Quaternary Ecology
A paleoecological perspective
(Sprache: Englisch)
The main aim of this volume is to provide an overview of the interdisciplinary area of quaternary ecology. Topics discussed include species migrations and invasions of pre-existing communities and the disassembly and reassembly of communities after major environmental change.
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The main aim of this volume is to provide an overview of the interdisciplinary area of quaternary ecology. Topics discussed include species migrations and invasions of pre-existing communities and the disassembly and reassembly of communities after major environmental change.
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Part 1 The palaeo-ecological perspective: ecological and evolutionary time scales; research design; principles of palaeo-ecological reconstruction; hierarchical relationships. Part 2 Dispersal, invasion, expansion and migrational strategies of populations: issues; dispersal; invasion; expansion of populations; migrational strategies. Part 3 Plant succession: issues; primary succession on glacial moraines; hydrosere succession; unidirectional successional changes; cycles of secondary succession; anthropogenic influences. Part 4 Gradients, continua and ecotones: issues; gradient analysis and the continuum concept; ecotones and ecoclines; community disassembly and reassembly. Part 5 Factors structuring communities: issues; climate and climatic change; climatic modulation of disturbance regimes; soil development, substrate control and geomorphic processes; biological interactions. Part 6 Ecosystem patterns and processes: issues; cycles of ecosystem development; hubbard brook/mirror lake watershed; natural and anthropogenic ecosystem changes in Switzerland; Mayan impact on watersheds in the Peten; palaeolimnological record of lake eutrophication, paludification and acidification; extinct ecosystems - the pleistocene Arctic steppe-tundra hypothesis. Part 7 Application of quaternary ecology to future global change: issues; global climatic change and the greenhouse effect; past analogues for effects of future global warming; carbon balance of Alaskan tundra and taiga ecosystems; computer simulations of long-term changes in forest composition and biomass; nature preserves and conservation of biological diversity.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: P. Delcourt
- 1991, 256 Seiten, Masse: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 0412297809
- ISBN-13: 9780412297809
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.1991
Sprache:
Englisch
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