Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes The Spatial and Evolutionary Responses of Terrestrial Biota /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
1997.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 1997. |
| Colección: | Nato ASI Subseries I:, Global Environmental Change,
47 |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60599-4 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.