate and Global Change Conditions - Research Results in the Alps: Oliver Bender, Axel Borsdorf, Andrea Fischer and Johann StoÌˆtter
Possible Effects of Future Climate Changes on the Maximum Number of Generations of Anopheles in Monsoon Asia: Shunji Ohta and Takumi Kaga
Review of Long Term Macro-Fauna Movement by Multi-Decadal Warming Trends in the Northeastern Pacific: Christian Salvadeo, Daniel Lluch-Belda, Salvador Lluch-Cota and Milena Mercuri
Subglacial and Proglacial Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: Jacob C. Yde, Kai W. Finster and Teresa G. Barcena
Temporal Variability of Rain-Induced Floods in Southern Quebec: Ali A. Assani, Raphaelle Landry, Jean-Francois Quessy and Francis Clement
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Feedbacks Between Climate Change and Biogeochemical Cycles: Arne Winguth
The Use and Misuse of Climatic Gradients for Evaluating Climate Impact on Dryland Ecosystems - an Example for the Solution of Conceptual Problems: Marcelo Sternberg
Time Correlation Laws Inferred from Climatic Records: Long-Range Persistence and Alternative Paradigms: Maria Lanfredi, Tiziana Simoniello, Vincenzo Cuomo and Maria Francesca Macchiato
Why Do We Expect Glacier Melting to Increase Under Global Warming?: Roger James Braithwaite

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