Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes The Spatial and Evolutionary Responses of Terrestrial Biota - Huntley, Brian; Cramer, Wolfgang; Morgan, Alan V.; Prentice, Honor C.; Allen, Judy R.M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997)
Section 1 - Past environmental changes - the late Quaternary -- Past environmental changes: Characteristic features of Quaternary climate variations -- Modelling late-Quaternary palaeoclimates and palaeobiomes -- Section 2 - Spatial responses to past changes -- Spatial response of plant taxa to climate change: A palaeoecological perspective -- The response of New Zealand forest diversity to Quaternary climates -- Character of rapid vegetation and climate change during the late-glacial in southernmost South America -- Holocene tree migration rates objectively determined from fossil pollen data -- Flora and vegetation of the Quaternary temperate stages of NW Europe: Evidence for large-scale range changes -- The response of beetles to Quaternary climate changes -- Fossil Coleoptera assemblages in the Great Lakes region of North America: Past changes and future prospects -- The response of Coleoptera to late-Quaternary climate changes: Evidence from north-east France -- The spatial response of mammals to Quaternary climate changes -- The spatial response of non-marine Mollusca to past climate changes -- Section 3 - Mechanisms enabling spatial responses -- Reinterpreting the fossil pollen record of Holocene tree migration -- Mechanisms of vegetation response to climate change -- Plant invasions: Early and continuing expressions of global change -- Invading into an ecologically non-uniform area -- Migratory birds and climate change -- Tree demography and migration: What stand-level measurements can tell about the response of forests to climate change -- Structural changes in the forest-tundra ecotone: A dynamic process -- Modelling the structural response of vegetation to climate change -- Section 4 - Evolutionary responses to past changes -- Species' habitats in relation to climate, evolution, migration and conservation -- The evolutionary response of vertebrates to Quaternary environmental change -- The weight of internal and external constraints on Pupilla muscorum L. (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) during the Quaternary in Europe -- Late Quaternary extinction of large mammals in Northern Eurasia: A new look at the Siberian contribution -- Section 5 - Mechanisms enabling evolutionary responses -- Variation in plant populations: History and chance or ecology and selection? -- Genetics and adaptation to climate change: A case study of trees -- Climate change and the reproductive biology of higher plants -- Space and time as axes in intraspecific phylogeography -- Migratory birds: Simulating adaptation to environmental change -- Terrestrial Invertebrates and climate change: Physiological and life-cycle adaptations -- Section 6 - Predicted future environmental changes and simulated responses -- Forecast changes in the global environment: What they mean in terms of ecosystem responses on different time-scales -- The biogeographic consequences of forecast changes in the global environment: Individual species' potential range changes -- Gap models, forest dynamics and the response of vegetation to climate change -- Natural migration rates of trees: Global terrestrial carbon cycle implications -- Seasonal features of global net primary productivity models for the terrestrial biosphere -- General discussion and workshop conclusions -- Predicting the response of terrestrial biota to future environmental changes -- List of Workshop Participants.
Keywords: Ecology .; Atmospheric sciences; Geoecology; Environmental geology; Nature conservation; Ecology; Atmospheric Sciences; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Nature Conservation