Vegetation Dynamics and Global Change

by Allen M. Solomon and Herman H. Shugart

Book Overview

The response of forests to global climate change is one of the most hotly contested issues in the greenhouse effect debate. Much effort is being devoted to the construction of models which describe the function of the forests and their rate of change. There are a wealth of techniques available to project large-scale vegetation patterns, all based on different underlying models that contain fundamental biological and ecological mechanisms. Vegetation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0412036819
• ISBN13: 9780412036811
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"