Global warming and biological diversity
- eds.
This book is based on presentations given at the World Wildlife Fund's Conference on Consequences of the Greenhouse Effect for Biological Diverisity in 1988, and includes updated literature citations. The general topics covered in the book include the following: overview; summary of past responses of plants to climatic change; general ecological and physiological responses; ecosystems in 4 specific regions (arctic marine, Alaskan North Slope, NW US forests, and Mediterranean); global warming's implications for conservation. Ideas and data from many ecosystems and information about the relationships between biodiversity and climatic change are brought together with a balance of factual information and defensible scientific prognostication.
- OSTI ID:
- 6506974
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: From review by Paul Risser, Miami Univ., Oxford, OH, in BioScience, Vol. 43, No. 5 (May 1993)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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